Sr. Director of Infrastructure Engineering

''•Toronto, ON

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering, you will be the architect of our digital future. As the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, you will lead the strategy, design, and execution of our global infrastructure transformation. We are moving fast to modernize our technology landscape, and we need a highly technical, strategic leader to drive our multi-year cloud migration, execute a complete data center exit, and build a self-service, AI-powered cloud platform. Your mandate is clear: eliminate infrastructure as a bottleneck. By leveraging your deep engineering background, you will establish a robust DevSecOps, SRE, and Agentic AI culture that enables our software engineering teams to ship faster, scale seamlessly, and operate with maximum agility. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where you will directly influence our supply chain resilience, factory floor connectivity, and global market growth.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, and data center engineering, with 5+ years in a senior Director-level or equivalent leadership role managing global teams.
Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-year cloud migrations and enterprise infrastructure transformations, including data center exit strategies.
Deep hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure, multi-cloud architectures, and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF); Azure certifications strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success executing an industrialized Azure Migration Factory approach at enterprise scale.
Strong background in DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
Advanced experience designing high-availability, cross-region architectures and comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Expertise in AI platform engineering, including GPU orchestration, containerized workloads (Kubernetes/Docker), LLM/SLM deployment, and prompt engineering.
Practical experience deploying GenAI, Agentic AI, and AIOps solutions to enable autonomous IT operations.
Strong financial acumen, including enterprise infrastructure budgeting, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
Exceptional executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value.

Nice To Haves

Azure certifications strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Own and deliver McCain’s multi-year global cloud and infrastructure transformation, including full data center exit and Azure-first modernization.
Lead enterprise-scale cloud migration programs in parallel with major initiatives such as SAP S/4HANA, ensuring infrastructure readiness and alignment to application milestones.
Architect and operationalize a secure, self-service, multi-cloud platform that enables rapid provisioning, DevSecOps automation, and developer productivity.
Establish and lead modern engineering practices across Infrastructure, including DevSecOps, SRE, observability, and high-availability / disaster recovery design.
Build and scale AI-enabled infrastructure platforms, including GPU-enabled environments, Kubernetes-based workloads, and AI-specific CI/CD pipelines.
Drive adoption of GenAI, Agentic AI, and AIOps to enable autonomous operations such as incident triage, root cause analysis, and self-healing infrastructure.
Translate complex technical architectures and migration progress into clear, compelling narratives for executive leadership and Board-level stakeholders.
Lead highly matrixed, global teams and partners across Technology, Security, Finance, Legal, and Manufacturing to remove blockers and deliver outcomes.