Director, Infrastructure & Security Architecture

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• Pet First – Protect & Empower. All pets should Live their Best Life. We put the needs of pets and pet parents at the center of everything we do.
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We’re proud to be "where the pets go" to find everything they need to live their best lives for more than 60 years — from their favorite meals and toys, to trusted supplies and expert support from people who get it, because we live it. We believe in the universal truths of pet parenthood — the boundless boops, missing slippers, late night zoomies and everything in between.

And we’re here for it. Every tail wag, every vet visit, every step of the way. We are 29,000+ strong and together we nurture the pet-human bond in more than 1,500 Petco stores across the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico,
250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers. In 1999, we founded Petco Love. Together, we support thousands of local animal welfare groups nationwide and have helped find homes for approximately 7 million animals through in-store adoption events.

• Builds and leads the Technology Infrastructure Architecture (TIA) function as a new, dedicated team, ensuring security is integrated seamlessly into enterprise infrastructure projects from the design phase, accelerating safe technology delivery
• Responsible for long-range secure infrastructure architecture strategy and planning across cloud, on-premise, and endpoint environments supporting both retail and enterprise operations
• Acts as the face of the TIA team to the business and the primary liaison between TIA, senior IT leadership, Operations teams, Information Security, and Engineering leaders; ensures TIA is engaged early in business projects
• Manages the cross functional team for architecture reviews and new business projects; defines and tracks team KPIs (e.g., shift-left engagement, design flaw reduction)
• Embeds cybersecurity principles into all architecture decisions; drives secure-by-design principles, zero trust adoption, threat modeling, and network segmentation standards in partnership with Information Security
• Enforces established security reference architectures and standards — identity and access, network segmentation, ZTNA/SASE, encryption, and cloud security posture — throughout project designs and reviews
• Operates as a hands-on player-coach — prototypes, builds reference architectures, and works alongside engineers to unblock delivery, bringing velocity to new projects rather than governance overhead
• Leads implementation and enterprise change management for infrastructure and security initiatives — plans, sequences, and drives changes through build, testing, and rollout, ensuring architectural decisions are executed and adopted across store and enterprise environments rather than handed off
• Partners closely with the existing Network Operations organization to ensure new designs are operable, observable, and transition cleanly into steady-state support
• Owns budget planning and management for the TIA…