Azure Cloud Engineer III

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.


Primary Purpose

The Cloud Engineer III designs and implements cloud services and guardrails, automates routine operations, and improves reliability and developer experience.

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations are Salisbury, NC & Quincy, MA.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design reusable cloud modules and reference patterns.
• Implement policy enforcement and configuration baselines.
• Enhance observability and SLO/SLA reporting.
• Execute upgrades, patching, and change windows safely.
• Troubleshoot incidents and drive corrective actions.
• Document standards, golden paths, and runbooks.
• Collaborate with platform, security, and product teams.
• May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• 5+ years in cloud engineering or platform operations.

• 5+ years Production experience in Cloud technologies - Azure IaaS, PaaS, networking, Azure functions, Azure automation and runbooks, workbooks, Insights, Security center, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics.
  • Hands on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github

• Hands on with automation, IAM, networking, and core cloud services.
• Familiarity with containers/serverless and CI/CD.
• Strong problem solving and communication.
• At least 4 years of hands-on operational experience supporting the following or related experience:
  • 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 any of the following: Azure AD, PIM, Conditional Access, MFA, Azure AD Connect, Password less sign-ins, Microsoft Defender, key vault
  • Azure Governance, Security, Monitoring, Workbooks, 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Certifications
• Exposure to cost optimization and tagging standards.
• Understanding of backup/DR patterns in cloud.

Salary Range: $125,040 - $187,560


All ADUSA job offers take multiple factors into consideration including, but not limited to salary range, internal equity, a candidate's qualifications, geographic region, job-related knowledge and skills.


This position is eligible for an incentive bonus based on company performance as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.

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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent.

Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.

Our associates are the heartbeat of our organization. We are committed to offering a welcoming work environment where all associates can succeed and thrive. Guided by our values of courage, care, teamwork, integrity (and even a little humor), we are dedicated to being a great place to work.

We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.