Cloud Automation Engineer

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Mauldin, SC

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

Ahold Delhaize USA is seeking a Cloud Automation Engineer to join our team. This role involves utilizing cutting-edge automation tools and provisioning public cloud as Code. The engineer will work collaboratively with a team dedicated to defining and delivering cloud solutions that ensure security, reliability, availability, and self-service functions to meet the cloud platform needs of product development teams. The position requires providing technical leadership on automated deployments and self-service for various Azure services.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a practitioner of automation tools and provisioning public cloud as Code.
• Design, develop and modify code to deliver Azure Core Services with automation and infrastructure as code.
• Translate design decisions and architecture designs to code for continuous deployment and repeatability.
• Leverage DevOps and Cloud automation tools such as ARM Template, Bicep, Powershell, Terraform, Ansible, Salt Stack, Python, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions to deploy cloud solutions.
• Lead team's coding practices, release management, and branching strategies for delivering code.
• Collaborate with other 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 project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team.
• Utilize Agile and DevOps Processes and Principles, crafting CI/CD pipelines and converting builds to use native Azure build and release pipelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of IT experience focused on infrastructure including server, storage, network, security, and 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 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 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 No-SQL DBs, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Data, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Identity, and Connectivity.
• DevOps tool chain deployment, establishing 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 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 Azure AD, PIM, Conditional Access, MFA, Azure AD Connect, Passwordless 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Azure Solutions Architect - preferred
• Experience working in Product development/engineering teams.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives
• Total wellness programs encompassing physical, financial, and emotional wellness
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Collaborative work environment
• Continuous learning and development opportunities