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Sr IT Manager Performance Engineering

at Ulta Beauty

📍 Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States Onsite 💰 $202K – $203K USD / year Posted April 02, 2026
Salary $202K – $203K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 5+ years
Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, Engineering (any), or related
Category DevOps & SRE

Senior IT Leadership role focused on establishing and governing Ulta Beauty's performance engineering operating model. Responsible for strategy, multi-year enablement, and cross-functional leadership to deliver reliable, scalable digital experiences for guests and associates.

  • Define and govern the performance engineering roadmap
  • Design and deploy the performance engineering operating model
  • Leverage metrics and storytelling to visualize performance and stability
  • Engage across Architecture, Development, Operations, Cloud and Infrastructure teams
  • Hire, coach and mentor team; drive continuous improvement

Oversees design and implementation of performance requirements analysis, metrics and SLOs; drives cross-functional architecture evaluation and testing within cloud-native, scalable environments; leads continuous improvement via governance and maturity models.

The ideal candidate is a senior IT manager with 5+ years of IT management experience, strong background in performance engineering and SRE, who can define roadmaps, govern performance standards, and lead cross-functional teams in a retail environment.

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMISCISEngineering (any)or relatedFive (5) years of IT management experience delivering non-functional requirements and performance and stability engineering enterprise wide for a medium to large company with dozens of systems and a $100M+ annual technology investment roadmapExperience as people manager with track record of building a teamgrowing individual careersand delivering technology results that impact the bottom lineExperience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Observability/APM toolsCloud native application architectures and cloud infrastructureExperience in retail or other high-volume environmentPerformance management encompassing applicationapiand infrastructure performance testingExperience communicating across teams including both engineering and leadership teamsExperience with resource and scope estimation for both small and large project involving both internal and consulting resources
Performance EngineeringSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)Observability/APM toolsCloud native architectureCloud infrastructureNon-functional requirementsSLOsMetricsArchitecture evaluationRequirements analysisRoot cause analysisGovernance frameworkMaturity modelEnablement roadmapmulti-year roadmapenterprise widestakeholder managementleadership
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Observability/APM toolsCloud native application architecturescloud infrastructurePerformance testingNon-functional requirementsSLOsMetricsArchitecture evaluationRequirements analysisroot cause analysisgovernance frameworkmulti-year enablement roadmapmaturity modelas-is and to-beenterprise wide
LeadershipStakeholder managementCommunicationMentoringTeam leadershipProblem solving
Industry Retail
Job Function Lead performance engineering strategy, governance, and delivery across Ulta Beauty's technology landscape to enable scalable, reliable digital experiences.
Role Subtype SRE Manager
Tech Domains Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud native, Performance testing, SLOs, Architecture evaluation
Performance EngineeringSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)Observability/APM toolsCloud native application architecturescloud infrastructureSLOsmetricsNon-functional requirementsArchitecture evaluationRequirements analysisroot cause analysisgovernance frameworkmulti-year enablement roadmapmaturity modelas-is and to-beenterprise wideCloud infrastructurePerformance testing

Lack of IT management experience delivering enterprise-wide performance improvements, No experience with SRE/Observability tools

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