Senior Director, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

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NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We're looking for a Sr Director, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering. This role has responsibility and accountability for setting the vision, strategy, engineering, and delivery of Nike Global Managed Cloud Environment. This is a critical senior leadership role that will lead a transformation of Nike foundational infrastructure toward next-generation capabilities. In the role you will work across public cloud, hybrid cloud, and cdn/edge environments globally. A successful candidate will be a servant leader with technical expertise to deliver best-in-class data driven decisioning, agility, availability, resiliency, security, and performance in a cloud and edge infrastructure. Deliver those capabilities through clear communication, teamwork, creativity, strategic thinking, problem-solving, commitment, inclusion, and positivity. Experience building a culture and running a large, distributed organization. Proven track record of driving change and transformation in cloud and edge compute engineering technologies, tools, and processes through metrics-driven, KPI-based methodologies, and an evidence-based continuous improvement approach to best meet business objectives and priorities.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

In this role you will translate business strategies and objectives into strategic direction and plans, lead initiatives, develop talent, problem solve to ensure successful delivery, maintaining strategic partnerships, and manage budget. In addition, presenting the vision, strategies, roadmaps and progress to Senior and Executive Leadership. Through cross functional partnership you will create and deliver these capabilities in support of Retail, Digital, Logistics, Planning, Product, Manufacturing and Marketing. Ensure that engineering excellence, innovation, scale, and security are embedded within the culture. Identify and assess technology trends and articulate technology recommendations. Collaborate with Architecture and Product Management to develop a clear vision, outcomes, and roadmap for the future cloud and foundational capabilities transforming the organization into Products and Platforms through Self-Service, Platform Engineering, Automation and DevOps.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This position will manage an enterprise organization comprise of Cloud Engineering, Edge Compute, IoT, CDN, Scheduler, Tagging, Image Management, Bot Management, and Backup/Storage reporting to the Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering. Working across Global Technology partnering with Global Architecture and Developer Platform, CIS, Technical Product Management, Technical Program Management, Digital, Retail, Marketing, Operations and Logistics, Planning and Manufacturing, Corporate Functions, and Geographies. In addition to partnering with key business stakeholders in Nike Direct, Supply Chain and Geographies.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 7 + years of experience as a people manager leading engineering teams, including having managers and managers of managers reporting into you.

• 15 – 18 years of experience in cloud technologies.

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience. Advanced Degree Preferred (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD).

• Expertise in Public Cloud  

• Expertise in Platform Engineering and DevOps

• Demonstrated technical knowledge of cloud technologies

• Prior experience migrating from a on prem to a Cloud Native infrastructure

• Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization, Configuration Management, IaC, CDN, DNS, Containers

• Edge Platform, Infrastructure as a Service Platform, Distribution Center Platform

• Engineering life-cycle management of software infrastructure

• Establish best-practice software engineering methodologies for a global, 24x7, high-volume, high-availability, critical production environment, based on metrics-based KPIs

• Develop software and infrastructure design and implementation roadmaps to meet the company's operations & infrastructure business goals and metrics for availability, resiliency and performance.

• Prior experience in improving stabilization of complex enterprise cloud

• Prior experience in working with highly-effective engineering teams through major technology transitions.

• Lead development of innovation and strategic direction in application of theories and concepts in cloud and edge compute design, configuration, administration, maintenance and/or support.

• Work closely with other departments to proactively ensure cloud engineering capabilities are capable of handling emerging and future business requirements.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.