Senior Software Engineer I (Cloud/DevOps Platform Engineer)

Walgreens; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 102,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in healthcare and retail is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I specializing in Cloud and DevOps. The role involves driving automation and cloud-native solutions within Azure, enhancing platform reliability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates will have strong programming skills and experience in DevOps practices. This position offers competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Engineering or Software Engineering.
• Experience with programming languages for online applications.
• Experience in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive DevOps automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within Azure.
• Lead automation initiatives and enforce GitOps practices.
• Collaborate with teams to streamline cloud-native architectures.

Skills

Python

Bash

PowerShell

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

High School Diploma/GED

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

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Base pay range

$102,800.00/yr - $164,400.00/yr

Job Summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for driving DevOps automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native solutions within Azure. This role will focus on codifying infrastructure, CI/CD, security, and governance to create scalable, resilient, and efficient cloud environments. The engineer will lead automation initiatives, enforce GitOps practices, and enhance platform reliability through code-driven solutions. They will collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to streamline cloud-native architectures, improve deployment automation, and establish best practices for DevOps automation. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in cloud automation, strong programming and scripting skills, and a passion for optimizing cloud operations through automation.

Job Responsibilities

• The Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for driving DevOps automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native solutions within Azure
• This role will focus on codifying infrastructure, CI/CD, security, and governance to create scalable, resilient, and efficient cloud environments
• The engineer will lead automation initiatives, enforce GitOps practices, and enhance platform reliability through code-driven solutions
• They will collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to streamline cloud-native architectures, improve deployment automation, and establish best practices for DevOps automation
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep) to automate provisioning and configuration of Azure cloud resources
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, enabling fully automated deployments and continuous integration
• Implement GitOps practices to enforce consistency and version control for infrastructure and applications
• Automate security and compliance enforcement using Policy as Code (OPA, Sentinel, Azure Policy)
• Integrate Identity as Code and automated security controls to streamline cloud governance and access management
• Serve as a Kubernetes SME, optimizing AKS workloads, and automating cluster management for scalability, security, and resilience
• Implement Logging as Code and Monitoring as Code solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or similar tools
• Troubleshoot and optimize system performance, reliability, and security through automation-driven strategies
• Understanding of cloud security best practices and principles
• Skills in languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and system administration
• Mentor junior engineers and advocate for DevOps best practices across teams
  
  

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.

Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.

The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.

• Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or similar field OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 7 years of experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or related field
• Experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or similar field
• Experience writing code for moderately complex applications
• Experience with programming languages for online applications, microservices or mobile applications
• Experience designing/building moderately complex applications/automation
• Experience writing automation test or deployment scripts
• Experience creating coding/scripting solutions to fix moderately complex problems
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
• At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Specific “Preferred Qualifications” by specialty
• DevOps
• 5+ years of hands-on experience is Deployment automation for various applications IaaS, PaaS platforms on a Linux environment
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in automation software like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or equivalent
• Excellent knowledge in implementation of CI/CD pipelines for Cloud deployments using containers/Docker
• Strong demonstrable experience in GIT Workflows, Pipelines, and code repository management
• Experience in working on Kubernetes platform on a microservices architecture and other DevOps tooling
• Good understanding of infrastructure components (e.g. databases, networking, cloud services, orchestration tools, containerization)
• Experience in operationalization Web and Mobile applications through monitoring and alerting for a polyglot application stack
• Web/backend Developer
• Previous experience with full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to back-end systems
• Expert level knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations
• A mindset to take up most challenging coding tasks
• Proficiency in design, development, security & scalability of high-volume services implemented in Java, Node/Typescript, .NET, or Python etc.
• Strong demonstrated experience of Enterprise Integration Design patterns in development of loosely coupled & resilient systems
• Hands on with modern UI frameworks like React with excellent knowledge of client-side security & front-end design pattern (stateless components, conditional rendering, controlled components, hooks etc.)
• Demonstrable experience of design, development, query & database optimization of distributed SQL (e.g., Oracle, MySQL) & NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases
• Strong knowledge of implementation, security, capacity planning & performance tuning of solutions deployed to Cloud technologies – Azure (ACS, AKS), Google, IBM, AWS or Cloud Foundry
• Mobile Developer
• 4+ Years of Mobile App development experience and excellent hands-on skill in Kotlin( Android)
• Experience in building testing automation tools using cloud platforms like AppCenter
• Experience in ReactNative Programming.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations
• Experience integrating third party SDKs like Facebook, Adobe etc.
• Experience with integrating with Back-end Services ( APIs, GraphQL etc.)
• Data & Analytics
• 4+ years of experience in integrating, transforming and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems for building analytics solutions in any cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP
• 4 years of Experience in SQL, Java or Python programming
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as Cosmos, Cassandra
• Working experience with dimensional data modeling and strong knowledge of best practices and solution patterns
• Knowledge in Azure cloud technologies like Data Flow, Data Bricks, Azure Synapse, Azure Analysis Services and Power BI Analytics
• Experience in Data Pipeline and integration workflow management tools: Talend, Store Proc, Change Data Capture (CDC), Spark & Azure APIs
• Experience in any of reporting tools like Power BI, Business objects, Cognos or Tableau
• Experience in data classification, naming, data design, and the creation of DDL
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending fixes to resolve problems
  
