Network Security Engineer III

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology

Job Requisition: 485757

Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2085 Harrison Road

Store Code: Infrastructure-Network (5118708)

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 Sr. Network Security Engineer will lead the engineering, delivery, and operations of ADUSA's network security platforms with a key focus on zero trust architecture, next-generation firewalls, and secure connectivity across the enterprise. This role is responsible for the technical design, implementation, and management of mission-critical network security infrastructure spanning ADUSA's data centers, cloud environments, retail locations, corporate offices, and distribution centers.

The Sr. Network Security Engineer will drive the multi-year strategy to transform ADUSA's network security posture, championing zero trust principles and ensuring all network traffic is inspected, segmented, and secured in alignment with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and other regulatory compliance frameworks. This role has overall responsibility for the delivery of secure connectivity, threat mitigation, incident response coordination, firewall and proxy platform management, and policy enforcement across all brands.

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 the design, engineering, and operations of ADUSA's network security platforms including next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet), secure web gateways, and cloud security solutions (Zscaler ZIA/ZPA), ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance across all environments.
• Architect and implement zero trust network security frameworks across the enterprise, defining and enforcing micro-segmentation, least-privilege access policies, identity-based authentication, and continuous verification strategies to minimize the attack surface.
• Manage and maintain firewall rule sets, security policies, NAT configurations, and VPN infrastructure across Palo Alto and Fortinet platforms, ensuring policies are optimized, documented, and aligned with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and corporate security standards.
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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.