Director, Infrastructure and Cloud

Meijer Inc.; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; 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 Inc. is seeking a Director of Infrastructure and Cloud in Grand Rapids, MI to lead the reliability, modernization, and budgeting of core infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments.

You will drive strategic planning, vendor management, and security alignment while mentoring a diverse team of engineers and architects to deliver enterprise-scale solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or platform operations within a large enterprise.
• At least 7+ years leading technical teams at director-like levels with budget responsibility.
• Experience managing enterprise infrastructure: Windows, Linux, cloud, storage, virtualization, databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the infrastructure strategy and roadmap across compute, storage, cloud, edge, virtualization, mainframe, and database platforms.
• Own operational health, availability, and service levels for enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Lead security alignment, risk management, and cost optimization across environments.
• Mentor and develop a multi-disciplinary team of infrastructure engineers and leaders.

Skills

Strategic planning

Executive communication

Budget management

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Vendor management

Security & compliance

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

OpenShift

GCP

Azure

Windows Server

Linux

Mainframe

Containerization

Job description

## Director, Infrastructure and CloudApply: Grand Rapids, MI: Full time: Posted Today: R000700299As 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 growthPlease review the job profile below and apply today!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.