VP, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering

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Location:

Onsite 4 days per week at Varsity Brands HQ in Farmers Branch, TX

Varsity Brands is seeking a transformational technology leader to lead the modernization of the company's Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Enterprise Infrastructure Operations. Reporting to the Chief Technology & Product Officer, the VP, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering will define and execute the enterprise infrastructure strategy while ensuring the reliability, security, scalability, and operational excellence of mission‑critical technology platforms.

The VP, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering will lead Varsity Brands' multi-year transformation from traditional on-premises infrastructure to a modern AWS‑based cloud platform while maintaining highly available enterprise systems throughout the transition. This role is accountable for building an automation‑first engineering organization that enables product teams to deliver technology faster, improves customer experience, and supports the company's long‑term digital growth.

Success in this role requires a professional who combines deep technical expertise with exceptional leadership, business partnership, and execution capabilities. The ideal candidate demonstrates a customer‑first mindset, operates with urgency, proactively leads through ambiguity, builds trusted partnerships across Engineering, Product, Security, Data, AI, Enterprise Applications, and business functions, while ensuring infrastructure strategy aligns with business priorities and customer outcomes. This leader creates clarity where others see uncertainty, removes barriers to execution, and fosters a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Varsity Brands is modernizing its technology platform to better serve customers, accelerate product delivery, strengthen enterprise reliability, and enable future growth. Cloud infrastructure has become a strategic business capability rather than simply an operational function.

The VP, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering will build the secure, scalable, and highly available technology foundation that enables Engineering, Product, Data, AI, Security, and business teams to innovate with confidence. This leader will also help establish the operating model, cross‑functional partnerships, and execution discipline required to translate infrastructure modernization into faster delivery, stronger reliability, and better customer outcomes.

This role matters because it connects enterprise infrastructure strategy directly to business performance, customer experience, and the company's long‑term transformation agenda.

Define and execute the multi‑year cloud migration roadmap

Lead migration of application workloads from on‑premises infrastructure to AWS

Design enterprise landing zones, networking, IAM, security, governance, and shared platform services

Establish cloud architecture standards and engineering best practices

Drive modernization through containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and platform engineering

Lead the organizational change required to successfully execute the cloud transformation by aligning stakeholders, proactively removing barriers, driving adoption of modern engineering practices, making timely decisions, and maintaining momentum across the enterprise

Maintain enterprise‑class operations for remaining on‑premises systems including:

• SAP ECC
• Nutanix or VMware
• Windows/Linux infrastructure
• Enterprise storage
• Backup & recovery
• Disaster Recovery
• Networking
• Firewalls
• Active Directory
• Monitoring
• Data center capacity planning

Maintain 24x7 operational excellence throughout the migration journey.

Own enterprise AWS services including:

• Landing Zones
• Organizations
• VPC Architecture
• IAM
• EKS
• ECS
• EC2
• RDS
• Aurora
• S3
• Lambda
• Cloud Front
• Route
  53
• Bedrock
• Cloud Watch
• Systems Manager
• Security Hub
• Guard Duty
• AWS Backup

Build an Infrastructure‑as‑Code culture using:

• Terraform
• Cloud Formation
• Git Hub Actions
• CI/CD
• Automated environment provisioning
• Automated patching
• Policy as Code
• Configuration Management

Self‑service platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to provision infrastructure consistently, securely, and with minimal manual intervention

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