Sr Infrastructure Engineer - Kansas City

Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Azure Cloud · Location: 5000 Kansas Ave, AWG Support Center · Department: Information Technology · Make us your BEST Choice   · We are seeking an Infrastructure Engineer experienced in the design, implementation, and management of on premises and ...

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Azure Cloud

Location: 5000 Kansas Ave, AWG Support Center

Department: Information Technology

Make us your BEST Choice  

We are seeking an Infrastructure Engineer experienced in the design, implementation, and management of on premises and cloud-based infrastructure to support AWG's ongoing application modernization efforts. This is a hands-on individual contributor role responsible for implementing and maintaining Azure resources using Terraform and contributing to Azure DevOps (ADO) pipeline work as part of a cross functional engineering team. The role focuses on delivering secure, repeatable, and compliant Azure infrastructure across production, development, test, and disaster recovery environments. The ideal candidate is independent, resourceful, and able to perform complex tasks with minimal oversight while working closely with infrastructure, security, networking, SRE, and application peers.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Solutions (30%)

• Work independently to develop solutions based on requirements using AWG standards while collaborating with other team members on shared solutions.
• Act as the technical Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure contributor on projects, helping define technical approach, planning, and implementation.
• Deliver technical solutions with high quality, on time, and on budget.
• Create and manage standards and procedures related to system deployments, upgrades, lifecycle management, and general environment maintenance.
• Responsible for lifecycle ownership of solutions, including selection, implementation, software currency, upgrades, and technology retirement.
• Design, test, and implement new project features, enhancements, and infrastructure improvements.
• Create and maintain appropriate technical documentation of project deliverables, standards, and operational runbooks.
• Develop, test, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and IaC patterns for VMSS, storage accounts, vNets/subnets, private endpoints, firewalls, and other Azure services and resources.
• Contribute to Azure DevOps pipeline development and maintenance, including YAML pipelines, task definitions, deployment templates, and IaC promotion workflows.
• Implement and enforce IaC best practices, including module versioning, remote state management and locking, and changing review gates.
• Support self-hosted Azure DevOps agents and agent pools, including image creation, capacity planning, and performance tuning. 

Support Availability and Services (40%)

• Responsible for 24x7 production support for critical solutions, including participation in an on-call rotation and off-hours work as required.
• Troubleshoot Azure, pipeline, Terraform, server, network, and application issues using logical problem-solving techniques.
• Act as the Tier 3 escalation point for infrastructure incidents and support tasks.
• Respond to and remediate incidents reported by monitoring and alerting systems.
• Validate post deployment state, support rollbacks, and participate in remediation for infrastructure incidents.
• Analyze capacity, performance, and constraints using appropriate monitoring and diagnostic tools.
• Install, configure, and support infrastructure operating systems and underlying services required by application owners.
• Coordinate with third party vendors during incidents and outages, holding them accountable for service quality and delivery.

Develop IT Strategy (15%)

• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand business needs, technical constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Work functionally with security, networking, SRE, and application teams to ensure solutions meet compliance, connectivity, performance, and operational requirements.
• Contribute to the development of reusable assets, patterns, and standards that enable the broader AWG engineering community.
• Development and Continuous Improvement Culture (15%)
• Work closely with team members to develop, troubleshoot, and deliver solutions.
• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset; actively give and receive constructive feedback.
• Provide clear communication on technical approach, status, issues, and risks to manage stakeholder expectations.
• Mentor and help grow the skillsets of less experienced engineers when appropriate.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with demonstrated Azure expertise.
• Deep, practical Terraform experience, including modules, state backends, workspaces, and lifecycle management.
• Experience contributing to Azure DevOps pipelines, YAML, pipeline tasks, and agent pool usage.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, RBAC, private endpoints, and firewall/service integration.
• Proven troubleshooting skills for pipeline runs, Terraform plan/apply failures, and provider or state issues using logs and telemetry.
• Experience with secure secret handling in CI/CD and creation of operational runbooks.
• Excellent written documentation skills and ability to work effectively as an individual contributor within a team.

Additional Preferred Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of modern security best practices and frameworks (OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, etc.).
• Enterprise systems and hybrid infrastructure experience.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD technologies beyond ADO (e.g., Jenkins, Ansible, other IaC frameworks).
• Knowledge of virtual networking, hybrid connectivity, identity and access management, and network security concepts.
• Highly motivated, initiative taking, and resourceful, with the ability to learn and adopt modern technologies quickly.

Why Join Us

• Deep, hands-on work with Terraform and Azure in a modern hybrid enterprise environment.
• Collaborative engineering culture with shared ownership of ADO pipelines and infrastructure standards.
• Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide module design, deployment patterns, and operational practices.
• Opportunity to participate in hybrid cloud model with deep infrastructure integration between on premise and virtual datacenters.

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is the nation's largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets, serving 1,100 member companies and 3,500 locations throughout 33 states from 9 wholesale division support centers. Consolidated sales for AWG in 2024 were $12.1 billion. In addition to its cooperative wholesale operations, the company also operates subsidiary companies that provide certain real estate and supermarket development services, and pharmaceutical products. For more information, visit  

 Benefits: 

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance 
• Health Savings Account 
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account 
• Paid Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time 
• 401(k) with 4% match along with 3 other contributions 
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Basic & Supplemental Life and AD&D 
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 
• Wellness Program 
• Yearly Holiday Bonus