Albertsons

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. #LI-SG1

What you will be doing

The Technology & Engineering Department has an opening for a Senior Retail Application Support Engineer in the Retail Operations team. Our tool suite includes Java, Micro-services, Sprint Boot, MS-Azure, Python, GIT, Pearl, React, GIT, Jenkins cloud and on-prem environments. 

This role requires the candidate to perform troubleshooting, incident resolution, including configuring and implementing alert monitoring within the suite of customer facing experience applications. As a member of the application support team, the candidate needs to be able to support and maintain applications written in Java, shell scripting, and the various common full stack modern technologies.

The position will be based in Pleasanton, CA or Plano, TX.

Main responsibilities

• Diagnose, isolate, and debug production issues to quickly resolve customer-facing incidents. 
• Actively drives post-incident root cause analysis efforts. 
• Partners with development engineers by implementing corrections to problems associated with supported applications and the customers they serve. 
• Provides technical guidance in the diagnosis of issues as they arise in support of critical applications. 
• Drives collaboration sessions among IT and product groups to facilitate optimal performance, support, and operation of the relevant services or applications.
• Contributes to the design, implementation, and enhancement of critical services and applications. 
• Performs proactive analysis and troubleshooting to predict and prevent production incidents. 
• Defines, contributes, and implements performance monitoring capabilities for critical services or applications. 
• Designs, configures, and implements automated monitoring rules and alerts.
• Participates in Production Turnover activities to bring new platforms and technologies into the environment.
• Interfaces with Engineering Managers, Developers, and Build Experts to understand the technology requested and the business complexities as they relate to IT requirements.

The salary range is $131,600 to $171,080 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 

• Ability to understand client expectations and to resolve issues that may affect service. 
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple levels of the organization.
• Ability to mentor, coach and train other application support engineers
• Self-starter, with a demonstrated ability to learn beyond formal training with a strong aptitude for delivering quality products.
• Experience in a retail environment is preferred 

We believe the successful candidate has these qualifications and experience:

• 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or related functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
• 5+ years of programming experience using various standard scripting languages and high-level programming languages.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with an ability to quickly diagnose complex production issues
• Experience with application servers (WebSphere, WebLogic, and/or JBoss) and database technologies (Oracle, DB2, and/or SQL Server).
• Experience in UI/Web 2.0 Development (JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, Adobe Flash/Flex, Dojo, YUI, and/or JQuery). 
• Strong knowledge of UNIX and Windows operating systems
• Experience creating and maintaining application processes and documentation
• Knowledge of current monitoring tools is preferred
• Exposure to network concepts and technologies
• Strong experience with the full software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (Agile). 
• Strong experience creating and maintaining application processes and documentation

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.

Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

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