Apply for the Senior Engineer 2 – Infrastructure Platform Engineering job opening.Senior Engineer 2 – Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 38062BR
Department: Publix Technology
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Pay Range: $8,835 - $13,255
Date Posted: Jul 13, 2026

$114 - 172k

Hybrid

Full Time - Regular

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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.

The Infrastructure Platform Engineering Team is responsible for defining, developing, implementing, maintaining, and advising on the effective use of the Publix VMware based technology solutions to maximize their value. This position will play a key active role towards those efforts with a focus on implementation, security, administration, iterative automation, and ongoing platform optimizations.

Location: Hybrid (Lakeland, FL)
Work Model: Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely.

Why Join Us?

• Hybrid Flexibility: Work remotely when you need focus time and join us onsite for high-impact collaboration and brainstorming sessions.
• Operational Efficiency: Ensure technology solutions support efficient workflows and enable automation to improve operational effectiveness.
• Cutting-Edge AI Projects: Drive innovation in AI platforms, integrating advanced tools and frameworks to solve complex business challenges.
• Empowered Culture: We value autonomy, creativity, and continuous learning—your ideas shape the future of technology in our organization.

Your Impact

• Software and hardware installation, configuration, integration, and support
• Project design and architecture
• Systems, platform, and network management activities
• Problem determination, resolution, and prevention
• Systems security, vulnerability remediations, and regular audit tasks
• Facilitate project team participation, provide technical excellence, and foster a culture of shared growth through collaboration & shared responsibility
• Maintain new technology awareness through self-driven research & practical proof of concept efforts with an end goal towards systems integration of current and future Publix technology state
• Maintain vendor relationships while extracting maximum value for Publix with effective time utilization.
• Create, review, collaborate, and update documentation for internal and peer customers
• Programmatically gather, analyze, and correlate data points across the VMware product stack in diverse and siloed environments
• Maintain consistent and iterative data collection while preserving data integrity and adhering to company security and audit standards for access and storage
• Collaborate with engineering peers and management to iteratively develop and maintain simplified internally accessible dashboards that facilitate data-driven decision-making
• Champion, develop and iterate automation processes, self-service portals, and monitoring tools to ensure consistency, maintain deployment velocity, and increase efficiency.
• Drive and operationalize responsible corporate use of AI to enhance collaboration, code development, process efficiency, and documentation while upholding security and data governance standards.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or analytical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years implementing, supporting, upgrading, securing, and migrating to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 5.2 or higher), including core components (SDDC, vCenter, ESXi, vSAN, and NSX) and adjacent VMware appliances such as Aria, vROPS, vRLI, LCM, vIDM, SRM, and vRNI.
• 4+ years implementing, supporting, upgrading, securing, and operationalizing infrastructure platform management tools such as SDDC Manager, HPE OneView, and Dell OpenManage.
• 4+ years of experience implementing, supporting, and migrating Windows Server & Red Hat operating systems in a highly segmented and secure virtual infrastructure
• 4+ years of experience with various hardware vendors product stack
• 4+ years of experience leading medium to large projects from requirements through implementation
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering for public cloud or on-premises Infrastructure as Code Automation using scripts and tools such as PowerShell, Terraform and Ansible
• 2+ years of experience in developing PowerBI, Data Bricks operational dashboards, or equivalent reporting within VMware Aria Operations, SharePoint, Data Lakes, or similar internally accessible data warehouses

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing, capacity planning, supporting, and migrating guest virtual machines of various operating systems in a highly segmented and secure virtual infrastructure
• Experience with platform-related dependencies to include server, containers, NAS/SAN, hyperconverged solutions, core network design concepts, and hybrid cloud solutions
• Experience in developing, maintaining, and executing operational automation technologies, such as Azure DevOps, VRA, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Orchestrator or SCCM OS Deployments
• Good understanding of various System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies including traditional waterfall as well as agile methodologies (i.e., SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)
• Experience working with vulnerability management tools, compliance audits, and remediation implementation & tracking activities
• Experience working in a process structured environment which includes Change Management and Disaster Recovery (DR) Preparedness
• Solid understanding of the functional and operational practices necessary to operate in a highly available, highly secure, and highly regulated environment to meet business, security, and compliance requirements
• Experience in converting raw platform data points into insights for identifying & communicating potential issues, cost-effective solutions, or proactive platform actions to meet predicted just-in-time business needs during normal operations and DR situations
• Experience with responsible use of enterprise AI tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and agentic patterns to improve individual and team efficiency, accuracy, and consistency across automation, orchestration, and daily engineering tasks through custom agents and shared prompt repositories

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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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