Cloud Automation Engineer

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 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 automation engineer will serve as a practitioner of cutting-edge automation tools and provisioning public cloud as Code, 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 cloud platform needs for product development teams.
You'll provide technical leadership on automated deployments and self-service for delivering various Azure 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 are Salisbury, NC; Chicago, IL; Quincy, MA.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Duties & Responsibilities
Infrastructure as Code mindset. All resources and policies deployed into the various cloud accounts will need to be managed with Code, automate solutions, removing toil whenever possible.

• Design, develop and modify code to deliver Azure Core Services with automation and infrastructure as code
• Translate design decisions, architecture designs to code for continuous deployment and repeatability
• Leverage the latest DevOps and Cloud automation tools such as ARM Template, Bicep Powershell, Terraform, ansible, salt stack, python, Azure DevOps, and/or GitHub Actions to deploy cloud solutions
• Strong dedication to high quality and standards for your code and your team's code.
• Leads team's coding practices, release management, branching strategies for delivering code
• Collaborate with other passionate individuals on automation strategy and best practices
• Create and document low-level designs, as built and standards on confluence
• Collaborate with Solution architecture, Platform engineering and Product teams for delivering IaC
• Work within a project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team
• Utilizes Agile and Devops Processes and Principles, Crafts CI/CD pipelines; converting builds to use native Azure build and release pipelines

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, CIS or related (or equivalent related work experience)
• 5 or more years of experience in relevant job or field of technology. Experience in an advanced role or technical capacity. Experience, directly or indirectly, guiding, mentoring or training members in relevant technologies, capabilities or skills
• 7+ years of IT experience focused on infrastructure which includes server, storage, network, security, Identity
• 3+ years demonstrated experience in automation, configuration management, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code by deploying modern public/private cloud services across a broad range of technologies
• 2+ years of experience of with IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON,YAML, PowerShell, git, Github enterprise etc)
• Engineering expertise with DevSecOps practices like Infrastructure as code, End to end cloud resource lifecycle (CI/CD), service integration experience and Development of infrastructure templates (ARM, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Deployment Manager)
• Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and work in a paired programming/engineering model
• Hands on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github
• Technical understanding of 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
• DevOps tool chain deployment, establish CI/CD tools, code repository, code scanning, artifact repo, compliance scanning, packaging, deployment, and configuration management
• Able to facilitate diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets
• At least 2 - 4 years of hands-on technical experience building code for 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, Policies, 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, HDInsights, Databricks, Data factory
• Certification in Azure Administrator required
• Azure DevOps required

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Solutions Architect -preferred
• Experience working in Product development/engineering teams
• Masters Degree in relevant field of study, Additional trainings or certifications in relevant field of study
• Experience in Agile teams and or Product/Platform based operating model.Experience in retail or grocery.Experience in leading teams.

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ME/NC/PA/SC Salary Range: $92,640 - $138,960
IL/MA/MD Salary Range: $106,480- $159,720
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.
We offer an experience where our associates are valued; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are infused in our business and our employees are representative of the communities that we serve. We believe in total wellness, which encompasses a blend of physical, financial and emotional wellness.
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.
Job Requisition: 400696_external_USA-IL-Chicago