Cloud Architect - Platform Architecture (Remote)

Description

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., is driven by a dynamic technology team of 2,300+ professionals delivering innovative solutions to 1,400+ stores and 200,000+ associates across 8 states. 
  
From IT security and platform engineering to architecture, software development, and infrastructure, we offer career opportunities at every level—internships through technical leadership. 

Join a company consistently ranked among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and help us build more than great subs—build the future of technology at Publix. 
  
You will be joining the Publix Platform Architecture team. As a Cloud Architect, you should have a deep understanding of relevant cloud technologies and their relationships, as well as the cost implications of cloud resources. You will design large-scale, multi-region, and multi-cloud architectures and integrate cloud services to create highly available and resilient cloud solutions. Your role includes addressing information governance and security challenges associated with public clouds. Additionally, you should be able to thoroughly document your work and changes to the cloud environment effectively.

Location: Virtual/remote employment for this position in the following states only: FL, GA, AL, TN, SC, NC, VA, KY.
  
Why Join Us? 

• Operational Efficiency:  Ensure technology solutions support efficient workflows and enable automation to improve operational effectiveness. 
• Empowered Culture: We value autonomy, creativity, and continuous learning—your ideas shape the future of technology in our organization. 

 Your Impact  

•  Demonstrate deep subject matter leadership of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Manage the development and implementation of cloud strategy, develop the architecture governance framework, and define architecture foundations.
• Define, implement, and enforce the cloud operating environment, cloud standards, and associated tools/platforms/frameworks.
• Contribute to the Publix cloud road map and delivery strategy for cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid implementations.
• Define and enforce Cloud architecture best practices: high availability, resiliency, redundancy, performance optimization, disaster recovery, observability, and data integration patterns.
• Recommend cost optimizations and ensure cloud resources are operating as efficiently as possible.
• Deep dive into cloud resource configurations and issues, along with partnering with cross functional team members to produce and roll out fixes for long-term solutions.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the organization for end-to-end cloud architecture best practices including networking, provisioning, and management.
• Develop and publish a library of deployable and documented cloud architecture design patterns based on the organization's application portfolio as a basis for deploying services to the cloud.
• Act as the coach and mentor to team members, including mentoring on cloud standards, frameworks, etc., as well as will be a vital enabler of the organization's cultural change for cloud adoption.
• Lead the definition and development of cloud reference architecture and management systems.
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery roadblocks, risks, issues, and challenges.
• Validate the effectiveness and optimization of cloud resources once they go-live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: IaaS, PaaS, services, applications, network, and security.
• Identify recurring problems/bottlenecks and build the tools and processes to prevent problems from recurring.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Development, Engineering, and Security teams to ensure well-architected cloud solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of architecture experience
• 8+ years of experience supporting multi-tier web applications.
• 5+ years of experience handling workloads in large-scale environments.
• 5+ years of experience in design and implementation of cloud workloads in Azure

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Experience with analyzing and defining technical requirements & design specifications.
• Experience with cloud native database design with both relational and document-based database systems
• Experience with integrating complex multi-tier applications.
• Experience with API design and development.
• Experience with application lifecycle tools (Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, etc.).
• Experience with cloud networking and network security, including virtual networks, network security groups, cloud-native firewalls, etc.
• Able to demonstrate writing shell scripts (Cloud Shell, Bash, PowerShell, or Python).
• Have a sound understanding of standard networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and advanced load balancing.
• Have practical knowledge of application security.
• Have recent experience supporting hybrid cloud and multi-cloud configuration.
• Have previous experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Recent experience working with database technologies hosted in the cloud such as SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
• Have recent experience with Azure Cosmos DB, MongoDB, or Cassandra
• Have passed one or more Azure certification exams.
• Have recent experience with Azure DevOps or other continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) tools and pipelines.
• Have recent experience with big data clustering technologies (Spark, HDInsight, Databricks, etc.).
• Have experience in design and implementation of cloud workloads in GCP.
• Have the ability to demonstrate recent experience developing software that is deployed to the cloud.

Year End Bonus

As a year-end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.

Benefits Information

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Group health, dental and vision plans
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
• Visit our website to see all of our benefits: Benefits - Jobs (publix.com)

Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration.  Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours.
 
Please do not use your Publix email address when applying.  Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.
 
***Relocation/Household Good Shipment Allowance will NOT be provided.***