PRINCIPAL ENGINEER- CLOUD PLATFORM

Company: Ahold Delhaize USA
Location: Chicago
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

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Category/Area of Expertise: Information Technology
Job Requisition: 387251_external_USA-IL-Chicago
Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza
Store Code: Greenville Data Center - It (5118634)

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Ahold Delhaize USA associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Primary Purpose

Cloud Platform engineer will serve as a thought leader, work with a team of individuals who are committed to define and deliver cloud solutions by providing security, reliability, availability, and self-service functions which deliver end-to-end cloud platform needs for product development teams.

You'll provide strong technical leadership and guidance in deploying and delivering various Azure services.

Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Duties & Responsibilities

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• Designs, builds, manages, and operates Azure Core Services with automation and infrastructure as code.
  
• Designs, builds, manages, and operates the continuous delivery framework and tools, manages, and automates the lifecycle of the different platform components and helps support product teams.
  
• Leads a team's engineering practices around test driven and continuous delivery of infrastructure.
  
• Integrates different components and develops new services with prioritized focus on customer needs.
  
• Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; and establishes scalability plans.
  
• Identifies and troubleshoots availability and performance issues at layers of Azure Services and on-prem.
  
• Recommends and maintains Azure policies, governance, cost management guidance and guardrails.
  
• Creates and documents low-level designs, as built and standards on Confluence.
  
• Collaborates with Solution architecture, Platform engineering and Product teams for delivering solutions.
  
• Works within a project management/agile scrum team in a leading role as part of a wider team.
  
  Qualifications
  
  
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• 8+ years of IT experience focused on infrastructure which includes server, storage, network, security, Identity.
  
• 4+ years of experience building, maintaining, and automating Azure environments in enterprise environments.
  
• 3+ years of experience with IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON, PowerShell, Github etc...)
  

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• Our ideal candidate is an expert with Terraform.
  
  
• 4+ years of hands-on technical experience supporting the following or related experience:
  
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  • Azure Virtual Network, VWAN, Express route, Load Balancer (L4/L7), Traffic Manager, CDN, Azure DNS, routing & routing protocols like BGP, firewall concepts.
    
  • Azure Identity including any of the following: Azure AD, PIM, Conditional Access, MFA, Azure AD Connect, Passwordless sign-ins, Microsoft Defender, key vault.
    
  • Azure Governance, Security, Monitoring, Workbooks, Compliance, and cost awareness.
    
  • Azure Virtual Machines, Containers and/or Kubernetes and/or OpenShift.
    
  • Azure Storage Account, Disk, Snapshot, Backup, Site Recovery, file sync, Data Lake.
    
    
  • Certifications: Azure Administrator (required), Azure DevOps (preferred), Azure Solutions Architect (preferred).
    
    Preferred Qualifications
    
    
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  • Hands-on experience deploying Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture and its components.
    
  • Experience in Full stack Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Operations, and Application Knowledge.
    
  • Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and work in a paired programming/engineering model.
    
  • Able to facilitate diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets.
    
  • Hands-on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, azcli, GitHub.
    
  • Design, configuration, and maintenance of Kubernetes environments using AKS.
    
  • Technical expertise in Windows/Linux/VMware/Hyper-V/AKS, SQL and No-SQL DB's, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Data, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Identity and Connectivity.
    
  • Worked in DevOps and Agile.
    
    Additional Information
    
    Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. When considered together, the companies of Ahold Delhaize USA comprise the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast and the fourth largest grocery retail group in the nation, serving millions of omnichannel customers each week.
    
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