The Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering leads global cloud transformation, cloud migrations, and establishes a self-service AI-driven infrastructure while managing cross-functional teams.
Position Title: Sr. Director of Infrastructure Engineering
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 42223
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
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.
What you'll be doing.
What you'll need to be successful.
About the team.
You will lead McCain's Global Infrastructure Engineering organization, a critical function within Global Technology. The team is responsible for cloud platforms, core infrastructure, reliability engineering, and AI-enabled operations across McCain's global manufacturing, supply chain, and corporate environments. This role partners closely with Application Engineering, SAP, Cybersecurity, Digital Manufacturing, and Business Technology leaders to enable scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms worldwide.
About McCain.
Click " target="_self">here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We're big believers in the power of working together in person-it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.
Compensation Package : $175,000.00 - $225,000.00 . CAD annually + Bonus eligibility + Long-term incentive eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know , and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Information Technology
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 42223
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
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.
What you'll be doing.
- 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.
What you'll need to be successful.
- 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.
About the team.
You will lead McCain's Global Infrastructure Engineering organization, a critical function within Global Technology. The team is responsible for cloud platforms, core infrastructure, reliability engineering, and AI-enabled operations across McCain's global manufacturing, supply chain, and corporate environments. This role partners closely with Application Engineering, SAP, Cybersecurity, Digital Manufacturing, and Business Technology leaders to enable scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms worldwide.
About McCain.
Click " target="_self">here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We're big believers in the power of working together in person-it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.
Compensation Package : $175,000.00 - $225,000.00 . CAD annually + Bonus eligibility + Long-term incentive eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know , and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Information Technology
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
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