Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 478731

Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza
Store Code: Infrastructure (5162840)


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 Principal Security Engineer is a senior technical leader who sets the vision, architecture, and standards for enterprise security across infrastructure, applications, data, and cloud platforms. This role defines security patterns, embeds security as code in delivery pipelines, and guides teams to design, build, test, deploy, and support secure solutions that are resilient, performant, user centric, and compliant. This includes securing hybrid environments that span on-premises data centers, Azure cloud services, and distributed operational environments such as retail stores and regional facilities.

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

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

Duties & Responsibilities

• Set enterprise security architecture, reference patterns, and guardrails for cloud, network, platform, and application domains, including hybrid and on-premises infrastructure.
• Design scalable controls and \"secure by default\" blueprints that teams reuse to accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt.
• Drive security as code practices, integrating automated controls into CI/CD pipelines and cloud native workflows.
• Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and security design reviews for complex initiatives and critical systems. Orchestrate incident response for high severity events, ensuring rapid triage, root cause analysis, and durable remediation.
• Standardize vulnerability management acr"]) self.__next_f.push([1,"ocery 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.