Manager Information Technology

Floor & Decor Holdings Inc. (old); Georgia; On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

401k with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid vacation and sick time

Job summary

Floor & Decor is assembling a dedicated Application Platforms team in Atlanta. As the founding leader, you will set the platform strategy, hire and mentor engineers, and personally build the first generation of services. This is a hands-on, player-coach role shaping charter, tech choices, operating model, and culture from day one.

The role focuses on establishing CI/CD tooling, developer experience, and SOX-aligned controls, with a path to scale runtime and integration as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with 3+ years leading engineers or technical teams.
• Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Argo) and understanding delivery controls for compliance.
• Strong grasp of developer tooling and engineering practices, including testing frameworks, application frameworks, and security scanning in the pipeline.
• Knowledge of observability tools (Dynatrace, Grafana, OpsGenie).
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container runtimes.
• Familiarity with integration patterns (APIs, messaging, streaming).
• Proven ability to build a team from a small base, set priorities, and deliver with limited resources.
• Strong communication skills with engineers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, roadmap, and operating model for Application Platforms, treating the platform as a product with developers as customers
• Roll up your sleeves to design, build, and operate early CI/CD and developer tooling capabilities while the team is small
• Recruit, hire, and grow a team of platform engineers; coach and develop the associate engineer on the team today
• Sequence work deliberately across the five functions, making build/buy/partner decisions as capacity grows
• Partner with application development leaders to gather requirements and measure platform adoption and developer experience
• Work with Internal Audit and Security to maintain SOX-compliant change and deployment controls without slowing delivery
• Manage vendor and tool relationships, including licensing, renewals, and roadmap alignment
• Define and track service levels, reliability targets, and cost for platform services
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Enterprise Architecture on standards and shared capabilities
• Establish documentation, self-service patterns, and golden paths that reduce the load on the platform team

Skills

Lead engineers

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Observability tooling

Kubernetes

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Argo

Dynatrace

Grafana

OpsGenie

APIs

Job description

About the Role

Floor & Decor is building a dedicated Application Platforms team to give our software development teams the capabilities they need to build, deploy, and run applications reliably and securely. As the founding leader of this team, you will set the platform strategy, hire and develop the engineers, and personally build the first generation of services. This is a player-coach role. In the early months you will be hands-on, designing pipelines, configuring tooling, and solving problems alongside your team, while laying the foundation for a larger organization. You will shape the team's charter, technology choices, operating model, and culture from day one.

Location: Store Support Center (SSC) in Atlanta - This is an in-office role, 3-days per week (Mon/Tues/Thurs). Please note this is not a remote position.

Where the Team Will Focus

Phase 1: Foundation (start here)

CI/CD: Continuous integration and delivery tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Argo, plus shared pipeline services and pipeline review. Partners with Internal Audit to ensure delivery processes meet SOX requirements.

Development Tools: The developer toolchain, including IDEs, testing frameworks, spec-driven development (SDD) tooling, application frameworks (e.g., Spring for Java), and security scanning.

Phase 2: Visibility Observability: Monitoring, alerting, and incident response tooling such as Dynatrace, Grafana, and OpsGenie, so teams can detect and respond to issues quickly.

Phase 3: Scale (as the team grows)

Runtime: The application hosting layer above the operating system, primarily containers orchestrated on Kubernetes.

Integration: Services that let applications work together, including API management, MCP management, messaging, streaming, SFTP, and ETL.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, roadmap, and operating model for Application Platforms, treating the platform as a product with developers as customers
• Roll up your sleeves to design, build, and operate early CI/CD and developer tooling capabilities while the team is small
• Recruit, hire, and grow a team of platform engineers; coach and develop the associate engineer on the team today
• Sequence work deliberately across the five functions, making clear build, buy, and partner decisions as capacity grows
• Partner with application development leaders to gather requirements and feedback, and to measure platform adoption and developer experience
• Work with Internal Audit and Security to maintain SOX-compliant change and deployment controls without slowing delivery
• Manage vendor and tool relationships, including licensing, renewals, and roadmap alignment
• Define and track service levels, reliability targets, and cost for platform services
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Enterprise Architecture on standards and shared capabilities
• Establish documentation, self-service patterns, and golden paths that reduce the load on the platform team

What Success Looks Like

• First 90 days: Assess the current CI/CD and developer tooling landscape, build relationships with development teams, and publish a prioritized roadmap
• First 6 months: Deliver visible improvements to pipelines and developer tooling, establish SOX-aligned controls with Internal Audit, and hire the first engineers
• First year: Measurable gains in developer experience and deployment reliability, observability capabilities underway, and a plan and capacity in place to take on Runtime and Integration

Qualifications Required

• [10+] years in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with [3+] years leading engineers or technical teams
• Recent hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub, Argo), and an understanding of how delivery controls support compliance
• Strong grasp of developer tooling and engineering practices, including testing frameworks, application frameworks, and security scanning in the pipeline
• Working knowledge of observability practices and tools (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, OpsGenie)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based runtimes
• Familiarity with integration patterns and technologies such as APIs, messaging, and streaming
• Demonstrated ability to build a team from a small base, set priorities, and deliver with limited resources
• Strong communication skills, with credibility among both engineers and senior stakeholders

Preferred Experience

• Preferred Experience in a SOX-regulated environment, working directly with audit teams
• Cloud experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Experience with platform-as-a-product practices and developer experience metrics
• Familiarity with MCP and AI-assisted development tooling
• Retail or multi-channel commerce experience
• Experience managing vendors and tool budgets

WORKING CONDITIONS (TRAVEL & ENVIRONMENT)

Limited travel required including air and car. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally be exposed to a warehouse environment and moving vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is typically quiet to moderate.

PHYSICAL/SENSORY REQUIREMENTS

Sedentary Work - Ability to exert 10 - 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.

Benefits & Rewards

• Bonus opportunities & career advancement opportunities at every level
• Programs that help you reach your financial goals: 401k with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and Referral Bonus Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and other Insurance Plans (subject to eligibility criteria)
• Work-life balance, including: Paid vacation and sick time for eligible associates
• Paid holidays plus a personal holiday
• Paid Volunteer Time Off that starts on Day 1

Equal Employment Opportunity

Floor & Decor provides equal employment opportunities to all associates and applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other category protected by law. This policy applies to all areas of employment, including recruitment, testing, screening, hiring, selection for training, upgrading, transfer, demotion, layoff, discipline, termination, compensation, benefits and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment. This policy and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any associate or applicant on the basis of any legally protected status outlined above.

JOIN THE COMPANY THAT REVOLUTIONIZED THE FLOORING BUSINESS.

Floor & Decor is like no other flooring company. Founded in 2000 in Atlanta, we have quickly become one of the country’s leading flooring retailers, with dozens of stores nationwide & more to come. A strong entrepreneurial spirit flows through our young company.

TIME, TALENT & TEAMWORK The remarkable success we have enjoyed could not have happened without the time, talent, and teamwork of our extremely dedicated associates. Working with equal amounts of passion and grit, we’ve become the "category killer of flooring" by revolutionizing the way people buy flooring. Our customers enjoy the largest in-stock selection of tile, wood, stone, and flooring accessories at prices no one can beat.

OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE

To continue our amazing growth, Floor & Decor is actively seeking gifted people with a solid work ethic and a real passion for helping others. Are you ready to make a difference at a truly groundbreaking company? From our retail stores to our distribution centers to our corporate office, we encourage you to explore the variety of exciting opportunities available right now. Our career opportunities may leave you floored.