Kafka Engineer

Senior Technology Engineer

Provide advanced and/or cross-technology engineering through all phases of the Technology / Project Life Cycle. The Technology Engineer is responsible for the overall systems infrastructure including engineering, implementation and integration, and technical services and support. The Technology Engineer designs, implements/installs, maintains, and administers infrastructure systems including hardware, software, and various configurations. Monitors overall performance to proactively identify potential issues and tune appropriately.

Performs root cause analysis on failed components and implements corrective measures. The Technology Engineer mentors and coaches others to establish and improve processes and procedures. Role model and demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety of others.

Essential Job Functions:

• Ensure adherence to architecture standards and roadmaps
• Design and successfully implement overall infrastructure / middleware components per project with infrastructure teams, ensuring that overall solution is designed to meet SLA (performance and up-time), DR, and scalability needs required by the solution.
• Support the architecture, engineering, implementation, and support of Kroger custom developed and vendor purchased integration solutions as well as bulk data movement throughout the enterprise and to Kroger external vendors
• Ensure that post-production operational processes / deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase.
• Define and create operational procedures, processes, and scripts.
• Follow appropriate change/release management practices.
• Support and maintain infrastructure solutions utilizing required tools and technologies. Provide off-hours support (24 x
  7) as required.
• Develop and maintain deployed technology list for each infrastructure discipline.
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies with infrastructure teams to ensure adherence to architecture guidelines for new technology introduction.
• Evaluate vendor technical and support capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership on establishing standards and guidelines.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Minimum Position Qualifications:

• Proven communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate information to customers and to all levels within the organization.
• Ability to understand company business problems and identify probable technical solutions to those problems
• 4-6 or more years’ experience in engineering for the specific technical discipline: security, UNIX platforms, Integration (messaging, streaming)
• Any experience integrating open-source technologies in high volume production environments and strong knowledge of agile methodology

Desired Tools and Technologies:

• OS/Programming Languages/Scripting: JAVA, Spring Boot, Spring Microservices, JUnit, REST Webservices, Swagger, Postman, AVRO, JSON, Shell Script, Python, Powershell, Red Hat Linux, Unix, Ubuntu
• Streaming Platforms:
  Apache/Confluent Kafka, Schema Registry, KSQL, KStreams, Azure Event Hubs
• Cloud Platforms:
  Microsoft Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
• Dev Ops:
  Git Hub, Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD Tools (Artifactory, Ansible, Terraform)

Desired Previous Experience/

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in IS or related equivalent work experience in an Information Systems position.