Manager Cloud Services -AZURE

Delhaize America - Quincy, MA

Full-time - Manager

Hybrid - Quincy, MA

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for its Cloud Engineering group. This role involves leading, building, and coaching a team responsible for developing an enablement platform for cloud services. The Engineering Manager will oversee Engineering, Automation, and Cloud adoption functions to provide cloud services to the business. The position requires global collaboration with leaders, managers, and engineers across different regions to support and drive effective engineering efforts in the US. The successful candidate will shape the future of the developer experience by creating user-friendly, re-deployable templates, self-service options, and tools that facilitate easy and secure cloud usage. This role demands a blend of technical skills in Cloud and people management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud solutions that include Core Azure Services, Container platforms, Networking, Security, Cost management, Operating systems, Web applications, and data services.
• Define clear and actionable problem statements to help teams deliver results while displaying a comprehensive understanding of iterative software delivery.
• Own and prioritize the near-term product roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, quickly identifying points of leverage in complex problems or systems.
• Work with teams that practice DevOps and Agile delivery, Development engineering, and SRE mindset.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and build trust throughout the organization, including with senior leadership.
• Act as a sounding board for team members seeking direction and help avoid pitfalls in adopting new cloud services, methodologies, and technologies.
• Drive technical projects and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Plan and manage departmental budget and performance reviews of associates.
• Contribute to team culture and recruiting by leading activities to attract and retain top talent and mentoring junior product associates.
• Collaborate with Solution architecture, Platform Reliability engineering, Managed service providers, and Product teams for delivering solutions.
• Formulate and advocate for a clear, impactful product vision and strategy, working cross-functionally to deliver on that roadmap.

Requirements

• Experience crafting, implementing, and operating highly scalable and reliable platform solutions on public cloud like Azure or AWS.
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies, preferably Azure, including design and best practices for securing cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience managing Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture implementations.
• Experience in Full stack Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Operations, and Application knowledge.
• Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and paired programming/engineering model.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, azcli, GitHub.
• Experience working with and automating enterprise scale cloud infrastructure deployments.
• Prior experience working in/with DevOps, Agile, and automation and SRE teams.
• Prior experience managing Infrastructure and software development or DevOps teams with an automation focus.
• Strong negotiation skills and stakeholder management abilities.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years' experience in Infrastructure technology solutions, DevOps, Agile development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies.
• 5+ years of experience leading, managing, supporting, maintaining, and automating private and public cloud environments.
• 3+ years in management roles, managing resources, projects, and budgets.
• 3+ years of experience using IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON, YAML, PowerShell, GitHub, etc.).
• Certification in Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps, or Azure Solutions Architect.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives.
• Total wellness programs encompassing physical, financial, and emotional wellness.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Collaborative and continuous learning environment.