Job Description

About Albertsons Companies India
Albertsons Companies is a leading food and drug retailer in the United States. As of February 22, 2025, the Company operated 2,270 retail stores with 1,728 in-store pharmacies, 405 associated fuel centers, 22 dedicated distribution centers and 19 manufacturing facilities. Albertsons Companies India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company & technology journey to support millions of customers & lives every day.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
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, Shaws and many more recognizable names.
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 under 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 DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with Container Orchestration, 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 (Open Telemetry, Jaeger, Tempo) and log aggregation (Loki, Vector).
• Define SLOs/SLIs, automate incident response (Service Now), and conduct blameless postmortems.
• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, 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 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 the 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.
• Able to provide coding and technical direction to less experienced staff or develops 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 Analaytics, 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:

• 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
• 9-12+ years of experience on integration engineering related to Observability/Monitoring framework with open-source technologies such as Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Fluentbit, Vector etc.,
• Hands-on experience with Tools and Technology is preferred.
• 6+ years of experience as a System Reliability Engineer is required.
• Experience working with Open-source platforms and Open Telemetry libraries e.g. Grafana is preferred.

Skills Required