Principal Infrastructure Engineer (Compute & Storage)

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 Principle Compute and Storage Infrastructure Engineer (P4) 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 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.

Because this role partners with global teams across North America Europe and Asia excellent English communication (spoken and written) and experience working with international distributed teams 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 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 small squad of engineers: coach/mentor engineers and drive consistent engineering practices
• Partner closely with the US-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

YOU ARE

• A principal-level infrastructure engineer who combines strong hands-on delivery with solution 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 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)

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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.