Staff Engineer-Cloud

Albertsons Companies • Phoenix, AZ

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About The Position

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

Requirements

• 10 plus years of experience in Kafka and MQ Administration, and support.
• 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
• Automation of repetitive tasks like topic creation, queue creation, and flow creation.
• 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
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Confluent platform 7.x on containers is a big plus.
• Experience in Apache Kafka on containers a big plus.
• 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.
• Retail and/or grocery industry experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Architect, build and maintain Active MQ cluster on containers and VMs.
• Help Onboard application topics, create queues.
• Monitor failures; help with message reprocessing.
• Manage MQ/ACE operations, flows, queues and topics.
• Ingest MQ monitoring metrics to Grafana dashboard.
• Enable LDAP authentication for applications
• Install certs, enable SSL connectivity

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream
• Associate discounts
• Medical, Dental, 401k and more!
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay).
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed