Principal Engineer – Azure Cloud Platform

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary

THE PRINCIPAL ENGINEER – AZURE CLOUD PLATFORM IS A HANDS-ON INDIVIDUAL

CONTRIBUTOR AND TECHNICAL LEADER RESPONSIBLE FOR DESIGNING, DEVELOPING, AND

ENHANCING WALGREENS’ ENTERPRISE CLOUD PLATFORM ACROSS MICROSOFT AZURE AND THE

COMPANY’S PRIVATE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT.

This role creates scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions that

enable application and business teams to deploy services effectively across

cloud environments.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

* Lead the technical direction and solution design for highly complex cloud

initiatives spanning multiple systems, processes, and teams.

* Design reusable infrastructure solutions for application and business teams

deploying into Microsoft Azure and Walgreens’ private cloud environment.

* Work hands-on with Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service

(AKS), infrastructure-as-code, cloud networking, deployment automation, and

containerized environments.

* Help develop and enhance cloud deployment capabilities using technologies

such as Terraform and Harness.

* Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, engineering

teams, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into secure,

scalable platform solutions.

* Establish technical standards and help ensure cloud solutions align with

architecture, security, compliance, and operational expectations.

* Evaluate technical options, communicate tradeoffs, and influence decisions

across the organization.

* Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers

without formal people-management responsibility.

WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE UNIQUE

This position combines hands-on engineering, solution design, and

enterprise-level technical influence. The Principal Engineer will help shape the

future of Walgreens’ cloud platform while serving as a trusted technical partner

to architecture, security, engineering, and business teams.

The strongest candidate will bring a solid cloud infrastructure foundation,

sound technical judgment, and the ability to communicate clearly, navigate

change, and lead through influence.

Location and work arrangement

Deerfield, Illinois — hybrid, with four days in the office and one day remote.

Sponsorship

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Job Responsibilities

* Plans designs develops and Cloud and Non Cloud systems or new products

including cloud based or internet related tools for highly strategic and

complex high risk undertakings. Plays a leading role in modern platform

design and development.

* Writes code that establishes coding specifications typically for cloud

services and systems that have no precedent. Leads in developing the

technical vision and design specifications for assigned projects and oversees

implementation.

* Develops or may lead in developing technical business approaches and new or

enhanced technical tools. Breaks barriers and challenges legacy thought where

applicable and adapts legacy design as needed.

* Plans designs develops and tests software systems or applications for

software enhancements and new products including cloud based or internet

related tools for highly strategic and complex high risk undertakings

* Owns the development and rollout for entire products or large projects as

assigned. Champions process (Scrum TDD etc). Writes tech specs and identifies

risks before starting major projects. Sets standards. Goes out of their way

to reduce complexity. As needed takes on additional tech lead

responsibilities for driving an initiative to completion.

* Use technical expertise in infrastructure design software design architecture

and software system interrelationships.

* Designs solutions that will provide a high level of resiliency LAN WAN

Information Systems

* Designs Multi Cloud solutions

* Plans designs configures and installs network hardware in support of customer

requirements.

* Interacts with internal and external peers and management to share highly

complex information solutions related to areas of expertise and or to gain

acceptance of new or enhanced technology business solutions.

* May lead teams projects

About Walgreens

Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring

for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers

and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S.

and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately

220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and

is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services,

building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers,

patients, team members and communities.

EXTERNAL BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor’s Degree and at least 6 years experience in Engineering, Software

Engineering or similar OR, High School Diploma/GED and at least 9 years

experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or similar.

* Experience writing code for highly complex and strategic applications of

major importance

* Experience in algorithms, systems, architecture and bits-and-bytes

* Experience with programming languages, such as C, C++; UNIX, XML, Python,

Perl and/or Java.

* Experience managing or implementing systems on OSI model in large and

distributed Environments

* At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the

workplace.

* At least 3 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or

cross-functional team leadership.

* Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes

(within state and out of state)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Information Technology

* Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology

* Experience working in an Agile environment.

* Cisco, CCNP, CCIE, or similar vendor cert along with Cloud Network engineer

certs

* DevOps

* 9+ years of experience in leading a group of automation/DevOps engineering

team.

* Hands-on experience is Deployment automation for various applications IaaS,

PaaS platforms on a large complex system.

* Hands-on experience in automation software like Chef, Puppet, Ansible,

Terraform or equivalent.

* Experience in implementation of CI/CD pipelines for Cloud deployments using

containers/Docker for a large ecosystem

* Experience in GIT Workflows, Pipelines, and code repository management for

agile development

* Experience in working on Kubernetes platform on a microservices architecture

and other DevOps tooling on high traffic applications.

* Strong understanding of infrastructure components (e.g. databases,

networking, DNS, cloud services, orchestration tools, containerization)

* Experience in operationalization high traffic Web applications through

monitoring and alerting for a polyglot application stack

* Infrastructure

* 8+ years of experience leading Infrastructure and Automation Teams and

hands-on expertise in migrating and optimizing on-premises infrastructure to

Cloud8+ years of experience with Azure based PaaS & SaaS services (ASE, Azure

Databricks, Azure Datalake, Azure AD, Azure ADDS, etc.)

* 8+ years of experience with Azure Infrastructure services (VM’s, VNETS,

Subnets, NSG’s, Resource Groups, etc ) deployment.

* 8+ years Of experience in scripting and automation with Azure CLI,

PowerShell, Bash, Ruby, Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, JSON templates, etc.

* 8+ years of experience working with Private endpoints, Expressroute, VNET

Gateway, ASR, DNS, load balancing, etc.

* Experience working with Linux, Windows, Azure Active Directory, Roles, and

Policies

* Experience troubleshooting network procedures and best practices; experience

with network challenges associated with systems integration, including COTS

integration, capacity analysis and system architecture design

* Experience in the use of network analysis toolsing list of duties

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction

records.

The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal

employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this

range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including

geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant

factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please

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