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 team is 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 Role
We 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 cloud engineering tools and services that enable all of our product engineering teams. This role is a critical member of GapTech DevOps Leadership team, reporting to the Head of TechOps. In this capacity you will be leading in defining, delivering, operating, and evolving our compute, storage, database, and data integration infrastructure. We operate three primary development centers in the Bay Area, Ohio, and Hyderabad. You will directly influence and implement improvements to Gap’s cloud strategy and accountability to ensure high availability to Gap’s business.
You are a transformative leader with deep technical hybrid cloud experience. You will drive a successful DevOps model and will lead and be instrumental in driving our journey of adoption that will shift workloads from co-located data centers to a public cloud model as well as cloud initiatives across the enterprise. 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; network; end user Eng; automation framework); architecture, security, and development engineering.
What You'll Do
Provides executive leadership to support, grow, and empower the teams responsible for supporting On-premise compute servers, cloud strategy, public cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, data engineering and batch operations; strategic support and oversight over Infrastructure managed services
Leads 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. ( Cloud Engineering, Cloud Strategy & Services, Compute, Storage, 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 cloud platform
Develops key relationships with business units to coordinate efforts and activities to execute on the company’s Cloud strategy, hardware and software hygiene, and infrastructure scalability
Oversees planning and delivery of cloud transformation initiatives; develop goals aligned with customer needs, delivery speed, cost, and service objectives
Leads 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 footprint
Who You Are
Experience 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 services
Experience with container tools and orchestration – pivotal cloud foundry (PCF), Kubernetes, docker, YAML
Experience with API management platforms such as Apigee or equivalent
Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery and collaboration tools such as: GitHub, Jenkins, CodeFresh, Chef, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, and PagerDuty
Proven strategic mindset balanced with strong operational and implementation expertise; drive for results and desire to win
Maintains a global perspective and is culturally sensitive and aware welcoming a diversity of ideas, approaches and points of view
Drives innovative solutions for complex situations in a fast-changing environment.
Services globalization – MSP model
Progressive technology leadership experience as well as relevant technical experience working in large scale production operations
Previous related experience in a large matrix retail organization preferred – high aptitude, learning agility
Benefits 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.*
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*For eligible employees
Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.
Salary Range: $187,800 - $288,500 USD
Employee pay will vary based on factors such as qualifications, experience, skill level, competencies and work location. We will meet minimum wage or minimum of the pay range (whichever is higher) based on city, county and state requirements.
US Candidates
Please note that effective, June 30, 2022, Gap Inc. will no longer require any of its employees to wear face masks or require proof of COVID vaccination, unless required by local or state/provincial mandates or as part of Gap Inc’s quarantine guidelines after being exposed to or testing positive for COVID. Therefore, please disregard any language in any job posting that refers to Gap Inc.’s face mask and proof of vaccination policy as said policy is no longer effective.