Cloud Automation Engineer

Introduction

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.

Overview

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.

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

Requirements

• 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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