Senior Manager, SRE Stores

Loblaw Companies Ltd - Head Office

Brampton, ON

Number of positions available : 1
Salary To be discussed
Full time
Published on November 5th, 2024
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Sr. Manager, SRE Stores, 1 Presidents Choice Circle - Brampton, On

We are seeking a Sr. Manager, SRE Stores to lead the strategy for retail stores’ hardware for 2500+ stores. This role is crucial to ensuring the successful installation, upgrade, build, and rebuild of retail hardware infrastructure across our network. As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for driving efficiency, scalability, and operational excellence using GitOps to manage deployments. You will be working with a small team to create and execute the strategy. This role reports into Director of Technology, SRE.

What You’ll Do:

Implement (with partners) and oversee the installation, upgrade, rebuild, and build of hardware across 2500 stores, ensuring a scalable, efficient, and timely rollout. Maintain our high-quality code base by performing code reviews, improving test coverage, automation, and general code quality

Implement GitOps workflows: Develop and manage hardware deployment processes through GitOps to ensure continuous, automated, and scalable hardware management.

Patch management and security: Collaborate with the security team to ensure hardware is patched regularly, vulnerabilities are addressed swiftly, and the environment remains secure.

Project management: Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to meet rollout objectives, ensuring minimal disruption to store operations.

Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with retail operations, SRE teams, and security teams to ensure hardware deployment aligns with company goals and security standards.
Vendor and partner management: Liaise with external hardware vendors, ensuring timely delivery of equipment, services, and support.

Documentation and reporting: Maintain comprehensive documentation for all hardware configurations, deployment processes, and security patches. Provide regular status updates to senior leadership.

What you Bring:

Hands on experience with software engineering, computer science, computer engineering or related technical field

7-10 years of experience in IT infrastructure or hardware deployment, with at least 3 years in a managerial role.

Strong understanding of GitOps methodologies and automation tools.

Experience managing large-scale hardware deployments, preferably in a retail environment.
Solid knowledge of patch management and working closely with security teams to address vulnerabilities.

Proven ability to manage complex, multi-location projects with tight deadlines.
Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Experience with retail technology, point-of-sale systems, or related hardware a plus.

Familiarity with DevOps tools and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Strong understanding of network infrastructure and hardware requirements for retail operations.

Experience in vendor management and negotiating contracts with external partners.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple priorities.

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars - Environment, Sourcing and Community - and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values - Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence - guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits - these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.