Lead DevOps CI/CD Engineer

Kroger • Blue Ash, OH

4d

About The Position

The Lead DevOps CI/CD Engineer is responsible for architecting, operating, and continuously improving the CI/CD ecosystem that enables fast, secure, and reliable software delivery across the organization. This role drives pipeline scalability, automation maturity, platform modernization, and operational excellence. The engineer partners with development, QA, architecture, IT, and product teams to ensure the CI/CD platform accelerates engineering productivity while meeting enterprise security, compliance, and governance standards. Accountable for proactively leading or supporting software engineering activities that create deliverables that guide the direction, development, and delivery of software solutions that meet business needs. Provide leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required to deliver critical business solutions. Develop target-state guidance (i.e., reusable standards, design patterns, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations) to evolve the organization's development process. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and, safety.

Requirements

• Minimum - Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or in a STEM major
• 5+ years of successful and applicable experience taking a lead role in building complex software and automation systems that has been successfully delivered to customers
• 5+ years of a proven track record of designing and delivering large scale, high-quality systems
• 5+ years of successful and applicable hands-on experience in software or infrastructure development domain and principles, including design patterns and code structure
• Strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition
• Deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud, middleware, servers and storage, database management, and operations
• Understanding of network and security architecture
• Demonstrated written, oral and, presentation/public speaking communication skills
• Proven ability to think and contribute at the strategic level

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated capability to build, mentor and maintain an inclusive team-based environment
• Experience building solutions using elastic architectures (preferably Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform)
• 8+ years in DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure engineering, or SRE
• Expertise with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• Strong proficiency with IaC tools including Terraform, Ansible, ARM/Bicep
• Background in Linux/Windows systems, virtualization, or containerization
• Experience with enterprise observability platforms
• Experience working in large‑scale or regulated enterprise environments preferred
• Experience with GCP or GDCE is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for proactively leading or supporting software engineering activities that create deliverables that guide the direction, development, and delivery of software solutions that meet business needs.
• Provide leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required to deliver critical business solutions.
• Develop target-state guidance (i.e., reusable standards, design patterns, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations) to evolve the organization's development process.
• Develop a high-quality codebase, lead design discussions, execute development against design, and navigate complex codebase
• Lead the development implementation of technology strategy within a defined set of teams. Executes against defined technology roadmap to support project portfolio and business strategy
• Oversee the implementation of enterprise standards across domains: operations, infrastructure, data, applications, development, security & risk, and business continuance
• Provide technical leadership to ensure clarity between ongoing projects and the strategic objectives of the company
• Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and, transform the existing core technology base and IT estate
• Implement high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the budgeting or other capital planning processes
• Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership to shape sound architectural decisions
• Lead the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Mentor team members in software development principles, patterns, processes and, practices
• Promote the capture and reuse of intellectual capital, including code objects and components
• Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures and, other design documents
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees