We believe that clothes — and how you make them — can make a difference.

Since 1853, we’ve been obsessed with innovation to meet people’s needs. We invented the first blue jean. And we reinvented khaki pants. We pioneered labor and environmental guidelines for our manufacturing partners. And we work to build sustainability into everything we do.

A company doesn’t last more than 160 years by standing still. It endures by reinventing itself, striving to delight its consumers, winning in the marketplace and byremaining true to its values.

We employ thousands of people around the world to support our great brands: Levi’s®, Dockers®, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.™ and Denizen®. Our employees are committed to innovation, creativity and collaboration. Put simply, if you’re looking for a new opportunity, this is a great place to grow your career.

About the Job

We are looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to own all our preproduction) environments and infrastructure. This engineer is an excellent opportunity for someone who loves retail and e-commerce and has a passion for delivering best-in-class experiences for consumers alongside a passion for empowering engineering teams to deliver value to their customers rapidly and reliably.

Job Summary: 

As Lead Engineer – Preproduction Environments & Infrastructure, you'll be the conductor orchestrating the entire environment management lifecycle for our preproduction environments, including development, testing, usability, performance, and chaos testing environments. Your mission is to ensure smooth, timely, and high-quality environment setups across the enterprise. You'll be at the helm, coordinating environment configurations, security improvements, hardware upgrades, and more. You will design and deliver an Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration-as-code strategy that minimizes configuration drift between production and nonproduction environments, and maximizes the usability of these environments for your customers. Your role is pivotal in collaborating with developers, testers, and engineering management to enhance our software engineering processes and practices, all while embodying the spirit of innovation and creativity that defines our denim lifestyle.

Key Responsibilities:

Environment Planning and Coordination:You'll be the go-to person for coordinating environment setup and efforts across multiple teams and systems, ensuring that our preproduction environments are configured as close to production as possible, healthy and reliable.You’ll design and implement environments which are flexible and adaptable to changing requirements and priorities.

Infrastructure-as-Code Environment Management: You'llplan and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in parallel with your peers in production environmentmanagement to ensure consistency and repeatability. You’ll research and implement industry-leading environment management tools and systems. In growing our capabilities to deliver better software faster, you’ll make a direct impact on our business capacity to thrill our fans.

Continuous Improvement: You’ll work with our teams to mature the system towards Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery, develop scripts and automation tools, and ensure seamless integration and deployment of environment setups. As you lead improvement in our environment management processes, you’ll make direct impacts on our entire technology organization’s capability to deliver value at scale.

Collaboration and Teamwork: You’ll be a visible and valuable member of the teams delivering software to our customers. Actively participate in CAB meetings, environment planning meetings, maintain an environment repository, and manage key information like build and environment procedures, dependencies, and notification lists. Mentor development squads to support squad-led environment setups to increase the flow of ideas to our customers.

Career and Team Development: You’ll stay ahead of the curve by researching and implementing industry-leading environment and configuration management methodologies, tools, and technologies, and apply them to our current needs.

About You:

Experienced Lead Engineer with 10+ years' of Testing experince and 5+ years’ experience in project management andsoftware environment management.

10 years+ experience with Kubernetes, Docker or other containerization tools

Demonstrated experience and success using Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration as Code systems.

Strong curiosity and exploration in the use of GenAI and Agentic AI to partner with human engineers in getting work done in better ways

Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools.

2 years+ experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

2 years+ experience using YAML, JSON or similar languages

Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle in Agile, DevOps, and Lean Software environments.

Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion.

Demonstrated effective system leadership and analytical skills.

Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must.

Benefits
We put a lot of thought into our programs to provide you with a benefits package that matters. Whether it is for medical care, taking time off, improving your health or planning for retirement, we've got you covered.

Here's a small snapshot:

Complimentary preventive health check-up for you & your spouse
OPD coverage
Best in class leave plan including paternity & family care leaves
Counselling sessions to prioritize mental well-being
Exclusive discount vouchers on Levi’s products

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to empowering individuals from all walks of life to achieve their professional goals with us, regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, or genetic information. We actively seek and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including those with disabilities, and offer accommodations throughout the selection process upon request.

To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

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