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 position will be responsible for helping drive and implement Albertsons strategic cloud integration strategy, and to support the business, application development, and project teams in the proper use and implementation of integration solutions.

The position will be based in Plano, Texas.

Main responsibilities

• Work with various projects and App Dev teams to integrate applications with Kafka and various other integration technologies such as IBM MQ, IBM IIB, and MIM.
• Install and configure integration software such as MQSeries, MIM, and Kafka on Windows/Linux platforms on azure cloud.
• Review existing Kafka cluster capacity and forecast future requirements. Scale and build out additional clusters as required.
• Create and deploy message-based integration components such as queues, channels, and topics.
• Automate Kafka cluster builds and create Jenkins pipeline for deployments.
• Automate kafka topic creation and integrate with Service now.
• Lead migration of MQ/MIM and Kafka from on premise cloud to Azure/GCP cloud
• Performs OS-level maintenance activities, such as renewing certificates and creating service accounts to support application integration.
• Create automated performance, baseline, and scalability tests for REST APIs using Jenkins, Python, and JMeter
• Create CICD pipeline, testing framework, and test strategy.
• Design and build Integration solutions that support data exchange between applications using messaging, ETL or managed file transfers.
• Guide project and application development teams in implementing appropriate integration solutions based on required use cases.
• Update team on new product features and new Integration Technologies.
• Create Integration documentation, project documentation, product roadmap on confluence.
• Publish and promote Integration Technologies and proper usage.
• Identify internal and external performance bottlenecks, perform proactive, automated performance baseline tests.
• Mentor and coach offshore Devops team members on how to create and tune additional performance tests for critical endpoints.

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

What we are searching for

• Must have a 4-year degree (Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years overall IT experience and 4+ years of experience with software engineering using various integration technologies, such as Confluent Kafka, IBM MQ and IIB.
• Must have 5+ years of experience in a highly complex and dynamic environment as an Integration Engineer responsible for design, implementation, installation, configuration, and 3rd level support of Integration products.
• 3+ years’ experience as a Confluent Kafka Administrator, with working experience using Confluent Kafka Connect (JMS, JDBC), Confluent Control Center, Confluent Replicator or MirrorMaker, Confluent Kafka security (Kerberos, ACL, SSL, SASL). Confluent KSQL and schema registry.
• Knowledge of using monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana or DataDog.
• Scripting in Shell, Perl, AWK or Python is required. SQL experience a plus
• Knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Oracle, DB2, and SQL
• Must demonstrate proven ability to analyze problems, propose solutions, and drive issues to resolution, individually and when leading a group to reach a conclusion.
• Knowledge and use of Enterprise Managed File transfer solutions a plus.
• Knowledge of different operating systems such as Windows and Linux required.
• Knowledge of Network protocols a plus.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and team building skills are essential.
• Candidate must work well in a fast-paced, changing environment and can manage multiple projects, support, and initiatives all with different priorities at the same time.
• Candidate must be able to lead and influence others and drive collaborative work sessions.

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