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Gap Inc. is a leading global specialty retailer offering clothing, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children
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Sr Staff Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
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About the Role
The Build team makes it easier and faster to build high-quality applications at Gap by providing a comprehensive and opinionated set of development tools and CI/CD infrastructure.
Our objective is to maximize developer productivity by enabling streamlined workflows, robust source control management, intelligent automation, and the promotion of modern engineering best practices.
As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you'll lead the evolution and modernization of our GitHub infrastructure in collaboration with other engineering platform teams to create a seamless, AI-augmented developer experience.
What You'll Do
- Lead the evolution of our GitHub Enterprise infrastructure, focusing on modernization, scalability, and the adoption of advanced platform capabilities.
- Architect and implement config-as-code solutions (e.g., Terraform) to manage GitHub organizations, repositories, permissions, and policies at scale.
- Administer and optimize our GitHub Enterprise environment, ensuring reliability and performance for all engineering teams.
- Evaluate and enable GitHub's AI-powered development tools, including GitHub Copilot, Agent HQ, and emerging capabilities that enhance developer productivity and code quality.
- Develop and drive adoption of best practices for source control management, repository structure, branching strategies, and GitHub workflows across the organization.
- Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to establish governance policies and automation for our GitHub Enterprise platform.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support our build and deploy systems.
- Provide technical guidance, documentation, and training to help teams adopt new GitHub capabilities and workflows effectively.
- Monitor and improve the performance, reliability, and usability of our source control platform, incorporating feedback from users across the organization.
Who You Are
- You have 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on build engineering, CI/CD, and platform administration.
- You have significant hands-on experience administering and managing GitHub Enterprise Server in production environments, including upgrades, performance tuning, high availability configurations, and troubleshooting.
- You have experience with GitHub Enterprise Cloud, including organization management, security configurations, and platform administration (highly desirable).
- You are proficient with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform) and have experience managing platform configurations declaratively.
- You have deep expertise in Git and source control best practices, including experience guiding large organizations through Git workflow improvements.
- You are proficient with modern CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Artifactory, and related DevOps tooling.
- You have experience with Docker and Kubernetes in large-scale production environments.
- You're well-versed in major cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, etc.) and have a track record of leading infrastructure migrations at scale.
- You have significant experience leading complex, multi-team projects in distributed environments, with strong stakeholder management skills.
- You are passionate about developer experience and thrive on making complex workflows simpler, faster, and more reliable.
- You enjoy collaborating across teams and disciplines, and you're skilled at translating developer needs into scalable platform solutions.
- You take pride in building systems that are well-documented, maintainable, and widely adopted across the organization.
Manager, DevSecOps Engineering
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About the Role
In this role, you will lead the strategy, design, and delivery of security engineering solutions that protect the company's assets, infrastructure, and software supply chain. You will manage a team of security and DevOps engineers, driving a culture of security-first delivery across Cloud Security, CI/CD Pipeline Security, Product Security and Infrastructure Security. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Leadership to set direction and ensure the business ships software with speed and confidence.
What You'll Do
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of information security solutions across Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security & Product Security.
- Own the security strategy for CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, SAST/DAST scanning, dependency checks, and secrets detection — providing technical advisory and governance across hybrid, multi-cloud environments.
- Drive cloud security posture management, runtime protection, and code security through industry-leading cloud security and edge protection capabilities, ensuring continuous compliance and risk reduction.
- Define and enforce security policies, standards, and best practices that balance delivery speed with a strong security posture, in alignment with regulatory and legal requirements.
- Lead automation initiatives across cloud security processes, reducing manual effort and improving consistency at scale.
- Oversee API security standards and runtime protection across services and microservices architectures.
- Manage infrastructure security controls using infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration tooling, in line with container security best practices.
- Anticipate operational and program risks, developing preventative measures and driving rapid incident response across environments.
- Translate functional security requirements into technical roadmaps, guiding your team from strategy through to execution.
- Define, track, and communicate security metrics and key performance indicators — creating actionable insights from data to inform prioritization, demonstrate delivery effectiveness, and drive continuous improvement.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships with product and engineering squads, embedding security into development workflows and acting as a trusted security advisor at the leadership level.
Who You Are
- A proven leader with hands-on depth in DevSecOps or security engineering, and the ability to inspire, grow, and manage a high-performing team.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of infrastructure security practices, concepts, and technologies, with proficiency across cloud security capabilities and modern security methodologies.
- Experience governing CI/CD pipelines and authoring configuration management and deployment tooling across modern CI/CD platforms.
- Strong scripting and development skills across languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or Java.
- Solid understanding of cloud security concepts including network segmentation and secrets management across major cloud providers.
- Experience anticipating operational risks and driving preventative measures across complex, fast-moving engineering environments.
- A confident communicator who can translate security priorities to developers, stakeholders, and executives alike.
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning capabilities as applied to DevSecOps and infrastructure management — including AI-assisted threat detection, anomaly detection, intelligent vulnerability triage, and the use of AI-powered tooling to enhance security automation and operational insight — is considered a strong advantage.
