Cloud Engineer (Azure)

$98,600 - $157,500/Yr

Walgreens Boots Alliance - Deerfield, IL

Full-time - Entry Level

Deerfield, IL

5,001-10,000 employees

Health and Personal Care Retailers

About the position

The Cloud Engineer (Azure) role at Walgreens involves implementing and maintaining software solutions within an Agile environment, focusing on digital applications and components that support the business. The position requires independent judgment and the ability to work on both basic and complex systems, contributing to the design, architecture, and development of high-quality deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Creates, develops and maintains software code working in an agile environment.
• Completes programming and performs testing and debugging applications.
• Develops software applications and tools using Agile development methodologies.
• Participates actively in the design, architecture and build phases to produce high quality deliverables.
• Evaluates compatibility of programs with existing communications hardware and software features.
• Resolves a variety of issues applying company policies and procedures.
• Works on problems of moderate scope requiring analysis of various factors.
• Builds productive internal/external working relationships.
• Receives general instructions on routine work and detailed instructions on new projects.
• Demonstrates proficiency in several areas of technology functions with little guidance.
• Interacts with internal and external peers to exchange semi-complex information.
• Gathers and updates necessary information and communicates to appropriate parties.
• Acts as an individual contributor and a collaborative team member.
• Researches online to identify patterns and solutions to problems.
• Anticipates, prevents, and eliminates problems and creates efficient fixes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or similar field, or High School/GED and at least 4 years in Engineering, Software Engineering, or similar field.
• Experience writing code for applications or automation for repeatable processes.
• Experience with programming languages for creating components for Cloud, microservices, APIs or mobile applications.
• Experience building, testing scalable and resilient applications or automation.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Understanding of working in a shared/team development environment.
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures, operating systems, and the OSI model.
• Experience creating coding solutions to fix moderate problems/issues.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology or similar field.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• DevOps experience with 1+ years in Deployment automation for IaaS or PaaS services.
• Hands-on experience in automation software like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or equivalent.
• Good knowledge of GIT workflows and Repo management.
• Excellent knowledge in implementing CI/CD pipelines for Cloud deployments using containers/Docker.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and microservices architecture.
• Experience with full stack development from front-end user interfaces to back-end systems.
• Proficient in back-end languages like Java, Node/Typescript, .NET, Python, etc.
• Excellent knowledge of distributed SQL and NoSQL design & consumption patterns.
• Exposure to implementation, capacity planning & performance tuning of Cloud technologies - Azure, Google, IBM, AWS or Cloud Foundry.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Employee discount programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development opportunities