Platform Engineer - Full-time / Part-time

Company Name: Kroger General Office
Position Type: Employee
FLSA Status: Exempt
Line of Business: Digital Technology

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Additional Technology Information: 
This position will work in an Agile environment serving as Internet Edge Content Delivery and Security Engineer for the Digital customer team.This role will be part of the exciting Digital customer team. This is a highly innovative team situated in our own newly remodeled Digital Customer Innovation Center in beautiful Blue Ash, Ohio. The team delivers mobile applications, eCommerce platforms and customer-facing site solutions that provide Kroger customers with a world class digital and mobile shopping experience. This is a new and exciting environment with a "start-up", innovative culture and the opportunity to have a major impact on the future of digital shopping at Kroger.Key skills include: •In-depth experience in administering and optimizing a content delivery on a globally distributed platform•In-depth experience in creating and implementing a web application firewall (WAF) on a globally distributed platform•In-depth experience with web content delivery, performance, and security standards and best practices to build hardened and resilient environments•Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex multi-tiered application architectures with disparate middleware technologies•Demonstrated excellent communication skills•Familiarity with Agile methodologies a plus•Responsible for resolution of production incidents, which may require 24 hr/7 day week coverage

 

Position Summary:

The technology engineer is responsible for the system’s overall infrastructure, including engineering, implementation and integration, and technical services and support. This role will design, implement/install, maintain and administer infrastructure systems, including hardware, software and various configurations; monitor overall performance to proactively identify potential issues and correct them appropriately; and perform root cause analysis on failed components and implement corrective measures. The technology engineer mentors and coaches others to establish and improve processes and procedures. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Essential Job Functions:

• Ensure adherence to architecture standards and roadmaps.
• Design and successfully implement overall infrastructure/middleware components for each project with infrastructure teams, ensuring that the overall solution is designed to meet service-level agreements (SLA) concerning performance and uptime, disaster recovery (DR) specifications, and scalability needs required by the solution.
• Ensure that post-production operational processes/deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase.
• Define and create operational procedures, processes, and scripts.
• Follow appropriate change/release management practices.
• Support and maintain infrastructure solutions utilizing required tools and technologies.
• Develop and maintain deployed technology list for each infrastructure discipline.
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies with infrastructure teams to ensure adherence to architecture guidelines for the introduction of new technologies.
• Evaluate vendors’ technical and support capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership on establishing standards and guidelines.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Minimum Position Qualifications:

• 4years’ experience in support and/or engineering for the specific technical discipline: security, database, network, collaboration, desktop, storage, backup / recovery, mainframe platforms, UNIX platforms, AS/400 platforms, Windows platforms, web engineering, Citrix, directory services, and integration (enterprise application integration (EAI), batch and real-time solutions)
• Communicate information to customers and associates at all levels within the organization through effective communication and presentation skills
• Provide off hour support (24/7) as needed
• Ability to understand company business problems and identify probable technical solutions to those problems

Desired Previous Job Experience & Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems (IS) or related equivalent work experience in an IS position.
• Technical knowledge of procedural, web, and client server development languages and methodologies
• Professional knowledge of data modeling and design and business process engines
• Certification within discipline

Education Level: None
Required Certifications/Licenses: None
Position Type: Full-Time 
Shift(s): [[mfield4]]

States: Ohio
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Jobs at Kroger: At Kroger, we hire people who have a passion for helping others and who want to build a relationship with our Customers. No matter what stage of your career, you can build your future at Kroger. We look for people who want more, aspire to be more and work hard to achieve their goals. Our focus on keeping the Customer first is what makes us successful. As the largest traditional grocery chain in the U.S. and one of the world's largest retailers, we employee more than 443,000 Associates across 35 states and the District of Columbia. We offer many opportunities not only in our stores, but in Manufacturing, Logistics, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, and many other fields.

 

Company Overview
Kroger Family of Companies employs nearly 443,000 associates who serve customers in 2,796 retail food stores under a variety of in 35 states and the District of Columbia.  Kroger and its subsidiaries operate an expanding ClickList offering – a personalized, order online, pick up at the store service – in addition to 2,253 pharmacies, 787 convenience stores, 324 fine jewelry stores, 1,439 supermarket fuel centers and 38 food production plants in the United States.  Kroger is recognized as one of America’s most generous companies for its support of more than 100 Feeding America food bank partners, breast cancer research and awareness, the military and their families, and more than 145,000 community organizations including schools. Careers with The Kroger Co. and our family of companies offer competitive wages, flexible schedules, benefits and room for advancement.

 

 Posting Notes:  OH || Blue Ash || 11450 Grooms Road || 45242 || Kroger General Office || [[mfield2]] || Information Services and Systems || Employee || Exempt || Full-Time || None