Principal Automation Engineer 2

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 30206BR
Department: Publix Technology
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Aug 29, 2024

$140 - 211k

Hybrid

Full Time - Regular

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Description

Please note, this is a hybrid position requiring 8 days per month on-site in Lakeland, FL.

Welcome to Publix Technology, the award-winning technical group for Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the nation. Our technology teams of 2100+ associates provide cutting-edge, modern solutions to nearly 1400 retail stores and 200,000+ internal team members across 8 states. We offer positions at all levels – summer internships, individual contributor roles, to technical leadership across a broad range of technical disciplines. So, whether you’re interested in IT security, platform engineering, architecture, software development, or infrastructure – we have a career path for you! See for yourself why Publix Super Markets, Inc. is a constant on Fortune Magazine’s Best Companies to Work list.

Join the Infrastructure Automation team! As a Principal Automation Engineer 2, you will be responsible for playing a key role interacting with cross-functional enterprise teams and business partners to analyze requirements and drive product features to meet the needs of our Automation customers.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating automation for customers to reduce toil and improve speed of service leveraging Ansible, Terraform and Python.
• Troubleshoot and support existing automation workflows.
• Design new automation workflows for end customer
• Educate and evangelize automation for customers.
• Creative and forward-thinking design approaches for automation

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or analytical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience automating system admin tasks with configuration management tools (Ansible, Packer, Vagrant)
• 8+ years of experience writing Python scripts and modules to support Ansible and Terraform
• 8+ years of experience with VMWare infrastructure management
• 4+ years of experience with Github, Gitlab or Azure DevOps experience
• 4+ years of experience with Azure and/or GCP

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Benefits

• 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)

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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.

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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.***

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