Sr. Director, Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering

K57 Skechers USA, Inc.; Rancho Santa Margarita (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Skechers is seeking a Senior Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering to lead global cloud and infrastructure engineering. You will guide strategy, governance, and modernization across multi-cloud environments, drive automation, and build high-performing teams to deliver secure, scalable platforms at scale.

Partner with IT, Cybersecurity, Finance, and Enterprise Architecture to align infrastructure investments with business priorities while maintaining cost efficiency and reliability.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive cloud engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering or related technology experience.
• Minimum 5 years at the Director level or above within a global, matrixed organization with accountability for enterprise-scale infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Proven track record leading large-scale infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, platform engineering, reliability, automation, and operational maturity initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise infrastructure and cloud engineering strategy across cloud platforms and related services.
• Own multi-cloud strategy across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle for scalable, secure platforms.
• Drive modernization, migration and automation to improve reliability and efficiency.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Infrastructure engineering

Leadership

Multi-cloud

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Master’s degree / MBA / MS preferred

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for leading Skechers’ global systems and cloud engineering groups. This leader will modernize and scale enterprise infrastructure capabilities, strengthen operational reliability, drive automation and standardization, and partner closely with IT, Cybersecurity, Product, Finance, Enterprise Architecture, and Business Operations to align infrastructure and cloud capabilities with business priorities. This role requires broad infrastructure leadership experience, deep cloud engineering expertise, and the ability to build high-performing teams that deliver secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective technology platforms in a global, matrixed environment.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead the enterprise infrastructure and cloud engineering strategy inclusive of cloud platforms, systems engineering, collaboration platforms, endpoints and related infrastructure services.
• Own the multi-cloud strategy across major hyperscalers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle, ensuring scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective platform capabilities.
• Drive modernization, migration and automation of infrastructure and cloud environments to improve reliability, agility, security, and operational efficiency.
• Lead the design, deployment, and optimization of cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and enterprise infrastructure architectures, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, compute, storage, and platform engineering capabilities.
• Establish infrastructure and cloud governance, standards, roadmaps, architecture patterns, lifecycle management practices, and operating models across the global enterprise.
• Champion operational excellence through SRE practices, SLOs, SLAs, observability, incident management, problem management, capacity planning, performance management, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, CI/CD enablement, automation, platform reliability, and engineering practices that improve consistency and reduce operational risk.
• Partner with Cybersecurity to ensure infrastructure and cloud platforms align with Zero Trust principles, identity and access controls, security monitoring, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and compliance requirements.
• Drive FinOps practices, infrastructure cost governance, forecasting, optimization, vendor management, licensing oversight, and KPI reporting across infrastructure and cloud services.
• Develop talent, strengthen succession planning, and build leadership capacity across infrastructure and cloud engineering disciplines.
• Serve as a technology advisor to executive leadership on infrastructure investment, cloud modernization, operational risk, resiliency, cybersecurity alignment, technology lifecycle, and platform strategy.
• Represent Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering in enterprise governance forums, steering committees, architecture reviews, and strategic planning discussions.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, audit, privacy, and operational requirements, including SOX, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and related enterprise controls.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 15+ years of progressive cloud engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering or related technology experience.
• Minimum 5 years at the Director level or above within a global, matrixed organization with accountability for enterprise-scale infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Proven track record leading large-scale infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, platform engineering, reliability, automation, and operational maturity initiatives.
• Deep experience with major cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle, with hands-on understanding of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure domains, including compute, virtualization, storage, backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, endpoints, and collaboration platforms.
• Experience leading infrastructure operations and engineering teams responsible for globally distributed, business-critical platforms and services.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority and align technical priorities with business outcomes.
• Executive presence with experience presenting infrastructure strategy, risk, investment, performance, and modernization recommendations to senior leadership and C-suite audiences.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, configuration management, and CI/CD practices using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or equivalent platforms.
• Working knowledge of enterprise networking concepts, including SD-WAN, Zero Trust, CDN, DNS, load balancing, segmentation, and connectivity patterns across hybrid environments.
• Working knowledge of cloud and infrastructure security capabilities, including CSPM, CNAPP, SIEM integrations, identity and access management, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks.
• Strong financial and vendor management experience, including CapEx, OpEx, budgeting, forecasting, licensing, contracts, and cost optimization.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• Experience in retail, consumer goods, distribution, manufacturing, or global supply chain environments.
• Experience developing senior technical leaders and building succession plans across infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering teams.
• Active certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional, VMware, ITIL, or related infrastructure and cloud certifications.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field required.
• Master’s degree, MBA, or MS preferred.
• The pay range for this role is $200,000-$260,000/yr USD.

ABOUT SKETCHERS

Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

Reasonable Accommodation Applicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing [e-mail]. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

JOIN OUR TEAM OF INNOVATORS, CREATORS, AND DESIGNERS

Join our team of innovators, creators, and designers. Skechers, the global leader in comfort technologies, brings together employees from around the globe to deliver stylish products for people of all ages. Our employees are passionate about more than just the products we design, employees – we value community involvement and give back to local communities through a variety of initiatives including Skechers Foundation and Bobs for Dogs. Learn more about who Skechers supports local communities around the world. Stay up to date on our brand, job openings, community involvement, and more via LinkedIn. Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations. From footwear to apparel and accessories, Skechers has a product for you and your family. Learn more about our many product offerings here.