Systems Engineer

SUMMARY

AutoZone is looking for an experienced Systems Engineer to be part of our growing B2B Commercial Development team. As a 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:

• Ensure that sites and systems continuously and consistently run smoothly, optimally, efficiently, and reliably.

• Collaborate with Development teams to create new and continuously improve products, including planning, testing, staging and deployment

• Develop new features, scaling, automation and self-healing processes for sites and systems

• 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

• Identify and implement code/configuration changes to improve performance and reliability as necessary.

• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment. Continuous learning of AutoZone Culture, Methodology, Architecture, and Software. (Own Professional Development)

• Identify and eliminate manual and/or inefficient processes through the implementation of innovative technology solutions

• Accurate work planning and execution; Accurate project and time tracking

• Collaborate with development teams to create new and continuously improve products, including planning, testing, stating and deployment.

• Advocate for top-notch design standards and lead process improvements in collaboration with architects and Application Engineers

• 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

Requirements:

• Typically requires 4-7 years of experience in the role of a Software Engineer or similar utilizing Java/Spring

• Utilizing Web Services/Messaging, Java, Spring boot, Oracle JVM, Spring, JMS, messaging services, Object Oriented Design principles, UNIX, Linux, Windows , Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, DB2/SQL.

• Experience building and implementing microservice based applications

• A genuine curiosity for computers/software and Innovation

• Experience in designing/developing/Supporting high volume online applications

• Experience with scripting (Shell, Python etc.) and good understanding of Unix/Linux, Networking/Load balancers/Firewalls

• Ability to quickly troubleshoot critical production issues spanning applications/infrastructure and tune high volume online applications

• Strong ability to collaborate and openly communicate cross-functionally, particularly with development teams.

• Exceptional work ethic, high sense of urgency, driven, self-motivated, highly accountable with strong initiative and passion.

Preferred Experience:

• ReactJS / React Native

• Release Automation Engineering experience working with tools such as Jenkins, Jira, Puppet

• Experience in web application development and implementing high level designs for IT solutions

• Familiarity or experience in backend or services development

• Familiarity or experience in mobile application development

• Strong Unix developer who is open to doing production application performance tuning and troubleshooting

• Experience with monitoring tools ( Dynatrace , Matlock )

Education:

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