Engineer,Associate Systems Jobs

AutoZone is looking for an experienced Associate Systems Engineer to be part of our growing Store Development team. As an Associate Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the transition and management of services/applications to production environment with deep focus on architecture, production operations, capacity planning and performance management. The role provides a mixture of production platform ownership as well as engineering. You will solve challenging technical problems, identify improvements and work on implementing your recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features, scaling, automation and self-healing processes for sites and systems
• Advocate for top-notch design standards and lead process improvements in collaboration with architects and Application Engineers
• Delegate work to other less experienced engineers and provide coaching/mentorship
• Identify and Implement code/configuration changes to improve performance and reliability as necessary
• Implement effective 360 degree monitoring to ensure quick alerting of any problems in the echo system
• Manage security of production infrastructure and applications in compliance with PCI & PII requirements
• Ensure that sites and systems continuously and consistently run smoothly, optimally, efficiently and reliably.
• Collaborate and consult with the Engineering team to help automate the end-to-end Operations of the applications/systems
• Accurate work planning and execution; accurate project and time tracking
• Collaborate with Development teams to create new and continuously improve products, including planning, testing, staging and deployment

Requirements

• Exceptional work ethic, high sense of urgency, driven, self-motivated, highly accountable with strong initiative and passion.
• Experience with scripting (Shell, Python etc.) and good understanding of Unix/Linux, Networking/Load balancers/Firewalls
• 2 to 3 years of experience in the role of a Software Engineer or similar
• A genuine curiosity for computers/software and Innovation
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot critical production issues spanning applications/infrastructure and tune high volume online applications
• Experience in designing/developing/Supporting high volume online applications
• Strong ability to collaborate and openly communicate cross-functionally, particularly with development teams.

Preferred Experience

• Strong Unix developer who is open to doing production application performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Experience with monitoring tools (DynaTrace, NewRelic, Splunk, ELK etc.)
• Release Automation Engineering experience working with tools such as Jenkins, Jira, Puppet
• C/C++/ReactJS

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or closely related required