Storage Administrator IV

Ahold Delhaize Group is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Ahold Delhaize Group is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but Ahold Delhaize Group associates also work in all the countries we serve.

This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions.

Primary Purpose

The Storage Administrator IV is a senior practitioner who leads complex operational changes, performance optimization, and lifecycle upgrades across enterprise storage platforms, partnering closely with engineering and application teams to sustain high availability and consistent service quality.

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations are Salisbury, NC & Quincy, MA.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead complex provisioning, migrations, and fabric changes while minimizing service risk.
• Optimize performance through workload analysis, cache/tier tuning, and path balancing.
• Implement replication, snapshot policies, and backup integration aligned to RPO/RTO targets.
• Drive capacity planning and hardware refreshes, providing data driven forecasts and recommendations.
• Automate routine tasks and enforce configuration standards via scripts and templates.
• Resolve advanced incidents and mentor junior team members on troubleshooting methods.
• Communicate planned changes and potential impacts to Engineers, Product Managers, and support teams.
• Uphold SLA adherence through proactive monitoring, trend analysis, and health checks.
• Maintain high quality documentation, diagrams, and SOPs supporting consistent operations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent years of work experience.
• 5+ years in enterprise storage administration (SAN/NAS), including fabrics and multipathing.
• Proficiency with one or more enterprise storage vendor platforms and backup solutions.
• Strong scripting capability (Power Shell/Bash) and hands on experience with monitoring and ITSM tools.
• Ability to lead complex changes and mentor junior team members.
• Excellent communication, incident management, and prioritization skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud file/block services (e.g., Azure Files, AWS EBS/FSx) and hybrid data mobility.
• Relevant vendor certifications (Net App, Dell/EMC, Pure, HPE) and ITIL Foundation.

Salary Range: $125,040 - $187,560

All ADUSA job offers take multiple factors into consideration including, but not limited to salary range, internal equity, a candidate's qualifications, geographic region, job-related knowledge and skills.

This position is eligible for an incentive bonus based on company performance as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.

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The Ahold Delhaize Group sets global strategies frameworks, facilitates the sharing of best practice and encourages economies of scale. Great examples include sharing technology and digital know-how, so we can continue to lead in online and in-store retailing, setting global targets for healthy and sustainable products-including reducing food waste, use of plastics and making our products healthier to use and eat, and championing development for our future leaders-from learning about the digital mindset to leading our stores of the future.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.