Director, Engineering (Hybrid Work Schedule)

Position at Parts Town

See What We’re All About

As the fastest growing distributor of foodservice equipment parts, we like to do things a little differently. We believe our team should be like family.

Not like a second cousin, twice removed, but more like the family you choose to be with every day. First, you have to demonstrate our core values and keep safety as your #1 priority, that’s key.

But we’re also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change and if you know a few jokes, that puts you on the top of our list.

Do you have a genius-level knowledge of foodservice equipment parts? If not, no problem! We’re more interested in passionate people with fresh ideas from different backgrounds.

That’s what keeps us at the top of our game. We’re proud that our workplace has been recognized for its growth and innovation on the Inc.

5000 list, fifteen years in a row, and the Crain’s Fast 50 list ten times. We are honored to be voted by our Chicagoland team as a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace for three consecutive years in 2020,2021, and 2022.

If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond and put your ambition to work, all while having some fun, let’s chat Apply Today!

Perks

• Parts Town Pride check out our and
• Quarterly profit-sharing bonus
• Hybrid Work schedule
• Team member appreciation events and recognition programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Monthly IT stipend
• Casual dress code
• On-demand pay options : Access your pay as you earn it, to cover unexpected or even everyday expenses
• All the traditional benefits like health insurance, 401k / 401k match, employee assistance programs and time away don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

The Jobat aGlance

Our Director of Engineering will drive all things Cloud Engineering & SRE. Strategic planning, cloud architecture, managing budgets, fostering deep connections and collaboration across teams to deliver impactful initiatives and drive excellence in all areas.

Bringing a continuous improvement mindset to life - you'll evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, our processes and people-needs to position us for success and maximize our operational efficiency.

A Typical Day

Champion a culture of quality, excellence and innovation with a continuous improvement

foundation

Attract, develop, motivate and retain top talent; keeping performance management top of

mind; Foster a continuous learning mindset

Distill strategic functional and organizational opportunities, influence and persuade others

to support them

Conductcapacity planning assessments to ensure systems can handle anticipated growth and

optimizing systems performance to meet service level objectives

Define yearly OKRs for your function, aligning them to organizational mission, vision and

goals; Drive strong team alignment

Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, ensuring we are best positioned to

maximize their usage or to know that we should avoid them entirely

Identify, nurture and maximize vendor partnerships to drive our engineering and business

needs

Develop, drive and deliver function and organization wide initiatives, driving maturity and

excellence in all areas

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, prioritize

initiatives, and drive alignment towards common goals

Measure the effectiveness and efficiency of our processes seek to distill and drive

improvement opportunities across the board

To Land This Opportunity

• 5+ years in a leadership and management position
• You can master one or more cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and cloud native tooling Kubernetes,

Docker, Terraform / OpenTofu, TFLint, Ansible, Packer, OPA, Terragrunt, Consul, Vault, KMS etc

You have a deep understanding of various technical domains, including systems architecture, cloud

networking concepts (. VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancing, Firewalling (including WAF),

and security groups); Should be proficient in designing, building and maintaining complex and

scalable systems

You are an expert on cloud security best practices, including identity and access management

IAM), encryption, and security group configurations, SAST & DAST tooling (CrowdStrike,

Prisma Cloud etc)

You have led ITIL4-centric incident management processes coordinating cross functional teams to

resolve issues quickly and minimize impact; coordinating Problem Management actions post

incident

• You have experience with disaster recovery and resiliency patterns and procedures
• You’re knowledgeable of best practices, SLA / O / I’s, Golden Signals, monitoring and alerting, escalations etc
• You are passionate about cloud monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK / ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty / OpsGenie etc
• You demonstratable experience in building high performing teams and talented individuals
• Bonus Points if you have a degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent, relevant industry certifications

About Your Future Team

The Ecommerce team is a fast-growing group that embraces the rapid change that comes with incredible growth. We bring our whole selves to work each day - personality and all - in true Parts Town style.