Cloud Platform Engineer

At Lids Sports Group, we don’t just sell hats — we fuel fandom. As the largest licensed sports retailer in North America, we bring sports, fashion, and culture together in more than 1,300 stores nationwide. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Lids delivers premium, fan-driven products and unforgettable retail experiences.

Cloud Platform Engineer

At Lids Sports Group, we don’t just sell hats — we fuel fandom. As the largest licensed sports retailer in North America, we bring sports, fashion, and culture together in more than 1,300 stores nationwide. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Lids delivers premium, fan-driven products and unforgettable retail experiences.

Our stores feature officially licensed headwear and apparel from collegiate and professional teams, alongside top brands like Champion, Nike, New Era, Lululemon Athletica, and Mitchell & Ness. We’re also the industry leader in on-demand customization, offering in-store embroidery that turns everyday gear into one-of-a-kind statements.

From specialty concept stores for the NBA and NHL to iconic clubhouse destinations for the Yankees and Dodgers, we create immersive retail experiences that celebrate the teams fans love. Through collaborations with brands like Marvel, Peanuts, and The Walt Disney Company, Lids continues to redefine how fans represent their teams — in style.

The Cloud Platform Engineer plays a critical role in designing, building, automating, and evolving cloud infrastructure and platform services. This position develops resilient infrastructure patterns, Infrastructure as Code, automation, disaster recovery capabilities, and platform modernization by partnering with Cloud Architecture, Cloud Operations, Dev Ops, Security, Support, and application teams, driving a more scalable, secure, automated, and operable cloud platform.

• Design, build, and improve Azure infrastructure and platform service patterns.
• Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure-as-Code modules, deployment patterns, and platform automation standards.
• Design and implement networking, compute, storage, PaaS, resiliency, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Support disaster recovery design, recovery readiness, failover planning, and resilience engineering activities.
• Automate repeatable platform operations using scripting, pipelines, and cloud-native tooling.
• Collaborate with Cloud Architecture on reference architecture implementation and platform standards.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops on deployment orchestration, pipeline integration, and infrastructure delivery processes.
• Mentor Cloud Ops team members and conduct technical knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, or operational handoffs.
• Document design decisions, standards, implementation patterns, operational handoff requirements, and support considerations.
• Lead complex technical remediation, modernization, and platform improvement efforts.

• AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AZ-700 Azure Network Engineer Associate.
• AZ-400 Dev Ops Engineer Expert, Hashi Corp Terraform Associate, or equivalent automation / IaC experience.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, CI/CD integration, and cloud platform modernization.
• Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical workshops, or creating reusable platform standards.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement plan
• 100% employer-paid benefits, including short-term and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off
• Generous employee discount and exclusive perks
• Ongoing career development, including…