  

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

$102800 - $164400 / Salaried

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or similar field OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 7 years of experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or related field
• Experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or similar field
• Experience writing code for moderately complex applications
• Experience with programming languages for online applications, microservices or mobile applications
• Experience designing/building moderately complex applications/automation
• Experience writing automation test or deployment scripts
• Experience creating coding/scripting solutions to fix moderately complex problems
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
• At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Specific “Preferred Qualifications” by specialty
• DevOps
• 5+ years of hands-on experience is Deployment automation for various applications IaaS, PaaS platforms on a Linux environment
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in automation software like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or equivalent
• Excellent knowledge in implementation of CI/CD pipelines for Cloud deployments using containers/Docker
• Strong demonstrable experience in GIT Workflows, Pipelines, and code repository management
• Experience in working on Kubernetes platform on a microservices architecture and other DevOps tooling
• Good understanding of infrastructure components (e.g. databases, networking, cloud services, orchestration tools, containerization)
• Experience in operationalization Web and Mobile applications through monitoring and alerting for a polyglot application stack
• Web/backend Developer
• Previous experience with full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to back-end systems
• Expert level knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations
• A mindset to take up most challenging coding tasks
• Proficiency in design, development, security & scalability of high-volume services implemented in Java, Node/Typescript, .NET, or Python etc.
• Strong demonstrated experience of Enterprise Integration Design patterns in development of loosely coupled & resilient systems
• Hands on with modern UI frameworks like React with excellent knowledge of client-side security & front-end design pattern (stateless components, conditional rendering, controlled components, hooks etc.)
• Demonstrable experience of design, development, query & database optimization of distributed SQL (e.g., Oracle, MySQL) & NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases
• Strong knowledge of implementation, security, capacity planning & performance tuning of solutions deployed to Cloud technologies – Azure (ACS, AKS), Google, IBM, AWS or Cloud Foundry
• Mobile Developer
• 4+ Years of Mobile App development experience and excellent hands-on skill in Kotlin( Android)
• Experience in building testing automation tools using cloud platforms like AppCenter
• Experience in ReactNative Programming.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing & operations
• Experience integrating third party SDKs like Facebook, Adobe etc.
• Experience with integrating with Back-end Services ( APIs, GraphQL etc.)
• Data & Analytics
• 4+ years of experience in integrating, transforming and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems for building analytics solutions in any cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS or GCP
• 4 years of Experience in SQL, Java or Python programming
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as Cosmos, Cassandra
• Working experience with dimensional data modeling and strong knowledge of best practices and solution patterns
• Knowledge in Azure cloud technologies like Data Flow, Data Bricks, Azure Synapse, Azure Analysis Services and Power BI Analytics
• Experience in Data Pipeline and integration workflow management tools: Talend, Store Proc, Change Data Capture (CDC), Spark & Azure APIs
• Experience in any of reporting tools like Power BI, Business objects, Cognos or Tableau
• Experience in data classification, naming, data design, and the creation of DDL
• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending fixes to resolve problems
  
  

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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