Apply for the Principal Cloud Engineer – Cloud Engineering job opening.Principal Cloud Engineer – Cloud Engineering

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 35230BR
Department: Publix Technology
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Nov 18, 2025

$143 - 215k

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.

Join Publix Technology – Where Innovation Meets Impact

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., is powered by a dynamic technology team of 2,100+ associates. We deliver modern, cutting-edge solutions to 1,400+ stores and over 200,000 internal team members across 8 states.

Whether you’re passionate about IT security, platform engineering, architecture, software development, or infrastructure, we offer exciting career paths at every level – from internships to technical leadership.

Be part of a Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work For” and help us build more than just great subs – build the future of technology for Publix.

Join the Cloud Engineering & Automation team! As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for playing a key role developing cloud solutions with cross-functional enterprise teams and business partners to architect, analyze and develop systems to meet the needs of our technology partners & customers.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform systems analysis to understand existing systems and provide recommendations and documentation on enhancements, migrations, or new sub-systems development
• Lead requirements gathering, design and delivery of solutions to support business areas
• Design, author, and review architecture and dataflow diagrams
• Draft and review internal architecture and design documents
• Support existing Publix systems software by implementing enhancement, support, and maintenance code
• Follow application lifecycle management process used (agile/scrum/waterfall) depending on team and system
• Work on infrastructure monitoring systems that cover deployed systems on-prem, in the cloud and/or on AKS
• Secure Publix systems software and cloud infrastructure by implementing security best practices and adhere to the enterprise security standards
• Design and develop Azure solutions utilizing Compute (Azure Kubernetes Service, App Service, Function Apps), Networking (API Management, Application Gateways, VNET, SUBNET, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall etc.), Data (Storage, Data Lake, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Databricks etc.), Security (Securing Azure Services, Managed Identity, Service Principal etc.).
• Design & develop cloud native distributed and event driven architectures using highly available services.
• Design & develop solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD practices.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field or experience
• 9+ years of experience in Analysis, Design and Coding in a lifecycle environment
• 9+ years of experience with Object Oriented Development/Programming (OOD/OOP)
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and implementing stable, high-quality, high-performance applications using distributed or cloud technologies
• 7+ years of experience with ASP.NET Web API & C# or similar technologies
• 7+ years of experience with Azure SQL or similar technologies
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure automation for continuous integration and continuous deployment of technical solutions leveraging Azure Services and Features
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform
• Able to generate hybrid system diagrams given system requirements
• Able to debug and resolve complex issues in cloud environments for business-critical applications

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Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Analysis, Design and Coding in a lifecycle environment
• 3+ years of experience using Docker and containerization
• 2+ years of experience with technical writing (requirements documents, diagraming, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience with Python
• 1+ years of experience with Monitoring, Dashboarding and Alerting systems like Dynatrace, Azure Monitoring and Splunk
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

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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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