- Background in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.
Senior Director - Reliability Operations
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The Senior Director - Reliability Operations, is a strategic leader accountable for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of the enterprise technology ecosystem. This role oversees all ITIL-based service management functions, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), the ServiceNow Platform, Mission Control, and Live Sight Insights.
This leader drives operational excellence through a proactive reliability strategy that combines process discipline, automation, observability, and real-time insights. They will partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and product teams to build and sustain resilient systems that power Gap Inc.’s digital and in-store experiences.
As a thought leader, the Sr. Director will shape the long-term vision for operational reliability and service management—defining modern capabilities, optimizing service performance, and establishing an innovation-driven reliability culture.
What You'll Do
Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Define and execute the enterprise Reliability Operations strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technology roadmaps.
- Lead transformation of ITIL functions into agile, data-driven service management capabilities across incident, problem, change, and configuration management.
- Partner with senior technology and business leaders to embed reliability and performance metrics into product development and operational planning.
Operational Excellence & Reliability Engineering
- Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices across platforms and services—driving automation, self-healing capabilities, and proactive monitoring to achieve measurable service resiliency improvements.
- Establish standards for availability, latency, scalability, and operational efficiency through engineering-driven reliability principles.
- Champion reliability by design—ensuring observability, capacity planning, and chaos testing are core to delivery processes.
Mission Control & LiveSight Insights
- Oversee the Mission Control organization responsible for real-time system monitoring, incident command, and critical event management.
- Drive adoption of Live Sight Insights to create predictive and actionable intelligence on service health and performance trends.
- Enable enterprise visibility of key metrics through intuitive dashboards and business-impact-based alerting models.
ServiceNow Governance Ownership
- Own the ServiceNow Platform governance strategy and roadmap, ensuring it enables ITIL process excellence, automation, and collaboration on cross-enterprise workflow integration.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to provide industry best practices for ServiceNow’s capabilities including IT, HR, Security, and Enterprise Operations.
- Lead a platform governance mindset—focusing on reliability, scalability, and ease of use.
People Leadership & Culture
- Build, inspire, and develop a high-performing global Reliability Operations team that embodies accountability, collaboration, and innovation.
- Foster a culture of data-driven decision making, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
- Serve as a mentor and coach to emerging leaders—raising the organizational bar for reliability engineering and service leadership.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Work closely with Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Business Technology teams to ensure reliability objectives are integrated end-to-end.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Program Management to align technology investments with reliability outcomes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on reliability strategy, risk posture, and performance health of the enterprise environment.
Who You Are
- Proven strategic leader with success driving operational transformation at scale in global, complex environments for more than 10 years.
- Deep expertise in ITIL frameworks, SRE principles, ServiceNow platform administration and architecture, and modern observability practices.
- Strong technical understanding across infrastructure, cloud operations, automation, and service management ecosystems.
- Exceptional ability to influence at all levels—translating technical reliability concepts into business impact and strategic value.
- Passionate about developing people and creating a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated track record of leading large, diverse teams and delivering measurable improvements in service reliability, performance, and user satisfaction.
- A high performing leader—operating with strategic agility, executive presence, and the ability to build organizational alignment through clarity, accountability, and purpose.
Sr Staff Data Architect
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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Retail Big Data Modeling Architect to join our Data Modeling & Architecture team. As a key member of this team, you will be designing and implementing robust data models that support our critical business functions, including supply chain optimization, customer loyalty programs, customer journey analysis, analytics reporting, and feature development for machine learning. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and stakeholders, to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and accessibility. Your expertise will drive the development of scalable and efficient data solutions that empower our organization to make informed decisions and achieve strategic objectives
What You'll Do
- Design and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for various domains, including supply chain, customer, product, sales, and financial data.
- Lead the development of data modeling standards, best practices, and guidelines. Develop end-to-end solution architectures for data-driven and AI-focused applications, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technology strategy
- Mentor and guide junior data modelers, providing technical expertise and fostering their professional growth.
- Design data models to support enterprise and operational reporting, enabling data-driven decision-making.
- Collaborate with data scientists to develop features for machine learning models, ensuring data quality and accessibility.
- Optimize data models for performance and scalability, supporting real-time analytics and reporting.
- Ensure data models comply with data governance policies and standards. Identify and define data quality checks and validation processes to maintain data integrity.
- Implement data quality monitoring and reporting mechanisms. Collaborate with data stewards to resolve data quality issues.
Who You Are
- Proven expertise in designing and implementing data models for supply chain, customer loyalty, customer journey, and analytics reporting.
- Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, star schema, snowflake schema, and other data warehousing concepts.
- Experience with NoSQL databases and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
- Proficiency in SQL and data modeling tools (e.g., ERwin, PowerDesigner, ER/Studio).
- Strong knowledge of machine learning concepts and applications
- Experience with agile development methodologies.
- Solid understanding of data governance, security, privacy, and compliance standards.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in agile project environments.