Chris Boyle
Vice President @ Starbucks | Infrastructure Engineering & Operations
- Role
- Vice President, Infrastructure, Engineering, and Operations at Starbucks
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Boyle
With over 25 years of technical engineering and management experience, I am a seasoned leader in the field of infrastructure and operations. I have a broad technology background that enables me to partner with various teams across the enterprise and deliver complex business solutions.As the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering & Operations at Starbucks, I am responsible for the core infrastructure across offices, manufacturing, distribution, data centers, and cloud. I oversee the network, compute, storage, backup, recovery, DDI, remote access, and ITSM services for Starbucks. I also manage vendor relationships, team development, operational excellence, service resiliency, and strategic planning, all while building trusted relationships and aligning with the company\'s values and goals.I recently transitioned to Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering & Operations leading all Core Infrastructure Engineering, North America Service Desk, Major Incident Response, ITSM (change, incident, problem, knowledge), Asset Management, Service Resiliency, End User Compute, and A/V solutions.
Experience
Vice President, Infrastructure, Engineering, and Operations
Nov 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Leading the Infrastructure Engineering & Operations organization through Continuous Improvement methodologies, Infrastructure as Code, Product & Services resiliency, focused Standardization, world class Service Desk operations, and elevated technology support. My teams are critical to the success of Corporate Offices, Manufacturing Plants, Distribution Centers, Private Data Centers, Global Connectivity, Retail, and Partner Experience.
Skills
- Information Security
- System Deployment
- Itil
- Firewalls
- Cloud Computing
- Disaster Recovery
- Cisco Technologies
- Security
- Enterprise Software
- Cisco Ios
- Wan
- Cisco Systems Products
- Switches
- Wireless Networking
- IT Management
- Asa
- Troubleshooting
- Vendor Management
- Data Center
- Enterprise Network Security
- Software Documentation
- Technical Support
- Communication Skills
- Information Technology
- Network Design
- IT Operations
- Vpn
- System Administration
- Management
- Virtualization
- Cisco Firewall Security
- Network Security
- Routers
- Routing (Bgp, Ospf, Eigrp)
- Networking
- Dns
- Integration
- Network Administration
- Technical Leadership
- Cisco Asa
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