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.

Position Title: Staff Engineer Network - Observability
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Experience Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 9+ years of experience in network engineering or SRE roles, with a strong focus on cloud observability.
• Proven hands-on experience in Azure, GCP, and OCI networking and monitoring services.
• Expert-level experience with Grafana, including dashboard creation, alerting, and plugin integration.
• Proficiency in Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, or similar observability stack components.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals: BGP, DNS, VNETs / VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, load balancing.
• Experience with cloud-native logging and metrics services (e.g., Azure Log Analytics, GCP Cloud Logging, OCI Logging).
• Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

Core Technical Skills:
Networking Expertise

• Deep understanding of protocols: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, DNS, etc.
• Familiarity with network architectures (LAN / WAN, SD-WAN, cloud networking)

Monitoring & Telemetry Tools

• Tools like ThousandEyes, Kentik, AppNeta, SolarWinds, Nagios, Zabbix
• SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX, syslog, packet capture tools (Wireshark, tcpdump)

Observability Platforms Must

• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry

Data Analysis & Visualization

• Ability to interpret metrics, logs, traces
• Experience with time-series databases (InfluxDB, Prometheus TSDB)

Scripting & Automation - Must

• Python, Bash, or PowerShell for custom data collection and automation
• REST APIs for integrating observability tools

Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Monitoring

• AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite
• Understanding of cloud-native networking and service meshes (e.g., Istio)

Analytical & Soft Skills:
Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis

• Ability to correlate data across layers (network, application, infrastructure)

Performance Tuning

• Identifying bottlenecks and optimizing network paths

Security Awareness

• Detecting anomalies, DDoS patterns, and unauthorized access

Collaboration

• Working with SREs, DevOps, and network teams to improve visibility

Documentation & Reporting

• Creating dashboards, reports, and incident postmortems

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with AI/ML for anomaly detection
• Familiarity with SIEM tools (Security Information and Event Management)
• Knowledge of SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs in service reliability

Must have Skills:

• Observability Platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or any other platform)
• Scripting & Automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell etc. for custom data collection and automation)

Skills Required