About the company

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons is one of the largest retail employers, providing approximately 300,000 jobs across 2,200 stores, 22 distribution centers, 20 food and beverage plants and various support offices. We operate in 34 states and the District of Columbia under the Albertsons banner, as well as Safeway, Tom Thumb, Jewel Osco, Shaw’s and many more recognizable names.

Albertsons Companies recently rolled out our Presence with a Purpose work model. Placing a premium on adaptability, safety and family well-being, Presence with a Purpose will help us build a hybrid work environment between remote work and office time. A one-size-fits-all approach does not apply to everyone, and teams are allowed to make decisions that are best for them.

What you will be doing

This Sr DevOps Engineer will work on the container technologies like Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, and related tools to develop frameworks, drive adoption across the company across all IT Portfolio's. Key to this position is critical thinking, technology awareness, Market research, Open source mindset and communication to influence Technology direction with development teams.

The position will be based in Pleasanton, California, Plano, Texas or Phoenix, Arizona.

Main responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain container platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Azure Kubernetes Services.
• Ensure accessibility, security, reliability, availability, and performance of infrastructure.
• Administer tools and processes to build, test, deploy, and monitor software.
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations.
• Being the last line of support of services and applications in production.
• Evangelize a DevOps culture of automation, self-service, and engineering best practices to enable development teams to go from development to production with a minimum effort.

The salary range is $118,600 to $154,240 annually. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. There may be flexibility for exceptional candidates.

A copy of the full job description can be made available to you.

What we are searching for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
• 6+ years of comprehensive experience with Azure including a solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline, Jenkins, Maven, Spring Boot.
• Strong and proven experience in DevOps, Automation and/or Software development lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of all layers of the TCP/IP stack and common Internet services/protocols such as SMTP, DNS, LDAP, NTP, and HTTP.
• Proficiency in shell scripting and Python highly desirable.
• Deep troubleshooting skills that involve analysis of logs, traffic trace, configuration data, automation tools to resolve issues until end-to-end systems are functioning.
• Experience with infrastructure provisioning tools such as Chef, Terraform, or Puppet in production environments with many nodes, and understanding of Linux and Windows Platforms.
• Experience deploying to and orchestrating containers in production environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with restful services, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, cloud system (Azure) and API Management.
• Knowledgeable about security, networking, and RDBMS/Database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Redis).
• Strong mission to put pro-active solutions in place to prevent future problems and automate processes so that engineers can self-service their operational requirements.
• Passion of Open Source technologies, developing common libraries to be used by developer community.
• Strong experience in developing Platform components and help development teams to build consistent applications.
• Required ability to work across platforms and languages at all levels of the stack.
• A strong motivation for self-directed learning when called for to take on challenges to provide solutions in fast faced environment in areas API management, Microservices, DevOps and Common Frameworks.
• In-depth knowledge on developing frameworks, common services in collaboration with development community.
• Ability to work in Agile environment.
• Development experience in designing/implementing large scale, distributed systems in production class software on public cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP.

What it is like at Albertsons?

Albertsons Culture Principles

Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect

Team: We always support and recognize each other

Inclusive: We always value everyone’s perspective

Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others

Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer

Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success