AutoZone: Senior Systems Engineer (Inventory Visibility)

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for joining a development team and contributing to the software design, software development, and overall development lifecycle.

The engineering process is highly collaborative.

On a daily basis, you are expected to work through user stories and support systems as they evolve.

In addition, you may be involved in system configuration, performance tuning and testing as well as production monitoring.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will be able to operate independently, though typically will work as part of a team with varying skillsets to create, support, and deploy production applications.

Responsibilities: Delivery & Execution: Collaborates with other team members to create secure, reliable and scalable software solutions Works with Product owner to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively Support & Enablement: Fields questions from other development teams or support teams Mentors lesser experienced Engineers as needed Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across teams When required provides application support for software running in production Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for products Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing Learning: Participates in learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice) Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Technology or similar required; MS/MA preferred 8-15 years of demonstrated experience Preferred Qualifications: 1-3 years of relevant work experience Experience in a programming languages such as Java, Python etc.

Experience in a modern web application framework such as Spring MVC, and Node.Js Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database Experience in a version control system (preferably Git) Experience in a Linux or Unix based environment Exposure to a CI/CD toolchain e.G.

Jenkins Exposure to a cloud computing platform and the associated automation patterns they provide Exposure to production systems design including High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security Exposure to defensive coding practices and patterns for high-availability Exposure to a NoSQL database Exposure to query optimization and troubleshooting Exposure to effective data modeling within both SQL and NoSQL databases Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies Exposure to 12-factor methodology and its benefits, and able to demonstrate appropriate patterns to more junior team members Exposure to REST and effective web service design #LI-ZS