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