Job Description

Job Description

Company Name: Kroger General Office
Position Type: Employee
FLSA Status: 88
Position Summary
Measure, analyze, plan and execute production-like simulations across mobile and web solutions to identify and remediate performance problems, prevent production outages and guarantee predictable performance. Identify key technology and architectures, to creatively scale and improve code base performance, reduce resource consumption and shorten request latency. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Essential Job Functions

* Monitor application performance during performance tests or production usage using APM and other monitoring tools to isolate the fault domain, dive deep into application code, and identify root cause of performance issues
* Profile application performance from end-user perspective to inventory performance concerns and suggest tuning opportunities across the application stack
* Document performance findings and recommendations
* Interact with project teams, development, operations, and infrastructure resources to recommend solutions to remediate performance issues
* Develop dashboards and reports to provide ongoing visibility into the performance of client applications
* Lead and drive continuous learnings and experiences to the Kroger Performance Center of Excellence (CoE)
* Script and execute performance tests, perform root cause analysis
* Monitor resource usage for physical servers, application servers and databases to drive optimization changes in production environment
* Distill volumes of data, analyzes performance results, diagnoses performance problems and clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders
* Mentor junior level technologist
* Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum Position Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in a STEM related field
* 8+ years of software product development and delivery experience
* 5+ years of performance testing/engineering experience
* 3+ years of HTTP load generation and measurement software experience
* Experience with tools such as Fiddler, Firebug, YSlow and JProfiler
* Proficient in APM products such as AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic. (Dynatrace is preferred)
* Demonstrated experience in Web Applications and Services using JAVA/JAVA EE, Spring, and other related technologies, preferably in an Agile environment, and/or Web Front Ends using JavaScript, Angular, Mongo, Node, CSS, and other related technologies
* Ability to interpret and draw System & Architecture diagrams
* Knowledge of System Resources and Services; Load balancers, Webservers, Database, Operating System, Network Software and Hardware
* Experience in Web server, