Advanced Engineer DevOps [T500-22158]

About Albertsons Companies Inc. (ACI):

As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week.

We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.

Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.

About Albertsons India Capability Center:

At Albertsons India Capability Center, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the companys technology journey to support millions of customers lives every day.

At the Albertsons India Capability Center, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons India Capability Center, associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.

What you will be doing:

We are seeking an accomplished Advanced Observability DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes, Helm, Grafana, and modern cloud native architectures. This role will be responsible for the design, deployment, and optimization of scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure while driving DevOps, GitOps, and SRE best practices. The candidate will work closely with the Lead Platform Engineer, data ingestion, and Platform DevOps teams under the Observability product. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams like Container Platform and Platform DevOps to automate CI/CD pipelines, enhance observability, and ensure platform reliability across multi-cloud (Azure/GCP) and hybrid environments.

This position will preferably be based out of India GCC, Bangalore.

Key Responsibilities:

• Experience in observability and monitoring initiatives as a DevOps Engineer
• Experience with container orchestration to deploy and manage highly available Kubernetes clusters (AKS, GKE, or on-prem) using GitHub Actions
• Develop and maintain Helm charts for application deployments, ensuring versioning, templating, and dependency management
• Experience in automating, managing, and monitoring cloud-native infrastructure and deployments
• Implement GitOps workflows for declarative infrastructure and application deployments
• Optimize multi-cloud networking (VPC, CNI plugins, service meshes like Istio) for performance and security
• Build, configure, and manage observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, etc.) and experience building observability dashboards with custom PromQL queries for Kubernetes and microservices
• Implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Tempo) and log aggregation (Loki, Vector)
• Define SLOs and SLIs, automate incident response (ServiceNow), and conduct blameless postmortems
• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins with infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and self-healing of cloud resources
• Enforce DevSecOps practices (SAST/DAST, secret management with Vault, SOPS, or Azure/GCP)
• Optimize Kubernetes resource usage (HPA, VPA) and cloud cost efficiency (FinOps principles)
• Troubleshoot cluster performance, networking bottlenecks, and storage (CSI drivers, Rook/Ceph)
• Development and implementation of build and release pipelines with accountability for managing deployment schedules, issues, risks, and impediments
• Agile development experience with team member accountability for commitment and delivery each sprint
• Troubleshoot and implement corrections to problems associated with connectivity between supported applications and the clients they serve
• Provide technical guidance in the diagnosis of issues as they arise in support of critical application deployments
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and enhancement of critical application deployment Helm charts and CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure that all implementations of observability meet the requirements prescribed by IT Services through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies, and deliverables
• Ability to provide coding and technical direction to less experienced staff or develop highly complex original code
• Track infrastructure delivery and dependencies to implementation.

We are searching for someone with the following skills:

• Strong Experience with Kubernetes (AKS/ GKE) and Helm
• Proficient in containerization technologies like Docker
• Good Knowledge and understanding of Azure foundation components e.g. App GW, APIM, Virtual Network, NSG, Load Balancer, Azure VM etc. is required.
• Experience with Databases PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Rook/ Ceph or similar databases.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Log Analytics, App Dynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and Sitescope
• Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies
• Knowledge of security best practices for DevSecOps workflows, OPA/ Gatekeeper
• Deploying/managing and optimizing enterprise level observability platform deployments for Grafana OSS products like Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Fluentbit/Vector
• Experience must include CI/CD and infrastructure automation tools: Terraform(required) AWX, Desired-Ansibe
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies in Azure, OCI, and Google Cloud
• Experience on PCF, Docker, Kubernetes platform is required.
• Experience with scripting on Bash, Python, PowerShell or Go is required.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools and processes is required.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Ansible and Terraform
• Experience with multi-cloud networking (VPC, CNI plugins, service meshes like Istio) required.
• Experience in working with ServiceNow or similar Service Management tools

Below Certifications data is strongly preferred, but not required:

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Developer (CKAD) / Security (CKS)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer
• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies is required.

We believe the successful candidate has these qualifications and experience:

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 everyones 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