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 : Senior Staff Engineer Cloud
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 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
We believe the successful candidate has these qualifications and experience :
12+ 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 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
Mentored senior and junior engineers on best practices for event-driven architecture, message queue design, and integration patterns, fostering technical growth and cross-functional collaboration.
Lead the projects from concept to deployment, guiding the team through engineering decisions, backlog grooming, and sprint execution while promoting ownership and accountability.
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.
Senior Cloud Engineer • Delhi, India