Director, Infrastructure and Cloud

## Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Apply:
Grand Rapids, MI:
Full time:
Posted Today:
RAs a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
** Meijer Rewards
*** Weekly pay
* Scheduling flexibility
* Paid parental leave
* Paid education assistance
* Team member discount
* Development programs for advancement and career growth

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The Director, Infrastructure & Cloud is responsible for the reliability, resiliency, delivery, and modernization of the organization’s core infrastructure platforms. This role leads day-to-day operations, strategic planning, security alignment, cost management, and vendor performance while partnering with technology and business leaders to support Meijer’s enterprise priorities.
** What You’ll be Doing:
**** Strategic Planning & Roadmap
*** Develop and execute the infrastructure strategy and roadmap across compute, storage, cloud, edge, virtualization, mainframe, and database platforms.
* Align infrastructure investments, lifecycle plans, capacity needs, and modernization priorities with enterprise goals and annual planning cycles.
* Stay current on industry trends to keep Meijer’s infrastructure secure, scalable, and competitive.
** Infrastructure Operations & Delivery
*** Own operational health, availability, performance, and service levels for enterprise infrastructure platforms.
* Oversee delivery of infrastructure projects and platform upgrades on time and within budget.
* Drive incident/problem management, automation, standardization, and continuous improvement across owned platforms.
** Platform Management
*** Oversee cloud infrastructure in GCP and Azure, including container platforms such as Open Shift, with appropriate security, governance, and cost controls.
* Manage enterprise storage, edge computing, virtual desktop, mainframe, and database administration environments.
* Guide hybrid infrastructure strategy and workload placement across on-premises and cloud environments.
** Leadership & Talent Development
*** Lead, mentor, and develop a multi-disciplinary team of infrastructure engineers, architects, and leaders.
* Build organizational capability and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, service ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
** Financial, Vendor & Risk Management
*** Own infrastructure operating and capital budget planning, including lifecycle investments, cloud consumption, licensing, and cost optimization.
* Manage strategic vendor, managed service, hardware, software, and cloud partnerships to ensure service performance and value realization.
* Partner with Finance, Procurement, Security, and Risk teams on investment planning, compliance, audit readiness, and risk mitigation.
** Security, Compliance & Resiliency
*** Partner with Security to meet infrastructure security, access, patching, vulnerability, monitoring, and compliance expectations.
* Own business continuity, disaster recovery, and resiliency planning for core infrastructure platforms.
* Communicate operational risks, service issues, and lifecycle concerns to appropriate stakeholders.
** Collaboration and Communication
*** Partner with Network & Communications, Cloud, Security, Service Operations, Strategy & Architecture, and business teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure outcomes.
* Communicate strategies, plans, risks, and status updates clearly to stakeholders at all levels.
* Build trusted relationships with technology, business, finance, procurement, and vendor partners.
** Required Qualifications
*** Bachelor’s…