IT Engineer Cloud Platform

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 478319
Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2110 Executive Drive
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 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

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.

The Cloud Platform Engineer IV will provide strong technical leadership and guidance in deploying and delivering various Azure services.

• Designs, builds, manages, and operate 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
• Integrate different components and develop new services with prioritized focus on customer needs
• Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; and establish 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
• Create and document low-level designs, as built and standards on confluence
• Collaborate with Solution architecture, Platform engineering and Product teams for delivering solutions
• Work within a project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team

• 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, AZ cli, GitHub
• Design, configuration, and maintenance of Kubernetes environments using AKS
• Technical expertise in Windows/Linux/VMware/Hyper-V/AKS, SQL and N0-SQL DB's, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Data, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Identity and Connectivity
• Worked in DevOps and Agile
• 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 of with IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON, PowerShell, GitHub etc...)

• Certification in Azure Administrator

• At least 4 years of hands-on technical experience supporting the following or related experience:

• • 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, Password less 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 (infrastructure perspective)
  • Azure Storage Account, Disk, Snapshot, Backup, Site Recovery, file sync, Data Lake

• Azure Certifications ( Azure DevOps, Azure Solutions Architect, etc...)