Director, Infrastructure and Cloud

Meijer; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Scheduling flexibility

Paid parental leave

Paid education assistance

Team member discount

Development programs for advancement

Job summary

Meijer is seeking a Director, Infrastructure & Cloud in Grand Rapids, MI to lead reliability, modernization, and delivery of the company’s core infrastructure. You will guide strategic planning, operational excellence, and cost optimization across on-prem and cloud environments, partnering with executives to support enterprise priorities.

You will shape the infrastructure roadmap, manage a multi-disciplinary team, and drive security, resiliency, and vendor partnerships while ensuring performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IT or related field.
• 12+ years' experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform operations in a large enterprise environment.
• 7+ years leading technical teams, including senior manager or director-level responsibilities.
• Extensive experience managing enterprise infrastructure platforms (Windows, Linux, cloud, virtualization, storage, containers, automation, mainframe, database).
• Proven experience managing large technical teams, budgets, vendor relationships, lifecycle planning, disaster recovery, and risk management.
• Strategic thinker with strong executive communication skills across operations, delivery, financial stewardship, risk management, and long-term planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the infrastructure strategy and roadmap across compute, storage, cloud, edge, virtualization, mainframe, and database platforms.
• Align infrastructure investments with enterprise goals and planning cycles.
• Stay current on industry trends to keep Meijer's infrastructure secure, scalable, and competitive.
• 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.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure in GCP and Azure, including container platforms such as OpenShift, with security, governance, and cost controls.
• Manage enterprise storage, edge computing, virtual desktop, mainframe, and database environments.
• Guide hybrid infrastructure strategy and workload placement across on-premises and cloud environments.
• 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.
• Own infrastructure operating and capital budget planning, including lifecycle investments, cloud consumption, licensing, and cost optimization.
• Manage 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.
• 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 stakeholders.
• 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.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Executive communication

Cloud & virtualization

Budget management

Vendor management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Windows

Linux

OpenShift

Automation tooling

Job description

As 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

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 OpenShift, 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 degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 12+ years' experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform operations in a large enterprise environment.
• 7+ years leading technical teams, including senior manager or director-level responsibilities.
• Extensive experience managing enterprise infrastructure platforms, including Windows, Linux, cloud, virtualization, storage, containers, automation, mainframe, and database environments.
• Proven experience managing large technical teams, concurrent delivery initiatives, budgets, vendor relationships, platform lifecycle planning, disaster recovery, and operational risk.
• Strategic thinker with strong executive communication skills across operations, delivery, financial stewardship, risk management, and long-term planning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in retail, distribution, supply chain, or other large multi-site enterprise environments.
• Experience with ITIL, service management, infrastructure automation, FinOps, or modernization.
• Experience leading business continuity, disaster recovery, audit, compliance, or technology risk activities.

We opened our doors more than 90 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we're a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 270 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request. Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.