Cloud Architect - Platform Architecture

Overview

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.

Location:

Hybrid (Lakeland, FL)

Work Model:
Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely.

• 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.
• Empowered Culture:
  We value autonomy, creativity, and continuous learning—your ideas shape the future of technology in our organization.

• Provide expert leadership in cloud architecture and implementation (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, scalability).
• Oversee cloud strategy development, architecture governance, and foundational standards.
• Define and enforce cloud operating environment, standards, and supporting tools/frameworks.
• Shape Publix’s cloud roadmap for cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid solutions.
• Establish and uphold best practices for availability, resiliency, performance, disaster recovery, and data integration.
• Recommend cost optimizations and ensure efficient cloud resource utilization.
• Analyze cloud configurations and partner cross-functionally to implement long-term fixes.
• Serve as SME for end-to-end cloud architecture, including networking and provisioning.
• Create and maintain documented cloud design patterns for application deployments.
• Mentor team members on cloud standards and drive cultural adoption of cloud practices.
• Lead development of cloud reference architecture and management systems.
• Escalate and resolve delivery risks, issues, and roadblocks.
• Validate cloud resource performance post-deployment through monitoring and metrics.
• Troubleshoot across IaaS, PaaS, applications, network, and security layers.
• Identify recurring issues and build tools/processes to prevent them.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Development, Engineering, and Security teams for robust solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of architecture experience
• 8+ years of experience supporting multi-tier web applications
• 5+ years of experience handling workloads in large-scale environments
• 5+ years of experience in design and implementation of cloud workloads in Azure

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Experience with analyzing and defining technical requirements & design specifications
• Experience with cloud native database design with both relational and document-based database systems
• Experience with integrating complex multi-tier applications
• Experience with API design and development
• Experience with application lifecycle tools (Git, Git Hub, Azure Dev Ops, Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with cloud networking and network security, including virtual networks, network security groups, cloud-native firewalls, etc.
• Able to demonstrate writing shell scripts (Cloud Shell, Bash, Power Shell, or Python)
• Have a sound understanding of standard networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and advanced load balancing
• Have practical knowledge of application security
• Have recent experience supporting hybrid cloud and multi-cloud configuration
• Have previous experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Recent experience working with database technologies hosted in the cloud such as SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• Have recent experience with Azure Cosmos DB, Mongo
  
  DB, or Cassandra
• Have passed one or more Azure certification exams
• Have recent experience with Azure Dev Ops or other CI/CD tools and…