Sr. Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering

ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Senior Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for leading Skechers global systems and cloud engineering groups. This leader will modernize and scale enterprise infrastructure capabilities strengthen operational reliability drive automation and standardization and partner closely with IT Cybersecurity Product Finance Enterprise Architecture and Business Operations to align infrastructure and cloud capabilities with business priorities.

This role requires broad infrastructure leadership experience deep cloud engineering expertise and the ability to build high-performing teams that deliver secure reliable scalable and cost-effective technology platforms in a global matrixed environment.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Lead the enterprise infrastructure and cloud engineering strategy inclusive of cloud platforms systems engineering collaboration platforms endpoints and related infrastructure services.
• Own the multi-cloud strategy across major hyperscalers including AWS Azure GCP and Oracle ensuring scalable secure resilient and cost-effective platform capabilities.
• Drive modernization migration and automation of infrastructure and cloud environments to improve reliability agility security and operational efficiency.
• Lead the design deployment and optimization of cloud-native hybrid-cloud and enterprise infrastructure architectures including IaaS PaaS SaaS compute storage and platform engineering capabilities.
• Establish infrastructure and cloud governance standards roadmaps architecture patterns lifecycle management practices and operating models across the global enterprise.
• Champion operational excellence through SRE practices SLOs SLAs observability incident management problem management capacity planning performance management and continuous improvement.
• Oversee Infrastructure as Code configuration management CI/CD enablement automation platform reliability and engineering practices that improve consistency and reduce operational risk.
• Partner with Cybersecurity to ensure infrastructure and cloud platforms align with Zero Trust principles identity and access controls security monitoring vulnerability management disaster recovery cyber recovery and compliance requirements.
• Drive FinOps practices infrastructure cost governance forecasting optimization vendor management licensing oversight and KPI reporting across infrastructure and cloud services.
• Develop talent strengthen succession planning and build leadership capacity across infrastructure and cloud engineering disciplines.
• Serve as a technology advisor to executive leadership on infrastructure investment cloud modernization operational risk resiliency cybersecurity alignment technology lifecycle and platform strategy.
• Represent Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering in enterprise governance forums steering committees architecture reviews and strategic planning discussions.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory audit privacy and operational requirements including SOX PCI-DSS GDPR and related enterprise controls.

WHAT YOULL BRING:

• 15 years of progressive cloud engineering systems engineering infrastructure engineering or related technology experience.
• Minimum 5 years at the Director level or above within a global matrixed organization with accountability for enterprise-scale infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Proven track record leading large-scale infrastructure modernization cloud transformation platform engineering reliability automation and operational maturity initiatives.
• Deep experience with major cloud platforms including AWS Azure GCP and Oracle with hands-on understanding of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure domains including compute virtualization storage backup disaster recovery cyber recovery endpoints and collaboration platforms.
• Experience leading infrastructure operations and engineering teams responsible for globally distributed business-critical platforms and services.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority and align technical priorities with business outcomes.
• Executive presence with experience presenting infrastructure strategy risk investment performance and modernization recommendations to senior leadership and C-suite audiences.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code automation configuration management and CI/CD practices using tools such as Terraform Ansible GitHub Actions Azure DevOps ArgoCD Jenkins or equivalent platforms.
• Working knowledge of enterprise networking concepts including SD-WAN Zero Trust CDN DNS load balancing segmentation and connectivity patterns across hybrid environments.
• Working knowledge of cloud and infrastructure security capabilities including CSPM CNAPP SIEM integrations identity and access management encryption vulnerability management and compliance frameworks.
• Strong financial and vendor management experience including CapEx OpEx budgeting forecasting licensing contracts and cost optimization.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience in retail consumer goods distribution manufacturing or global supply chain environments.
• Experience developing senior technical leaders and building succession plans across infrastructure cloud and platform engineering teams.
• Active certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional Azure Solutions Architect Expert Google Professional Cloud Architect Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional VMware ITIL or related infrastructure and cloud certifications.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or a related technical field required.
• Masters degree MBA or MS preferred.

The pay range for this role is $200000-$260000/yr USD.

About Skechers

Skechers a global Fortune 500 company developsand markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear apparel and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores e-commerce and digital stores and through our more than 5300 Skechers retail locations.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Skechers is committed to providing a safe inclusive and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race color religion gender gender identification and expression national origin marital status age disability genetic information military status sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic established by local state or federal law.

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