Principal Engineer

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Posted 16 Days Agojob requisition :
RAs a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
** Meijer Rewards
*** Weekly pay
* Scheduling flexibility
* Paid parental leave
* Paid education assistance
* Team member discount
* Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

Meijer Digital is the eCommerce arm of Meijer, focused on delivering exceptional grocery pickup and delivery experiences through our website and mobile app. As the Principal Engineer for Digital Dev Ops, you will play a strategic role in shaping the future of our Dev Ops capabilities. This position is about driving automation, scalability, and resiliency across a multi-cloud environment. You’ll partner with over 30 agile teams to enable faster, more reliable delivery of features and services that power our digital customer experience.

You will help drive the Dev Ops strategy and architecture across Digital and collaborate closely with principal engineers and architects across platforms. If you’re passionate about engineering excellence, automation, and building systems that scale—and you still love rolling up your sleeves and committing code—this is the role for you.
Position will follow our hybrid schedule:
Monday-Wednesday in office, Thursday-Friday remote. Fully remote requests will not be considered.
** What You'll Be Doing:
*** Lead the design and implementation of advanced automation that improves developer experience, accelerates delivery, and increases platform resiliency.
* Partner with platform and architecture teams on multi cloud strategies (Azure and GCP)—collaborating on design and supporting execution to enhance resiliency and availability.
* Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines leveraging Git Hub Actions and Azure Dev Ops, driving secure, scalable, and repeatable delivery patterns.
* Mature Git Ops practices using Argo CD (Canary, Blue/Green) and Kubernetes for deployment automation.
* Write code—not just YAML. Develop scripts and tooling (Power Shell, Python, Bash, etc.) to automate repetitive tasks and optimize workflows. If you’ve ever said, “I can script that,” you’ll feel right at home.
* Unlock developer self-service: create “golden path” templates and automation so teams can quickly bootstrap new repos, pipelines, and containers while adhering to standards.
* Serve as a Git guru - branching strategies, PR quality gates, and repo governance are your playground.
* Build production ready POCs that validate patterns and can be adopted broadly by delivery teams.
* Collaborate with engineering teams across Digital to ensure Dev Ops best practices are embedded in their delivery processes.
* Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the Dev Ops team, fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
* Support critical release activities, ensuring smooth, reliable deployments.
* Proactively identify issues and opportunities; find a path forward in ambiguous situations and implement solutions without needing explicit direction.
* Conduct industry research to evaluate emerging tools, technologies, and processes.
* Continuously evolve tooling, guardrails, and documentation to improve efficiency, security, and reliability across Digital.
* Advocate for non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability.
* Foster an organization wide network of Dev Ops practitioners—share knowledge, align standards, and learn from other lines of business across Meijer.
* Advocate for and lead the responsible use of AI tools such as Git Hub Copilot to boost developer productivity while maintaining high quality code and coding standards.
** What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
*** Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
* ** 7+ years…