Sr. Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering

Foot Locker is driving digital transformation in retail and corporate technology environments. The Sr. Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering will lead a team of engineers to deliver mission critical systems and infrastructure while ensuring high levels of availability, optimization, and customer service.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute on long-term cloud platform strategy, implement innovative solutions, and foster operational excellence
• Deliver project portfolio for cloud service provider hosting platforms, consistently ensuring performance, reliability, recoverability, security, and organization of cloud resources
• Continuously assess, enhance, adhere to, and report on modern FinOps practices to optimize cloud platform spend; share trends in collaboration on expense budgeting
• Manifest high-performing team members through creation of a shared purpose and mission; attract and retain exceptional talent; manage staff by recruiting, mentoring, and growing our associates; develop personal growth opportunities; and manage team efficiency, quality, and production
• Construct executive-level reporting including notable metrics, trends, and data points
• Define and enforce documentation standards and process automation across the Cloud Platform Engineering environments
• Incorporate Automated Intelligence to accelerate engineering
• Leverage an automation-first, customer-centric mindset to engineer a platform for cloud infrastructure services that integrates into our developer portal and enables governed self-service provisioning, visibility, stewardship, and troubleshooting
• Maintain professional and technical external focus by attending and leading practice areas and centers of excellence, evaluating new technologies, and promoting knowledge sharing across the department

Requirements:

• Extensive knowledge of cloud platforms with a focus on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
• Management or lead experience in implementing, managing, and maintaining infrastructure for high volume enterprise applications, robust e-commerce implementations, and support of common development practices
• Strong understanding and experience with key technologies such as code / container / image repositories, serverless code deployments, CI/CD through orchestration, environment management, and infrastructure as code in a large production environment
• Experience with best practices for modern technologies such as zonal / cross-region redundancy, container orchestration, auto-scaling, and application gateways
• Conceptual knowledge of hardware- and software-based firewalls, traffic management, load balancers, routers, and switches
• Experience developing, organizing, tracking, and implementing IT projects
• Influential leadership with the ability to partner, inspire, and build consensus
• Proven success in teaching, coaching, mentoring, and fostering accountability for engineers and other technical team members
• Ability to build and demonstrate trust across teams through competence, reliability, sincerity, and empathy
• Understanding of TLS certificate management usage, deployment, and maintenance
• Strong verbal presentation and written communication skills
• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience and demonstrated success leading highly technical global initiatives
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading multi-disciplined technical teams, preferably with global reach across multiple service types
• Strong knowledge of IT security concepts, IT infrastructure concepts, and IT Service Management
• Ability to travel
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field preferred
• Familiarity with Jira and work intake / work management techniques such as scrum and agile