Staff Engineer-Cloud

Job Description

Why choose us?

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who's not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that's constantly evolving.

Bring your flavor

Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.

Main responsibilities:

Kafka Administration and Support

• Architect, build and maintain Kafka cluster on containers and VMs in multi-cloud
• Help Onboard application topics, connectors.
• Identify root causes/ debugging of problems and troubleshoot, considering both long and short-term impact of proposed solutions and developed workable solutions
• Monitor failures; help with message reprocessing.
• Manage Kafka operations, including VM, containers, connect cluster, cluster-linking health.
• Automate the daily operation related activities using ansible and Github.
• Co-ordinate with application teams to ensure the infrastructure is with the latest maintenance level.
• Perform upgrades and patching
• Ingest Kafka monitoring metrics to Grafana dashboard
• Enable Oauth and RBAC policy for applications
• Install certs, upgrade certs and enable SASL connectivity

MQ/Active MQ/ IBM ACE Administration and Support

• Architect, build and maintain Active MQ cluster on containers and VMs.
• Help Onboard application topics, create queues.
• Identify root causes/ debugging of problems and troubleshoot, considering both long and short-term impact of proposed solutions and developed workable solutions
• Monitor failures; help with message reprocessing.
• Manage MQ/ACE operations, flows, queues and topics.
• Automate the daily operation related activities using ansible and Github.
• Co-ordinate with application teams to ensure the infrastructure is with the latest maintenance level.
• Perform upgrades and patching
• Ingest MQ monitoring metrics to Grafana dashboard.
• Enable LDAP authentication for applications
• Install certs, enable SSL connectivity

We are looking for candidates who possess the following:

• 10 plus years of experience in Kafka and MQ Administration, and support.
• Experience in Confluent platform 7.x on containers is a big plus.
• Experience in Apache Kafka on containers a big plus.
• Experience building clusters using ci/cd tools
• Automation of repetitive tasks like topic creation, connector creation, rbac provisioning
• Experience with Schema registry and KSQL
• Experience with Ansible, cp-ansible.
• Experience in setting up DR / Active-Active clusters
• Experience with Cluster linking and Schema linking
• Able to troubleshoot producer and consumer issues and provides suggestions to developers on the tuning parameters
• Experience setting up various connectors: MQ, Jdbc, Splunk, BQ, Blob, etc. .
• Able to support high priority production issues and bring it closure and provide RCA & fix
• Experience with KSQL (Kafka streams) and Rest proxy
• Experience in MQ platform 9.x on azure cloud is a big plus
• Experience in ACE 11x is a big plus.
• Experience building clusters and maintaining large cluster environments, HA clusters and RDQM is a big plus.
• Automation of repetitive tasks like topic creation, queue creation, and flow creation.
  Retail and/or grocery industry experience is strongly preferred.
• Expert on Kafka, MQ components, architecture, and implementation.
• Experience in schema registry operations
• Experience with operating on containers AKS and GKE
• Knowledge of various integration patterns, data transfer protocols
• Knowledge of integration with IBM MQ, dataflow, Azure data factory
• Hands-on experience with Kafka on containers and VMs

Business Acumen & Communication

• Skilled at understanding business challenges and translating them into solutions that create measurable impact.
• Prior collaboration experience with business teams to ensure effective integration with business applications.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently while seeking direction when necessary.

We also provide a variety of benefits including:

• Competitive wages paid weekly

Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream

• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve

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About Us

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. Committed to innovation and fostering a culture of belonging, our team is united with a unique purpose: to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being. We want talented individuals to be part of this journey!

Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI) is a leading food and drug retailer in the U.S. We operate over 2,200 stores, 1,732 pharmacies, 405 fuel centers, 22 distribution facilities, and 19 manufacturing plants across 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Shaw's, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets, United Express, Randalls, Albertson's Market, Pavilions, Star Markets, Market Street, Carrs, Haggen, Lucky, Amigos, Andronico's Community Markets, King's, Balducci's, and Albertson's Market Street.

Our vision is to be a retail leader admired for national strength with deep local roots, offering an easy, fun, friendly, and inspiring experience, no matter how customers choose to shop with us. We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and strive to create a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and can fully contribute to their and our company's success.

Bring your flavor

Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. All employees must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel may vary within store and/or from store to store and the official job description will be provided during the application process.

Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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