About the company 

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose: to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community.

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants.

Placing a premium on adaptability, safety and family well-being, our work model, Presence with a Purpose, offers a hybrid work environment between remote work and office time.  A one-size-fits-all approach does not apply to everyone, and teams are empowered to make decisions best for them.

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.

What you will be doing 

 The position will be based in Plano TX

Main 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

What we are searching for 

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

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

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

• 5+ years of experience working with configuration management tools like Ansible

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

• 5+ years of experience in provisioning and maintaining AZ or GCP PaaS components, like SQL DB, MongoDB, Storage Accounts/Buckets, Secret Management tools

• Specialized knowledge of shell scripting and Python

• Specialized 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.

• Specialized knowledge of restful services, micro-services architecture, distributed systems and API Management tools.

• Specialized knowledge of security, networking, and RDBMS/Database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Redis).

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

• Specialized knowledge of all layers of the TCP/IP stack and common Internet services/protocols such as SMTP, DNS, LDAP, NTP, and HTTP.

What is it like at Albertsons? 

Our 290,000 associates have a passion for great service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Through a companywide focus on innovation, we are continually enhancing our digital and product offerings, making it easy for customers to get what they need, wherever they are.

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