Hybrid Director, Infrastructure Engineering – Cloud Transformation

at Breakthru Beverage Group

• Job title: Director, Infrastructure Engineering – Cloud Transformation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $160,000 - $200,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Jenkins, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cicero, United States

About the role

• Director of Infrastructure Engineering leading enterprise-wide migration to AWS and supporting SAP modernization at Breakthru Beverage Group. Focus on AI and digital commerce capabilities.

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.
• 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

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology or related work experience.
• 10+ years of IT infrastructure experience with 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 (SAP S/4 on RISE experience highly preferred).
• 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.

Benefits

• This position is eligible to participate in a bonus program.
• This position is eligible for health care benefits.
• Life insurance.
• Time off benefits.
• Participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan.