Infrastructure Engineer II (Compute & Storage)

ABOUT THE POSITION

Columbia Sportswear is powered by technology that connects four global brands, a worldwide supply chain, and 500+ retail stores. Our Columbia Digital Technology (CDT) organization is expanding its Global Capability Center (GCC) in India to help drive our next phase of compute and storage transformation.

We are seeking a Compute and Storage Infrastructure Engineer (P2) with strong on-prem expertise and a focus on virtualized environments, Windows and Red Hat Linux operating systems, storage, global files sharing and replication/resilience. In this role, you will help keep our Global On-Prem environment reliable, secure, and well-governed; partnering with and supporting other engineers through operational execution, documentation, and continuous improvement.

This is an operationally focused role with clear room to grow into a Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer through increasing ownership of architecture, automation, and cross-team technical leadership.

Because this role partners with global teams across North America, Europe, and Asia, excellent English communication (spoken and written) and experience working with international, distributed teams are essential.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

In this role, you’ll work as part of Columbia’s global Infrastructure Engineering team to design, build, secure, and operate enterprise hybrid environments.

You will:

• Operate and support our Global on-prem ecosystem, including incident response, triage, and escalation management
• Work with other engineers in deploying new or upgraded capabilities
• Support engineering teams by fulfilling operational requests, enabling safe changes, and providing Tier 2/3 on-prem platform support
• Continuously improve our services by being the voice of the customer
• Collaborate closely with cross regional partners to improve operational runbooks, standards, and automation that reduce toil and increase reliability
• Participate in on call rotations that follow the sun with your global engineering peers

YOU ARE

• A solid Infrastructure engineer passionate about secure, scalable, and innovative hybrid solutions
• A collaborator who enjoys working with global teammates across cultures and time zones
• A clear and confident communicator, in both spoken and written English and be able to work with technical and nontechnical audiences
• Someone who values documentation, standards, and process-driven engineering
• Familiar with IT Service Management (ITSM / ITIL), operations maturity, and enabling service teams
• A proactive, self-directed engineer who thrives in a dynamic, global environment
• An analytical thinker who emphasizes structure, quality, and repeatability

YOU HAVE

• Minimum 2–4 years of hands-on infrastructure engineering  and operations with a global environment
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related STEM field—or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience with a combination of the following: VMware, Windows Server OS, RedHat Linux, Commvault, Dell, Pure, Qumulo technologies
• Experience working with global or distributed teams (GCC/multinational experience is a plus)
• Experience with Jira, Confluence
• Strong automation bias
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions and automation tools such as Ansible and PowerShell
• Experience with ITSM/ITIL; exposure to Jira Service Manager is a plus
• Experience with Azure a plus

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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.