Application Support Level 3_

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Job Title:
Application Support Level 3/ Site Reliability, and Operations Engineer

Location:
Blue Ash, OH — 5 days a week; willingness to travel and provide onsite support for new go-lives, pilots, and rollouts.

Duration: 18 months (CTH)

• Major Incident Management experience — has actually run or driven a bridge/war-room for a P1/P2 outage, not just "participated." This is the core of the role; everything else is supporting it. Ask for a specific incident they led end-to-end.
• RCA/Problem Management rigor — can articulate a structured RCA methodology (5-whys, fishbone, timeline reconstruction) and, more importantly, examples where they drove a corrective action to closure (not just wrote a doc that nobody actioned).
• Production troubleshooting under pressure across a mixed stack — comfortable reading logs/dashboards (Dynatrace-type tooling) and reasoning about cloud + on-prem + store/POS systems simultaneously, since a real incident here will span all three.

Level 3 (LV3) Support, Site Reliability, and Operations Engineer supporting the point-of-sale and retail platform. This role partners with developers throughout the SDLC and focuses on incident response, production troubleshooting, and driving reliability improvements. We value problem-solving instinct, curiosity, and drive more than a checklist of prior experience — candidates early in their career or without every listed skill are encouraged to apply.

• Level 3 (LV3) Support, Site Reliability, and Operations Engineer supporting Kroger's Next Generation Point of Sale (NGPOS) platform
• This team is embedded within the engineering organization, partnering directly with developers throughout the SDLC rather than sitting in a separate support silo
• We care more about problem-solving instinct, curiosity, and drive than a checklist of prior experience — the items below describe a strong match, not a hard bar, and candidates early in their career or without every listed skill are encouraged to apply
• In office, Blue Ash, OH — 5 days a week; willingness to travel and provide onsite support for new go-lives, pilots, and rollouts
• Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation (nights/weekends/holidays) for 24x7 support; PTO/leave may be restricted during peak retail periods and major go-lives
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience) preferred; prior experience in application support, operations, or engineering is a plus but not required
• Exposure to Point of Sale systems in enterprise environments is helpful; some experience with Java is preferred, Go is a plus
• Any exposure to SQL or No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., MongoDB), scripting (Shell, Power Shell, or Python), or ITSM/monitoring tooling (Service Now, Jira, Confluence, Splunk, Grafana, or equivalent) is a plus — willingness to learn these on the job matters more than prior mastery
• Interest in or willingness to learn payment card security standards (PCI-DSS)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to translate between business users and Kroger Technology teams
• Familiarity with the Agile process is helpful; experience as a Scrum Master a plus
• Willingness to speak up and challenge developers on Agile best practices and definitions of done during refinement and QA
• Accountable for driving support tickets and emails to resolution
• Good judgment under pressure; able to prioritize…