ANSR is hiring for one of our client
About Albertsons Companies Inc. :
As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week. We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers’ problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.
Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.
About Albertsons Companies India :
At Albertsons Companies India, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company’s technology journey to support millions of customers’ lives every day.
At the Albertsons Companies India, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons Companies India, associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.
Position Title : Advanced Engineer Cloud - Kafka Admin & support
What you will be doing :
Kafka Administration and Support (Kafka / Streaming) :
- 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
Main responsibilities :
What we are searching for :
Retail and / or grocery industry experience is strongly preferred.Expert on Kafka components, architecture and its implementation.Experience in schema registry operationsExperience with operating on containers AKS and GKEKnowledge of various integration patterns, data transfer protocolsKnowledge of integration with IBM MQ, dataflow, Azure data factoryHands-on experience with Kafka on containers and VMsWe believe the successful candidate has these qualifications and experience :
4+ years of experience in Kafka 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 toolsAutomation of repetitive tasks like topic creation, connector creation, rbac provisioningExperience with Schema registry and KSQLExperience with Ansible, cp-ansible.Experience in setting up DR / Active-Active clustersExperience with Cluster linking and Schema linkingAble to troubleshoot producer and consumer issues and provides suggestions to developers on the tuning parametersExperience setting up various connectors : MQ, Jdbc, Splunk, BQ, Blob, etc. .Able to support high priority production issues and bring it closure and provide RCA & fixExperience with KSQL (Kafka streams) and Rest proxyBusiness 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.