Infrastructure Cloud Network Engineer

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: "It's perfect. Now make it better." As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Although we're an apparel and footwear focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear's Digital Technology (CDT) group enable an IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores.

As Columbia's Infrastructure technologies evolve, we need to ensure we have a technically sound, innovative, and scalable plan to meet future demands. Our Infrastructure team is looking for an experienced Network Engineer working in the Azure and AWS Clouds with secondary experience in datacenter and campus networking.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• You will be an integral part of the global Infrastructure team responsible for designing, building, securing, and operating IT infrastructure at Columbia Sportswear.
• You will focus on engineering design and infrastructure projects in a multi-cloud environment with a smaller focus in operations escalation.
• You will be a vital member of the team responsible for our transformative and resilient global information technology.

YOU ARE

• An Azure and AWS network engineer that is passionate about transformative, innovative, resilient, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure technologies
• Someone that enjoys collaborative work and technical mentoring with peers and junior members of the infrastructure team
• An active listener and effective communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Someone with a strong affinity for creating and maintaining technical documentation
• Familiar with IT Service Management (ITSM / ITIL) and IT Operations and have experience enabling and operationalizing new technologies for service teams
• A self-starter and self-motivated
• An analytical thinker

YOU HAVE

• A minimum of 7 years of technical, hands-on experience in similar datacenter and infrastructure engineering roles
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or equivalent professional experience
• Significant experience and expertise in infrastructure design and build, particularly in Azure Cloud technologies and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, and VMware.
• Experience working with Agile principles, Scrum frameworks, and iterative planning using tools such as Azure DevOps
• Well-versed in infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, Ansible, PowerShell, TerraForm, and similar automation and orchestration technologies
• Familiarity with IT Service Management (ITSM / ITIL) and IT Operations and have experience enabling and operationalizing new technologies for service teams

#LI-JD1

Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.