
Senior Director, Infrastructure and Operations Engineering
DICK'S Sporting Goods
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $153,700 - $285,300 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead enterprise network engineering across stores, distribution centers, data centers, cloud, SaaS, and corporate locations
- Own data center operations (facilities, compute, storage, virtualization, resiliency) across two primary data centers
- Manage WAN, internet, telecom, and carrier services, including lifecycle, resiliency, and cost optimization
- Ensure high availability, low latency, and secure connectivity for mission-critical retail and digital workloads
- Drive modernization of infrastructure and network services aligned to cloud-first and SaaS-first strategies
- Own enterprise reliability execution, including 24x7 operational readiness and incident response
- Lead SRE execution and operational resilience, in partnership with platform and product teams
- Drive incident reduction, MTTR improvement, and operational learning through disciplined practices
- Ensure systems are designed and operated to meet availability, performance, and recovery objectives
- Lead capacity planning and resiliency testing to support peak retail demand
- Establish and lead the Test Engineering CoE as a production risk reduction function
- Own enterprise test strategy across functional and non-functional domains
- Drive test automation at scale, including performance, resilience, and regression testing
- Ensure quality signals and release readiness criteria are defined and consistently applied
- Partner with DevOps and platform teams to embed testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Reduce defect leakage and operational risk through engineering-led quality practices
- Lead and develop multi-disciplinary teams across infrastructure, network, reliability, and quality engineering
- Operate infrastructure and reliability capabilities as long-lived platforms, not reactive services
- Partner with Cloud Platform, Store Technology, ITSM, Security, and Product leaders to deliver end-to-end outcomes
- Support global and hybrid operating models, including collaboration with a Global Capability Center (GCC)
- Establish clear ownership, accountability, and escalation models for operational services
- Drive a culture of operational excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 15+ years experience in Progressive Technology, network engineering, data center operations, and hybrid infrastructure
- Proven leadership in large-scale operational and reliability organizations
- Strong experience with SRE execution, incident management, and resilience engineering
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise test engineering or quality organizations
- Experience supporting mission-critical, revenue-impacting systems
- Strong executive presence and cross-functional leadership skills
Benefits
- generous suite of benefits
- incentive
- equity
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
network engineeringdata center operationscloud computingSaaStest automationincident managementresilience engineeringcapacity planningperformance testingregression testing
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional leadershipoperational excellenceaccountabilitycontinuous improvementexecutive presence
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree