Manager Cloud Services -AZURE

Delhaize America - Mauldin, SC

Full-time - Manager

Hybrid - Mauldin, SC

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

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. The ADUSA Cloud Engineering group is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to help lead, build, and coach the team responsible for developing enablement platform for cloud services. As a leader of this group, you will be leading Engineering, Automation and Cloud adoption functions to provide cloud services to the business. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of our developer experience by creating user-friendly, re-deployable templates, self-service options, and tools that make cloud usage easy and secure. Success in this role requires highly technical skills in Cloud, not just people management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud solutions that includes 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, capable of thin-slice MVP grooming.
• Own and prioritize the near-term product roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, quickly identifying points of leverage in complex problems or systems and utilizing data effectively to define success metrics and measurable outcomes.
• Work with teams that practice Devops and Agile delivery, Development engineering and SRE mindset.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and a proven ability to build strong relationships and trust throughout the organization, including with senior leadership.
• Act as a sounding board for the team members looking for direction, and help to avoid pitfalls in adopting new cloud services, methodologies and or 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 and developing 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 and work cross-functionally to deliver on that roadmap.

Requirements

• Experience crafting, implementing, and operating highly scalable and reliable platform solutions at scale on the public cloud like Azure or AWS.
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies preferably Azure, including design, standard methodologies around securing cloud environments and hands on experience with IAC and SDLC models.
• 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 work in a paired programming/engineering model.
• Able to manage diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets.
• 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 automation focus.
• Negotiation skills, stakeholder management and strong ability to manage opposing viewpoints.
• Willingness to engage in discourse, ability to build strong business cases and understand various tradeoffs in architectural discovery engineering.
• Asks questions to encourage others to think differently and enrich their analyses of complex situations.

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 -preferred, Azure DevOps -preferred, Azure Solutions Architect -preferred.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are infused in our business.
• Total wellness, which encompasses a blend of physical, financial and emotional wellness.
• Collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning.
• Personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth.