Director of Infrastructure & Cloud Modernization

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

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