Principal Engineer- Cloud Platform

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.

CHICAGO, IL

Ahold Delhaize USA

<p class="p1"><strong><br />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 &ndash; Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop &amp; 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.</strong></p> https://www.adusa.com/

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Full Time - Hybrid

Overview: <p>Cloud Platform engineer will serve as a thought leader, work&nbsp;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.<br />You&rsquo;ll provide strong technical leadership and guidance in deploying and delivering various Azure services.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.</p> <br /><br />
Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Designs, builds, manages, and operate Azure Core Services with automation and infrastructure as code</li> <li>Designs, builds, manages, and operates the continuous delivery framework and tools, manages, and automates the lifecycle of the different platform components and help support product teams</li> <li>Leads a team&rsquo;s engineering practices around test driven and continuous delivery of infrastructure</li> <li>Integrates different components and develop new services with prioritized focus on customer needs</li> <li>Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; and establish scalability plans</li> <li>Identifies and troubleshoots availability and performance issues at layers of Azure Services and on-prem</li> <li>Recommends and maintains azure policies, governance, cost management guidance and guardrails</li> <li>Create and document low-level designs, as built and standards on confluence</li> <li>Collaborate with Solution architecture, Platform engineering and Product teams for delivering solutions</li> <li>Work within a project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team</li> </ul>
Requirements: <br /> <ul> <li>8+ years of IT experience focused on infrastructure which includes server, storage, network, security, Identity</li> <li>4+ years of experience building, maintaining, and automating Azure environments in enterprise environments</li> <li>3+ years of experience of with IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON, PowerShell, Github etc&hellip;) <ul> <li>Our ideal candidate is an expert with Terraform</li> </ul> </li> <li>4+ years of hands-on technical experience supporting the following or related experience: <ul> <li>Azure Virtual Network, VWAN, Express route, Load Balancer (L4/L7), Traffic Manager, CDN, Azure DNS, routing &amp; routing protocols like BGP, firewall concepts</li> <li>Azure Identity including any of the following: Azure AD, PIM, Conditional Access, MFA, Azure AD Connect, Password less sign-ins, Microsoft Defender, key vault</li> <li>Azure Governance, Security, Monitoring, Workbooks, Compliance, and cost awareness</li> <li>Azure Virtual Machines, Containers and/or Kubernetes and/or OpenShift (infrastructure pers</li> <li>Netwpective)</li> <li>Azure Storage Account, Disk, Snapshot, Backup, Site Recovery, file sync, Data Lake</li> </ul> </li> <li>Certifications: Azure Administrator (required), Azure DevOps (preferred), Azure Solutions Architect (preferred)</li> </ul> <br />Preferred Qualifications<br /> <ul> <li>Hands on experience deploying Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture and its components</li> <li>Experience in Full stack Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Operations, and Application Knowledge</li> <li>Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and work in a paired programming/engineering model</li> <li>Able to facilitate diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets</li> <li>Hands on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github</li> <li>Design, configuration, and maintenance of Kubernetes environments using AKS</li> <li>Technical expertise in Windows/Linux/VMware/Hyper-V/AKS, SQL and N0-SQL DB&rsquo;s, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Data, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Identity and Connectivity</li> <li>Worked in DevOps and Agile</li> </ul> <br /> <br /><br />