DICK'S Sporting Goods

Senior Director, Infrastructure and Operations Engineering

DICK'S Sporting Goods

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $153,700 - $285,300 per year

Job Level

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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

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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