Principal Compute Engineer (Team Lead)

Columbia Sportswear

Job Location:

Portland, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia were as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide were proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: Its perfect. Now make it better. As pioneers of relentless improvement we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Columbia Sportswear is powered by technology that connects four global brands a worldwide supply chain and 500 retail stores. Our Columbia Digital Technology (CDT) organization is looking for a Principle Infrastructure Engineer to help drive our future On-Prem and Hybrid transformation.

We are seeking a Principal Compute and Storage Infrastructure Engineer with strong on-prem and solid hybrid expertise and a focus on virtualized environments Windows and Red Hat Linux operating systems storage global files sharing and replication/resilience hybrid this role you will help lead and keep our Global On-Prem environment reliable secure and well-governed; partnering with and supporting other engineers through operational execution documentation and continuous improvement. You will also help plan design and deploy future state environments as we adapt to the business and changing technical landscape.

You bring deep On-Prem expertise with strong skills with Hybrid environments; familiarity with Azure and SaaS nuances.

HOW YOULL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

In this role youll lead and contribute hands-on as part of Columbias global Infrastructure Engineering team to design build secure and operate enterprise on-prem and hybrid platforms and services at scale.

You will:

Lead technical design for on prem and hybrid infrastructure solutions (compute storage security governance and platform services) producing clear architecture diagrams and decision records
Serve as team lead for a squad of engineers: coach/mentor engineers and drive consistent engineering practices
Partner closely with the India-based Compute and Storage Infrastructure team to align standards reference architectures and shared roadmaps; collaborate effectively across time zones
Drive reliability and operations maturity: incident response leadership post-incident learning runbooks observability and continuous improvement
Conduct technical reviews audits and assessments; ensure documentation is accurate actionable and kept current
Drive financially efficient decisions and work with the Finance Platform and Engineering teams to support FinOps practices including cost visibility usage optimization and spend governance

This position plays a key role in shaping Columbias on-prem and hybrid platform strategy and executionbuilding a stable scalable and secure foundation while enabling delivery teams worldwide.

YOU ARE

A principal-level infrastructure engineer who combines strong hands-on delivery with solution architecture and design leadership
Familiar with working with a globally diverse engineering teams
A team lead who coaches others drives accountability and raises the quality bar through standards and reviews
A collaborative partner who builds trusted relationships and works effectively with India-based Infrastructure teammates product teams and stakeholders across regions
A clear and confident communicatorin both spoken and writtenable to translate complex technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences
Someone who values documentation repeatable automation and process-driven engineering
An analytical thinker who emphasizes structure security reliability and cost awareness
A proactive self-directed engineer who thrives in a dynamic global environment

YOU HAVE

8 years of hands-on experience in on-prem infrastructure / platform engineering including ownership of production environments
Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or related STEM fieldor equivalent experience
Extensive hands-on experience with a combination of the following: VMware Windows Server OS RedHat Linux Commvault Dell Pure Qumulo technologies
Solid knowledge of Azure and SaaS environments
Proven ability to lead technical design (architecture trade-offs documentation) and drive alignment across teams
Experience working with global or distributed teams (GCC/multinational experience is a plus)
Experience acting as a technical lead or team lead including mentoring code/IaC reviews and delivery planning

Experience working with Product Owners and engineers to understand the work and break it down into consumable pieces for engineers to act upon Experience with Jira Confluence
Strong automation bias

Familiarity with GitHub Actions Azure DevOps CI/CD and automation tools such as Ansible and PowerShell
Experience with on-prem and hybrid security and governance controls (e.g. identity network segmentation policy-as-code logging/monitoring)
Experience with ITSM/ITIL and operational excellence practices; exposure to Jira Service Manager is a plus

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the positions scope and function in the company.

Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company were proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical social/emotional financial career and community. Benefits that can protect your familys financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical dental vision life Insurance disability flexible spending accounts health savings account and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident critical illness hospital indemnity and legal services). In addition Columbia offers EAP which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application please reach out to with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.

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OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD COME PLAY IN OURS.At Columbia were as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide were proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest where natural wonders are our playground.Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired ...