Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer II (Azure)
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Job ID 1597132BRReady to impact the next generation of healthcare technology, products and services? When you join us, your work will set the standards for database platform deployment and shape our solutions for the future. It’s an opportunity to reimagine the way we support our nearly 8,500 pharmacy-led, health and well-being retail stores worldwide and our entire organization.
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Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer II (Azure)
Job ID 1597132BR
Job Summary
We’re seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer to drive automation-at-scale and lead Kubernetes enablement across Walgreens’ cloud ecosystem. This role will design and deliver automation capabilities while acting as a Kubernetes SME, helping teams operationalize workloads efficiently. You will play a key role in advancing platform engineering principles through Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and reusable automation frameworks—enabling self-service, standardization, and reduced toil for product teams. You’ll work closely with engineering, security, and cloud operations teams to design resilient, codified, and policy-driven platforms that scale across diverse environments.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Salary Range: $127500 - $204000 / Salaried
We’re seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer to drive automation-at-scale and lead Kubernetes enablement across Walgreens’ cloud ecosystem. This role will design and deliver automation capabilities while acting as a Kubernetes SME, helping teams operationalize workloads efficiently. You will play a key role in advancing platform engineering principles through Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and reusable automation frameworks—enabling self-service, standardization, and reduced toil for product teams. You’ll work closely with engineering, security, and cloud operations teams to design resilient, codified, and policy-driven platforms that scale across diverse environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep) to automate provisioning and configuration of Azure resources
- Design and maintain self-service automation frameworks that empower teams to deploy applications and infrastructure consistently across environments
- Act as Kubernetes SME, supporting scalable, secure, and automated AKS clusters with GitOps-driven workflows (ArgoCD or Flux)
- Optimize AKS workload deployment with Helm, pod scheduling strategies, resource quotas, and multi-tenant security boundaries
- Integrate and enforce Policy as Code using OPA/Gatekeeper and Azure Policy to maintain governance and compliance posture
- Collaborate across teams to codify CI/CD pipelines and reduce drift through declarative deployments and automation-first approaches
- Lead initiatives to implement Observability as Code using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana; standardize telemetry collection across platforms
- Drive adoption of Configuration as Code (Ansible/Chef/Puppet) to manage baseline consistency and state enforcement
- Proactively identify platform performance, reliability, or security issues and resolve them through repeatable automation
- Coach and mentor engineers, championing platform best practices and a “you build it, you run it” culture
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.
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 writing code for moderate to complex online applications, microservices or mobile applications or deployment automation
- Experience with programming languages for online applications, microservices or mobile applications or deployment automation
- Experience designing/building moderately complex applications
- Experience writing automated test scripts
- Experience creating coding/scripting solutions to fix complex problems/issues
- Experience engaging and the executive level
- At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
- At least 2 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
- Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Automation roles, with strong Azure expertise
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AKS, including Helm, GitOps, autoscaling, and workload hardening
- Proven success designing and operationalizing automation-as-a-service models
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep
- Fluency in automation scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
- Expertise in CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and secure delivery pipelines
- Demonstrated knowledge of Policy as Code, RBAC enforcement, and secure workload isolation
- Familiarity with Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) and Logging as Code
- Strong background in Configuration as Code and secure baseline enforcement (e.g., Ansible, Chef)
- Passion for simplifying complexity, reducing toil, and delivering scalable platforms through code
Salary Range: $127500 - $204000 / Salaried
Benefits
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Health, dental and vision*
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Retirement Savings Plan (401(k))
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Paid time off benefits
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Onsite fitness center and health center
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Work & life resources
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Employee discount
*with a 30-hour work week
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