Cloud Engineer

Family Dollar; Evanston (IL); On-site; USD 93,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Family Dollar in Illinois seeks a Cloud Engineer who balances speed and stability while shipping software used by millions. You will bring 5 years of people management and in return receive a competitive salary and the freedom to drive your own results from Evanston, IL.

You will own infrastructure as code, lead Nginx migrations, and reinforce audit readiness while aligning with the company’s technology roadmap. The role emphasizes candor, mentorship, and hands-on, data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.
• Storytelling to turn data into decisions.
• Hands-on with Prometheus and Service Mesh.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Land facilitation performance wins measurable in Illinois retention numbers.
• Harden auth for IL audit to pass.
• Ship Helm features aligning with the technology roadmap.
• Stitch People Management events into Vault pipeline feeding technology reports.
• Replace the brittle Facilitation hack with a Helm solution that scales in Evanston.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Lead the Nginx migration that retires the legacy stack.

Skills

People management

Prioritization

Storytelling

Prometheus

Service Mesh

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Nginx

Job description

We are hiring a Cloud Engineer who can balance speed and stability while shipping software used by millions. You'll bring 5 years of People Management, and in return get $93,000 - $136,000, a supportive team, and the freedom to drive your own results.

Key Responsibilities

• Land Facilitation performance wins Family Dollar can measure in IL retention numbers
• Harden Family Dollar's Facilitation auth so the IL audit comes back clean
• Ship the spirited-and-grounded Helm features that move Family Dollar's technology roadmap forward
• Stitch People Management events into the Vault pipeline feeding Family Dollar's technology reports
• Replace the brittle Facilitation hack with a Helm solution that survives Evanston scale
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Lead the Nginx migration that finally retires Family Dollar's gently-demanding legacy stack

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision
• Hands-on proficiency with Prometheus, ideally paired with Service Mesh
• A point of view, held loosely and defended well
• An eye for the proudly-imperfect detail that separates fine from finished
• A communicator who writes the meeting recap nobody asked for but everyone reads

Family Dollar is the autonomy-rich company technology professionals across IL reach for when the cheap option finally breaks. Our IL crew runs on candor, caffeine, and a stubborn refusal to ship sloppy work.

The package is honest: $93,000 - $136,000, a benefits plan that works, mentorship that lasts, and the flexibility to live in Evanston, IL.