Director, Infrastructure Engineering

Why Work for KeHE?

• Full-time
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• Benefits on Day 1
  • Health/Rx
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid time off
  • Paid sick time
  • Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
  • Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
  • Holiday pay for company designated holidays

At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others – and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

The Director of Infrastructure Engineering will lead the modernization of the company’s infrastructure organization from a traditional, legacy operating model to a secure, automated, cloud-enabled infrastructure platform engineering function. This role oversees networking, virtualization, storage, IBM i, data center infrastructure, and cloud engineering. This hands‑on leadership role requires a leader who can set strategy while remaining deeply engaged in architecture, engineering execution, migration planning, and operational support.

The Director will build the practices, operating model, technologies, and team capabilities needed to advance cloud migration, automation, platform services, and technical debt reduction while enabling secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for the business. As with all positions at KeHE Distributors, we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE’s Mission, Vision, and Values.

Infrastructure Strategy & Modernization

• Develop and execute the multi-year strategy and implementation plan for a modern Infrastructure Engineering organization across networking and compute.
• Treat infrastructure capabilities as products and services with defined internal customers, ownership, documentation, service levels, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish a security and automation-first engineering culture centered on Infrastructure as Code, observability, policy-as-code, metrics, standardization, security, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate AI-enabled tools that improve engineering productivity, automation, operations, and platform delivery.
• Define transformation objectives, milestones, KPIs, adoption measures, customer feedback loops, and executive reporting to track progress and outcomes.

Cloud Engineering & Transformation

• Lead Cloud Engineering capability supporting production workloads across AWS and Microsoft Azure, including architecture standards, landing zones, governance, and operations.
• Develop repeatable practices for provisioning, managing, and optimizing cloud and hybrid workloads.
• Establish cloud operational practices resiliency, monitoring, incident response, lifecycle management, and cost optimization.
• Partner with application, data, and security teams to ensure secure, standardized, and cost-effective cloud adoption.

Network Engineering & Operations

• Integrate the network function into the broader Infrastructure Engineering operating model.
• Evolve network operations toward automation, IaC, APIs, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident management, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure proper secure network architecture, segmentation, resiliency, operational controls, and standards.

Data Center & Legacy Infrastructure

• Oversee server, virtualization, storage, IBM i, and third-party data center environments while maintaining operational stability.
• Develop…