Principal Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud & Network)

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 expanding its Global Capability Center (GCC) in India to help drive our next phase of cloud transformation.

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer (P4) to serve as a hands-on technical leader and team leader within our global Infrastructure Engineering organization. This role will lead design and delivery of cloud infrastructure capabilities in our Azure-first environment while partnering closely with our US-based Cloud Infrastructure team to align on architecture standards and shared roadmaps.

You bring deep Azure expertise; familiarity with AWS is a plus but not required and experience with AliCloud remains an added advantage. Because this role partners with global teams across North America Europe and Asia especially the US-based Cloud Infrastructure team. Excellent English communication and a proven ability to collaborate across time zones and organizational boundaries are essential.

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 cloud platforms and services at scale.

You will:

• Lead technical design for cloud infrastructure solutions (networking identity security governance and platform services) producing clear architecture diagrams and decision records

• Serve as team lead for a small squad of cloud engineers: set priorities delegate work remove blockers coach/mentor engineers and drive consistent engineering practices

• Partner closely with the US-based Cloud Infrastructure team to align standards reference architectures and shared roadmaps; collaborate effectively across time zones

• Own infrastructure-as-code patterns (Terraform) and CI/CD automation improving reusability security and deployment safety

• 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

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

YOU ARE

• A principal-level cloud engineer who combines strong hands-on delivery with architecture and design leadership

• 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 US-based Cloud Infrastructure teammates product teams and stakeholders across regions

• A clear and confident communicatorin both spoken and written Englishable 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 cloud infrastructure / platform engineering including ownership of production environments

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or related STEM fieldor equivalent experience

• Significant hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (primary requirement)

• Proven ability to lead technical design (architecture trade-offs documentation) and drive alignment across teams

• Experience acting as a technical lead or team lead including mentoring code/IaC reviews and delivery planning

• Strong Terraform experience particularly for IaC reusable modules and deployment pipelines

• Familiarity with GitHub Actions Azure DevOps CI/CD and automation tools such as Ansible and PowerShell

• Experience with cloud 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

• General knowledge of AWS (nice to have not required); AliCloud experience is an added advantage

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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.