Director, Infrastructure Engineering & Cloud Transformation

About This Role

This role involves leading the enterprise-wide migration from on-premises infrastructure to AWS, modernizing the SAP landscape, and supporting Snowflake implementation, enabling AI and digital commerce capabilities. The Director will partner with leadership, architecting scalable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical leader for cloud transformation initiatives that enable scalable AI/ML workloads and digital commerce
• Define cloud architecture standards, migration strategies, and technology investment priorities aligned with the company’s digital transformation roadmap
• Guide application and platform leaders in evaluating workloads and determining migration approaches with long-term AI readiness and business value in mind
• Identify, evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and innovations, including generative AI and new AWS services to maintain competitive advantage
• Establish scalable cloud platform and Infrastructure-as-Code standards to enable consistent, repeatable, and secure deployments across teams
• Build and integrate CI/CD pipelines, embedding IaC into continuous integration and deployment workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Drive automation to improve reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery
• Establish and maintain cloud governance frameworks that enable rapid experimentation while ensuring security and compliance
• Oversee operational excellence through automation, cost optimization, and reduction of human error
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex technical challenges during migration and transformation initiatives
• Collaborate with SAP functional teams, AWS specialists, and implementation partners to deliver SAP ECC to SAP S/4 RISE on AWS migrations
• Own cloud financial management, including budget planning, cost optimization strategy, and vendor performance management
• Build and manage strategic relationships with cloud providers, implementation partners, and key vendors operational budgets, optimize cloud spend, and oversee vendor and partner relationships

Requirements

• 10+ years of IT infrastructure experience
• 5+ years in cloud technologies
• 3+ years in leadership roles managing technical teams
• Proven track record of successful large-scale cloud migrations (preferably AWS)
• Experience with SAP infrastructure and migrations
• Knowledge of AWS migration tools (Migration Hub, Application Migration Service, Database Migration Service)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar)
• Strong experience working with technology partners, system integrators, and managing operational budgets
• Experience successfully managing an operational budget
• Excellent prioritization, organizational, and decision-making skills
• Strategic thinking, conceptual problem-solving, and adaptability
• People management responsibility for reviews, performance management, training, and resource planning
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement across technical and business domains
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology or related work experience
• 10+ years of IT infrastructure experience with 5+ years in cloud technologies and 3+ years in leadership roles managing technical teams

Nice to Have

• SAP S/4 on RISE experience
• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Understanding of AWS AI/ML services (SageMaker, Bedrock, and emerging agentic AI capabilities)
• Strong understanding of SAP technical architecture and AWS deployment models
• Knowledge of networking, security, and compliance in cloud environments

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits