Director, Infrastructure Engineering

Overview

At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others – and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

Responsibilities

The Director of Infrastructure Engineering will lead the modernization of the company’s infrastructure organization from a traditional, legacy operating model to a secure, automated, cloud-enabled infrastructure platform engineering function. This role oversees networking, virtualization, storage, IBM i, data center infrastructure, and cloud engineering. This hands-on leadership role requires a leader who can set strategy while remaining deeply engaged in architecture, engineering execution, migration planning, and operational support. The Director will build the practices, operating model, technologies, and team capabilities needed to advance cloud migration, automation, platform services, and technical debt reduction while enabling secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for the business. As with all positions at KeHE Distributors, we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE’s Mission, Vision, and Values.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, cloud engineering or platform engineering, including 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience leading complex infrastructure migrations from on-premises environments to Azure and/or AWS.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, configuration management, observability, and modern engineering practices at scale.
• Preferred experience with VMware workload migrations, data center exits, Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep/ARM, Ansible, PowerShell, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, SRE practices, SD-WAN, SASE, Zero Trust, and cloud-native networking.
• Relevant certifications across AWS, Azure, networking, security, or platform engineering certifications preferred.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.