PRINCIPAL ENGINEER- CLOUD PLATFORM

Ahold - Chicago, IL

Full-time

Remote - Chicago, IL

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

The Cloud Platform Engineer will serve as a thought leader within the Information Technology department, focusing on designing, building, managing, and operating Azure Core Services. This role emphasizes automation and infrastructure as code, ensuring security, reliability, and availability of cloud solutions for product development teams. The engineer will provide technical leadership in deploying Azure services and will work collaboratively within an agile scrum team to deliver effective cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, manages, and operates Azure Core Services with automation and infrastructure as code.
• Manages and automates the lifecycle of different platform components to support product teams.
• Leads engineering practices around test-driven and continuous delivery of infrastructure.
• Integrates different components and develops new services with a focus on customer needs.
• Evaluates performance trends and establishes scalability plans based on expected changes in demand.
• Identifies and troubleshoots availability and performance issues at layers of Azure Services and on-prem.
• Recommends and maintains Azure policies, governance, cost management guidance, and guardrails.
• Creates and documents low-level designs and standards on Confluence.
• Collaborates with Solution architecture, Platform engineering, and Product teams to deliver solutions.
• Works within a project management/agile scrum team in a leading role.

Requirements

• 8+ years of IT experience focused on infrastructure including server, storage, network, security, and identity.
• 4+ years of experience building, maintaining, and automating Azure environments in enterprise settings.
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as ARM, Terraform, JSON, PowerShell, and GitHub.
• 4+ years of hands-on technical experience with Azure Virtual Network, VWAN, Express route, Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, CDN, Azure DNS, and routing protocols like BGP.
• Experience with Azure Identity services including Azure AD, PIM, Conditional Access, MFA, and Microsoft Defender.
• Knowledge of Azure Governance, Security, Monitoring, Compliance, and cost awareness.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Machines, Containers, Kubernetes, and Azure Storage.

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on experience deploying Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture and its components.
• Experience in Full stack Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Operations, and Application Knowledge.
• Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and in a paired programming model.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, azcli, and GitHub.
• Design, configuration, and maintenance of Kubernetes environments using AKS.
• Technical expertise in Windows/Linux/VMware/Hyper-V/AKS, SQL and No-SQL databases.

Benefits

• Flexible/hybrid work schedule with 3 in-person days and 2 remote days.