Senior Network Administrator - Enterprise & Automation

Ahold Delhaize USA; Salisbury (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A seasoned IT professional at Ahold Delhaize USA will own key segments of the enterprise network, deploying upgrades, tuning performance, and mentoring team members. You will coordinate changes with vendors to ensure SLA, security, and architectural alignment.

Responsibilities include incident resolution, automation, collaboration on releases, and maintaining documentation to support operations. Strong storage, scripting, and monitoring skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years SAN/NAS administration in enterprise environments.
• Experience with at least one major storage vendor platform and backup solutions.
• Strong zoning/masking, multipathing, and performance analysis skills.
• Experience automating tasks with scripting.
• Proficiency with monitoring tools and ITSM processes.
• Ability to lead complex changes and mentor colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and upgrade enterprise network infrastructure (switches, routers, WLAN controllers/APs, SD WAN edges, load balancers).
• Tune network performance and availability using telemetry, synthetic tests, and capacity trends.
• Resolve complex incidents and eliminate recurring issues through problem management.
• Automate routine configuration and validation tasks; contribute modules/playbooks to shared libraries.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product on releases, maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Communicate planned and unplanned changes, providing status, impact, and remediation clearly.
• Validate compliance with operational metrics, SLAs, and architecture standards; report gaps and actions.
• Oversee day to day vendor/carrier tasks and verify service credits or escalations when needed.
• Maintain current diagrams, asset records, and knowledge articles to support consistent operations.
• Guide junior team members through complex changes and incident handling.
• May be called upon to support critical escalations and must be available during urgent IT incidents as needed.

Skills

SAN/NAS administration

Scripting for automation

Monitoring tools

Leadership / mentoring

Communication skills

ITSM processes

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Engineering

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Backup solutions

Job description

A seasoned IT professional at Ahold Delhaize USA will own key segments of the enterprise network, deploying upgrades, tuning performance, and mentoring team members. You will coordinate changes with vendors to ensure SLA, security, and architectural alignment.

Responsibilities include incident resolution, automation, collaboration on releases, and maintaining documentation to support operations. Strong storage, scripting, and monitoring skills are essential.