Sr. Dir Cloud & Data Center Eng. & Ops

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Position Title: Sr. Dir Cloud & Data Center Eng. & Ops 

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Position Location: Oakbrook Terrace 

Requisition ID: 29475 

 

 

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Our Global Technology team’s goal is to leverage technology and data to drive profitable growth, focus on enhancing customer experience and to further our purpose of 'Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food'.  McCain has embarked on an ambitious digital transformation across our business from Agriculture to Manufacturing and commercial capabilities to enhance our Customer obsession.  As part of this transformation, we are making significant investments into our digital platforms, technology transformations and in building a data driven culture.  We are building digital products for our customers, suppliers/growers, and McCain team members to enable digital processes and data-driven automation.  Through our investments, we will transform McCain into a company that empowers our teams with easy-to-use systems which will help them collaborate better, be productive and make data driven decisions.  Will you be part of this exciting journey?

 

Our Global Technology team’s goal is to inspire growth through innovative use of technology and data. McCain has embarked on an ambitious digital transformation across our business from Agriculture, Manufacturing, Supply Chain to how we serve our customer and consumers. 

 

 

This technical leader will be a strategic member of the infrastructure and technology Team and will partner with other

members to drive the strategic digital agenda for the company. Reporting to the VP, Infrastructure Engineering and Operations, this leader will be responsible for building and executing the strategy and vision for cloud, software defined infrastructure, zero-trust security and automated operations. This role will lead global infrastructure and application operations and will set our Cloud and Infrastructure strategy, and deliver all infrastructure services on time, on budget, and of maximum quality and meeting all SLAs. Drawing on advanced experience and skills with technology and governance, this leader will lead our technology through vital infrastructure and operational transformation, serve as a strategic thought leader overseeing infrastructure and outsourced managed services providers.

 

• Establish strategy and vision across the Infrastructure and Operations team. Lead the strategy, design and deployment

of a multi-cloud infrastructure, including software defined scalable compute, storage, and network systems to support

our move to cloud and API architecture

• Partner with Service Providers and technology vendors to ensure SLAs are met, programs are delivered in a timely

manner with best in class end-user experience is delivered

• Partner with the Digital business transformation leader to architect an agile landscape strategy

• Modernize our network footprint with SD WAN roadmap and leverage advances in 5G to optimize the edge footprint for

Digital manufacturing needs

• Modernize the security focusing on Cloud, API, authentication and authorization and DLP technologies

• Lead the workplace transformation to adopt to new ways of working and provide best in class experiences to our end

users wherever they choose to work

• Evaluate and transform as needed the Unified Communication and collaboration technologies in light with changing

collaboration needs

• This leader will have ongoing cost transformation mindset and will drive year on year cost reduction initiatives

• Transform Application operations and evolve to a DevSecOps model. Provide the infrastructure foundation for software

defined cloud native development.

• Enable infrastructure innovation and seek to leverage latest trends that can create business value consistent with the

company’s requirements and expectations, to include SaaS services for rapid service delivery and to minimize capital

infrastructure investments.

 

• Will play technical leadership role in defining enterprise standards and technology architecture and the IT operations governance process

• Lead a consistent, measurable process to operationalize and scale critical initiatives with execution excellence

• Provide leadership and guidance in infrastructure management, network communications, application development and service management that enables the organization to meet its business objectives.

• Lead a distributed team responsible for running a 24x7x365 Infrastructure and Applications Operations organization with staff located in multiple locations across the globe.

• Ensure operations are efficient, customer focused, within budget and are supporti