Principal Engineer – Azure Cloud Platform

The Principal Engineer – Azure Cloud Platform is a hands-on individual contributor and technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and enhancing Walgreens’ enterprise cloud platform across Microsoft Azure and the company’s private cloud environment.

This role creates scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions that enable application and business teams to deploy services effectively across cloud environments.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the technical direction and solution design for highly complex cloud initiatives spanning multiple systems, processes, and teams.
• Design reusable infrastructure solutions for application and business teams deploying into Microsoft Azure and Walgreens’ private cloud environment.
• Work hands-on with Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), infrastructure-as-code, cloud networking, deployment automation, and containerized environments.
• Help develop and enhance cloud deployment capabilities using technologies such as Terraform and Harness.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into secure, scalable platform solutions.
• Establish technical standards and help ensure cloud solutions align with architecture, security, compliance, and operational expectations.
• Evaluate technical options, communicate tradeoffs, and influence decisions across the organization.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers without formal people-management responsibility.

What Makes This Role Unique

This position combines hands-on engineering, solution design, and enterprise-level technical influence. The Principal Engineer will help shape the future of Walgreens’ cloud platform while serving as a trusted technical partner to architecture, security, engineering, and business teams.

The strongest candidate will bring a solid cloud infrastructure foundation, sound technical judgment, and the ability to communicate clearly, navigate change, and lead through influence.

Location and work arrangement
Deerfield, Illinois — hybrid, with four days in the office and one day remote.

Sponsorship
Work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

• Plans designs develops and Cloud and Non Cloud systems or new products including cloud based or internet related tools for highly strategic and complex high risk undertakings. Plays a leading role in modern platform design and development.
• Writes code that establishes coding specifications typically for cloud services and systems that have no precedent. Leads in developing the technical vision and design specifications for assigned projects and oversees implementation.
• Develops or may lead in developing technical   business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools. Breaks barriers and challenges legacy thought where applicable and adapts legacy design as needed.
• Plans designs develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud based or internet related tools for highly strategic and complex high risk undertakings
• Owns the development and rollout for entire products or large projects as assigned. Champions process (Scrum TDD etc). Writes tech specs and identifies risks before starting major projects. Sets standards. Goes out of their way to reduce complexity. As needed takes on additional tech lead responsibilities for driving an initiative to completion.
• Use technical expertise in infrastructure design software design architecture and software system interrelationships.
• Designs solutions that will provide a high level of resiliency LAN WAN Information Systems
• Designs Multi Cloud solutions
• Plans designs configures and installs network hardware in support of customer requirements.
• Interacts with internal and external peers and management to share highly complex information solutions related to areas of expertise and or to gain acceptance of new or enhanced technology business solutions.
• May lead teams projects