Engineering Manager, Monitoring Platforms

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 450511
Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza
Store Code: Devops (5158196)

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

Primary Purpose

Our team is leveraging the latest emerging technologies to craft the next-generation software core of Ahold Delhaize USA eCommerce and order fulfillment platforms. As a DevOps Manager, you will be responsible for leading and growing a team of talented engineers, and providing technical leadership in the areas of telemetry, logging, and tracing. You will collaborate with platform and product engineering teams to evolve our observability platform for the unified monitoring of thousands of Azure cloud and on-premises hosts and services.

Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Chicago, IL, and Quincy, MA.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as a key contributor to the implementation and optimization of observability platform and collaborate with engineers to effectively leverage Datadog.
• Support the development of a monitoring platform that identifies issues and anomalies in mission-critical systems with improved relevance and accuracy.
• Assist in defining and adopting observability standards and best practices, working towards their consistent application across the engineering organization.
• Support efforts to enhance the reliability and availability of critical systems while helping identify and address potential points of failure.
• Work closely with platform and product teams, providing technical guidance and support as needed.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering or systems engineering.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Datadog, Azure Monitor, and Splunk.
• Hands-on expertise in metrics, logging, tracing, profiling, alerting, and visualization.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and Monitoring-as-Code practices.
• Strong working knowledge of the Azure Cloud platform and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills, enabling you to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong eagerness to learn and explore beyond your current technology comfort zone.
• Self-motivated, independent, and detail-oriented, with a proactive approach to challenges.
• A commitment to fostering growth in yourself and those around you.
• Team-oriented mindset, with a focus on collaboration and achieving collective success.

Salary Range: $146,960 - $220,440
All ADUSA job offers take multiple factors into consideration including, but not limited to salary range, internal equity, a candidate's qualifications, geographic region, job-related knowledge and skills.
This position is eligible for an incentive bonus based on company performance as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.

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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent.

Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.

Our associates are the heartbeat of our organization. We are committed to offering a welcoming work environment where all associates can succeed and thrive. Guided by our values of courage, care, teamwork, integrity (and even a little humor), we are dedicated to being a great place to work.

We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.

Client-provided location(s): Chicago, IL

Job ID: Ahold_Delhaize-450511_external_USA-IL-Chicago

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-29T19:03:38