Director Software Engineering, Runtime and Cross-Plane Engineering, ITC

About the role

Nike is looking for an experienced engineering leader to head its Cloud Runtime and Control Plane engineering team in the India Technology Center. You will report to the Senior Director of Cloud Runtime and Control Plane Engineering and manage two specialized teams that provide managed cloud compute, network, storage and edge functionality. The role focuses on Kubernetes-based control plane foundations and operations, with a strong emphasis on operational excellence, automation and toil reduction.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical vision for the cloud infrastructure platform with counterparts in other geographies, and turn business strategy into technical direction and delivery plans.
• Lead and grow the local engineering team of individual contributors and managers, and present vision, roadmaps and progress to senior and executive leadership.
• Drive the move from unmanaged to managed cloud resources using declarative technologies, and build multi-cloud control plane architectures with Terraform, Crossplane and Kubernetes operators.
• Create self-service platforms and automation through Platform Engineering and DevOps, and implement security-first cloud governance with Corporate Security.
• Manage compute, network, storage (including enterprise backup), DNS and CDN resources, and build Kubernetes-based orchestration platforms.
• Manage CI/CD automation via Jenkins, Azure DevOps and GitHub, and modernize observability tooling.
• Apply SRE principles, use AI to reduce toil, and maintain 24x7 on-call coverage.

Required profile

• 15+ years of progressive engineering experience, with at least 5 in a leadership role.
• BS/MS degree in a technical discipline such as CS or EE.
• Proven track record leading platform engineering organizations and scaling them with self-service capabilities.
• Experience partnering with infrastructure consumers, security teams and product management, and managing budgets and talent.
• Experience with globally dispersed teams in a matrixed organization and with cloud networking and compute governance.

Required skills

• Deep AWS expertise with advanced VPC design, subnetting, routing and security groups.
• Azure integration and networking, and IaC with Terraform and Crossplane.
• Kubernetes cluster management, networking and deployment patterns.
• CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Platform Engineering, DevOps, configuration management, SRE, and knowledge of CDN, DNS, containerization and Edge Platform technologies.