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# Systems Administrator IV

- **Company:** Ahold Delhaize Usa
- **Location:** Salisbury, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $92,640.0 - $159,720.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Configuration Management Databases, Key Management, OpenShift, Role-Based Access Control, Istio, System Availability, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Api Gateway
- **Published:** June 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=47a09e362a4978b4

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Team leadership?, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent years of work experience.

 * 5+ years of experience administering container or shared enterprise platforms.
 * Proficiency with Kubernetes/OpenShift (networking, storage classes, controllers), and GitOps/IaC.
 * Strong skills in observability, incident response, and change controls.
 * Effective communication, incident leadership, and mentoring capabilities., * Relevant certifications (CKA/CKAD/OpenShift) and experience with service mesh or API gateways.

## Description

The Platform Administrator IV is a senior practitioner who leads complex platform changes, optimizes performance, and advances automation. The role partners with engineering and product teams to sustain high availability and consistent service quality., * Lead cluster upgrades, node pool changes, ingress/egress updates, and policy rollouts.

 * Optimize resource utilization and platform reliability via tuning, quotas, and autoscaling.
 * Automate provisioning, configuration, and compliance checks with IaC and GitOps.
 * Implement secrets management, RBAC, and image/security controls aligned to enterprise standards.
 * Resolve advanced incidents and mentor junior teammates on troubleshooting and RCAs.
 * Maintain high quality documentation, diagrams, SOPs, and CMDB accuracy.
 * Monitor SLOs/SLIs, capacity, and health dashboards; recommend corrective actions.
 * Support lifecycle planning (upgrades, deprecation, refresh) and multi tenant governance.


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