Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We're looking for a Sr Director, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering. This role has responsibility and accountability for setting the vision, strategy, engineering, and delivery of Nike Global Managed Cloud Environment. This is a critical senior leadership role that will lead a transformation of Nike foundational infrastructure toward next-generation capabilities. In the role you will work across public cloud, hybrid cloud, and cdn/edge environments globally. A successful candidate will be a servant leader with technical expertise to deliver best-in-class data driven decisioning, agility, availability, resiliency, security, and performance in a cloud and edge infrastructure. Deliver those capabilities through clear communication, teamwork, creativity, strategic thinking, problem-solving, commitment, inclusion, and positivity. Experience building a culture and running a large, distributed organization. Proven track record of driving change and transformation in cloud and edge compute engineering technologies, tools, and processes through metrics-driven, KPI-based methodologies, and an evidence-based continuous improvement approach to best meet business objectives and priorities.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
In this role you will translate business strategies and objectives into strategic direction and plans, lead initiatives, develop talent, problem solve to ensure successful delivery, maintaining strategic partnerships, and manage budget. In addition, presenting the vision, strategies, roadmaps and progress to Senior and Executive Leadership. Through cross functional partnership you will create and deliver these capabilities in support of Retail, Digital, Logistics, Planning, Product, Manufacturing and Marketing. Ensure that engineering excellence, innovation, scale, and security are embedded within the culture. Identify and assess technology trends and articulate technology recommendations. Collaborate with Architecture and Product Management to develop a clear vision, outcomes, and roadmap for the future cloud and foundational capabilities transforming the organization into Products and Platforms through Self-Service, Platform Engineering, Automation and DevOps.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
This position will manage an enterprise organization comprise of Cloud Engineering, Edge Compute, IoT, CDN, Scheduler, Tagging, Image Management, Bot Management, and Backup/Storage reporting to the Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering. Working across Global Technology partnering with Global Architecture and Developer Platform, CIS, Technical Product Management, Technical Program Management, Digital, Retail, Marketing, Operations and Logistics, Planning and Manufacturing, Corporate Functions, and Geographies. In addition to partnering with key business stakeholders in Nike Direct, Supply Chain and Geographies.
WHAT YOU BRING
• 7 + years of experience as a people manager leading engineering teams, including having managers and managers of managers reporting into you.
• 15 – 18 years of experience in cloud technologies.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience. Advanced Degree Preferred (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD).
• Expertise in Public Cloud
• Expertise in Platform Engineering and DevOps
• Demonstrated technical knowledge of cloud technologies
• Prior experience migrating from a on prem to a Cloud Native infrastructure
• Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization, Configuration Management, IaC, CDN, DNS, Containers
• Edge Platform, Infrastructure as a Service Platform, Distribution Center Platform
• Engineering life-cycle management of software infrastructure
• Establish best-practice software engineering methodologies for a global, 24x7, high-volume, high-availability, critical production environment, based on metrics-based KPIs
• Develop software and infrastructure design and implementation roadmaps to meet the company's operations & infrastructure business goals and metrics for availability, resiliency and performance.
• Prior experience in improving stabilization of complex enterprise cloud
• Prior experience in working with highly-effective engineering teams through major technology transitions.
• Lead development of innovation and strategic direction in application of theories and concepts in cloud and edge compute design, configuration, administration, maintenance and/or support.
• Work closely with other departments to proactively ensure cloud engineering capabilities are capable of handling emerging and future business requirements.
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.
OUR HIRING GAME PLAN
01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
