Sr Director, Software Engineering - Foundational & Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (

About Gap Inc.Our brands bridge the gaps we see in the world. Old Navy democratizes style to ensure everyone has access to quality fashion at every price point. Athleta unleashes the potential of every woman, regardless of body size, age or ethnicity. Banana Republic believes in sustainable luxury for all. And Gap inspires the world to bring individuality to modern, responsibly made essentials.     This simple idea—that we all deserve to belong, and on our own terms—is core to who we are as a company and how we make decisions. Our teamis made up of thousands of people across the globe who take risks, think big, and do good for our customers, communities, and the planet. Ready to  learn fast, create with audacity and lead boldly? Join our team.About the RoleWe are looking for a highly seasoned and experienced technologist to own and drive transformation for our infrastructure from on prem/legacy stacks to cloud/modernized stacks. This includes owning our modernization and standardization of our infrastructure tools and services that enable all of our brands. This role is a critical member of the Technical Operations Leadership team, reporting to the Head of TechOps. In this capacity you will be leading in defining, delivering, operating, and evolving our on prem and cloud compute virtualization, storage, backup, database, middleware, data integration, network, and messaging infrastructure. You will directly influence and implement strategic improvements to Gap’s network architecture, cloud infrastructure and accountability to ensure high availability to Gap’s business.You are a transformative leader with deep technical infrastructure & hybrid cloud experience. You will drive a successful DevOps model, lead and be instrumental in driving our journey of adoption that will shift workloads from co-located data centers to a public cloud model through scalable infrastructure solutions. You will drive a holistic strategy and operations across all infrastructure functions to sunset legacy infrastructure, design and build next gen solutions to enable engineering, the business, and brands in their growth strategy. It will be important to strike the balance of operational excellence, growth, and experimentation by enforcing operational rigor while safely enabling innovation. Requires high partnership across other tech ops areas (service mgmt; end user Eng; automation framework); architecture, security, engineering platforms and product engineering.What You'll DoProvides executive leadership to support, grow, and empower the teams responsible for supporting On-premise compute servers, cloud infrastructure, public cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, data engineering and batch operations; strategic support and oversight over Infrastructure managed servicesLeads the infrastructure Team responsible for designing, building, deploying, and maintaining the IT infrastructure using the latest technology in a proactive way ensuring systems are fully operational for the organization. (Network, Cloud virtualization, Compute, Storage, Backup, Messaging Infrastructure, Data Integration, Middleware and Database)Models collaboration with the Product, Engineering, and Security teams to design and build world-class infrastructure that enables 24x7 high performance/ availability that focuses on reliability and scalability of our platformsDevelops key relationships with business units to coordinate efforts and activities to execute on the company’s technology growth strategy, hardware and software hygiene, and infrastructure scalabilityOversees planning and delivery of cloud infrastructure transformation initiatives & data center exits; develop goals aligned with customer needs, delivery speed, cost, and service objectivesLeads and drives planning to support high performance of our omni-channel experience.·Manages the infrastructure operating budget effectively to help us get faster, cheaper, and better in our operational footprintWho You AreExperience with Azure IaaS and PaaS services included but not limited to: VMs, Azure DevOps, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Firewall, Azure storage services, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Active Directory, or equivalent servicesExperience with infrastructure tools and orchestration for infra hardware, software, networking, data centers, virtualization & Cloud services, backup & Disaster recovery, monitoring and management - inclusive of legacy and modernized tools such as VM Ware, IBM DB2, Dell Power Edge, Pure Storage, Cohesity, VLANs, SDWAN, MPLS, etc.Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery and collaboration tools such as: GitHub, Jenkins, CodeFresh, Chef, Jira, Ansible, Terraform, Confluence, ServiceNow, and PagerDutyProven strategic mindset balanced with strong operational and implementation expertise; drive for results and desire to winMaintains a global perspective and is culturally sensitive and aware welcoming a diversity of ideas, approaches, and points of viewDrives innovative solutions for complex situations in a fast-changing environment.Proficient in management of services globalization – MSP modelProgressive technology leadership experience as well as relevant technical experience working in large scale infrastructure operationsPrevious related experience in a large matrix retail organization preferred – high aptitude, learning agilityBenefits at Gap Inc.Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.*Employee stock purchase plan.*Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*See more of the benefits we offer.*For eligible employees