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The Director, Infrastructure & Cloud is responsible for the reliability, resiliency, delivery, and modernization of the organization’s core infrastructure platforms. This role leads day-to-day operations, strategic planning, security alignment, cost management, and vendor performance while partnering with technology and business leaders to support Meijer’s enterprise priorities.
What You’ll be Doing:
Strategic Planning & Roadmap
- Develop and execute the infrastructure strategy and roadmap across compute, storage, cloud, edge, virtualization, mainframe, and database platforms.
- Align infrastructure investments, lifecycle plans, capacity needs, and modernization priorities with enterprise goals and annual planning cycles.
- Stay current on industry trends to keep Meijer’s infrastructure secure, scalable, and competitive.
Infrastructure Operations & Delivery
- 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.
Platform Management
- Oversee cloud infrastructure in GCP and Azure, including container platforms such as OpenShift, with appropriate security, governance, and cost controls.
- Manage enterprise storage, edge computing, virtual desktop, mainframe, and database administration environments.
- Guide hybrid infrastructure strategy and workload placement across on-premises and cloud environments.
Leadership & Talent Development
- 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.
Financial, Vendor & Risk Management
- Own infrastructure operating and capital budget planning, including lifecycle investments, cloud consumption, licensing, and cost optimization.
- Manage strategic 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.
Security, Compliance & Resiliency
- 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 appropriate stakeholders.
Collaboration and Communication
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, 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, including Windows, Linux, cloud, virtualization, storage, containers, automation, mainframe, and database environments.
- Proven experience managing large technical teams, concurrent delivery initiatives, budgets, vendor relationships, platform lifecycle planning, disaster recovery, and operational risk.
- Strategic thinker with strong executive communication skills across operations, delivery, financial stewardship, risk management, and long-term planning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in retail, distribution, supply chain, or other large multi-site enterprise environments.
- Experience with ITIL, service management, infrastructure automation, FinOps, or modernization.
- Experience leading business continuity, disaster recovery, audit, compliance, or technology risk activities.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 12+ years of 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, including Windows, Linux, cloud, virtualization, storage, containers, automation, mainframe, and database environments
- Experience managing large technical teams, concurrent delivery initiatives, budgets, vendor relationships, platform lifecycle planning, disaster recovery, and operational risk
- Strategic thinking and strong executive communication skills across operations, delivery, financial stewardship, risk management, and long-term planning
- Experience in retail, distribution, supply chain, or other large multi-site enterprise environments
- Experience with ITIL, service management, infrastructure automation, FinOps, or modernization
- Experience leading business continuity, disaster recovery, audit, compliance, or technology risk activities
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
Meijer Insights
What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
