Staff Engineer DevOps [T500-21081]

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 : Staff Engineer DevOps

Job Description :

Roles & responsibilities :

Design and implement GitHub Actions CI (Continuous Integration) pipelines which are crucial for compiling the source code and creating the artifact using tools like maven and Gradle

Design and implement GitHub Actions CD (Continuous Deployment) pipelines to deploy the artifacts from the CI process to the different environments like QA, Staging, UAT, Production using tools like GitHub Actions

Design and implement the configuration management process which is vital in maintaining environment specific deployments by using environment and configuration variables through tools like ansible

Ensure 100% uptime of the infrastructure (virtual / cloud / on-premise data centers) that run mission critical software applications and services.

Develop, deploy, and maintain tools for observability of software applications that measure and alert the availability and performance of the software applications and services using tools like AppDynamics, AZ AppInsights, Prometheus and Grafana

Maintain and patch applications and tools used for CI / CD process and production infrastructure for security and compliance

Design and implement Azure Kubernetes Clusters and onboard the business applications

Provision infrastructure components in AZ and GCP based on the Engineering team requirements

Increase the productivity by means of having the infrastructure as code (IaC) and create the provisioning scripts using Terraform

Experience Required :

7+ years of working with one public cloud, Azure or GCP

7+ years of working with DevOps, Automation and / or Software development lifecycle.

7+ years of experience working IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Terraform

7+ years of experience working with configuration management tools like Ansible

7+ years of experience working with CICD tool set - GitHub, GitHub Actions, SonarQube code coverage tool, Code vulnerability scanning tools like Veracode

7+ years of experience in provisioning and maintaining AZ or GCP PaaS components, like Any NoSQL DB / MongoDB, Cassandra, Storage Accounts / Buckets, Secret Management tools

In-depth advanced knowledge of shell scripting and Python

In-depth advanced knowledge of troubleshooting techniques that involve analysis of logs, traffic trace, configuration data, automation tools to resolve issues until end-to-end systems are functioning.

In-depth advanced knowledge of restful services, micro-services architecture, distributed systems and API Management tools.

In-depth advanced knowledge of security, networking, and RDBMS / Database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Redis).

In-depth advanced knowledge of pro-active solutions to prevent future problems and automate processes so that engineers can self-service their operational requirements.

In-depth advanced knowledge of all layers of the TCP / IP stack and common Internet services / protocols such as SMTP, DNS, LDAP, NTP, and HTTP.

Exp with containerized platform

Competencies :

Compassionate and kind, showing courtesy, dignity, and respect. They show sincere interest and empathy for all others.

Foster innovation through creativity to get to a workable solution. Use analytical thinking through issues using logic and reason

Show integrity in what is done and how it is done - without sacrificing personal / business ethics.

Embrace an inclusion-focused mindset, seeking input from others on their work and encouraging the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions

Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale and willing to help.

Learning-Focused, finding ways to improve in their field and use positive constructive feedback to grow personally and professionally

Think strategically and proactively anticipate future problems, needs or changes in the work

Skills Required : Azure Services

DB (Azure SQL, Cosmos and Mongo)

Kafka

Github, GHA, CI / CD

Linux

Containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes

Scripting languages such as Python or Bash

Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools

Monitoring and logging tools like Grafana.

Additional Skills Required :

AZ or GCP Certifications