(USA) Staff, Software engineer (DevOps and Automation)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team: Store Systems

Associate productivity and pricing team supports the successful deployment and adoption of tools and products across WM US Stores which enables them to run the business. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve technology and products to help associates, store managers and market managers, so they can focus on what matters most – help our customers and members.

What you will do :

 As Associate productivity and pricing staff automation engineer, you will be responsible for

• Continuously learn and increase adoption of DevOps best practices by socializing across the organization.
• Help engineering teams to build highly Observable and Resilient systems
• Performance Engineering for mobile apps using tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or Gatling.
• Handson triaging skills to debug and automate Rest API issues. 
• Collaborate with developers to capture requirements and understand their pain points
• Build reusable tools, library, dashboards which can be used across DevOps/SRE teams
• Create new self-service solutions in order to push the boundaries of our automation capabilities
• Generate proper designs, documentation and present to stakeholders
• Using Agile methods [Scrum/Kanban] to organize project deliverables, to track and report progress
• Support operations, meeting reliability and capacity requirements
• Responsible for timely root cause analysis of production issues.
• Develop reusable tooling and processes to drive and improve customer experience and lower operational costs.
• Play a key role in driving the product roadmap, sprint planning, stand-ups
• Drive quarterly objectives to completion

What is expected from you:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• 8+ years of hands-on related infrastructure, performance and API automation experience
• Strong experience with development in any one these languages (Python/Go/Java)
• Experience building tools/dashboards as full stack developer
• Experience in Microsoft Azure cloud platform preferred (AWS/GCP is also OK)
• Expertise in tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible/Chef/Puppet etc
• Strong knowledge on GIT
• Strong experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Bash/Python/Go
• Strong working experience with containers and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh like Istio, etc
• Demonstrated knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools automation
• Good Experience with networking concepts and protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, SSH, Firewall, VPN, Routing and Load Balancing)
• Good Experience with Linux and open source software
• Experience with Monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Grafana etc
• Experience with logging solutions like Splunk, ELK etc
• Experience with code-quality and automated testing (Sonar, JUnit, Selenium or similar)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

• System Design & Architecture Knowledge to build/support highly scalable & available apps
• Experience of doing load/performance tests and other non-functional testing
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with messaging system like Kafka
• Experience with API standards (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML)
• Experience with chaos testing
• Experience with implementing Disaster Recovery Solutions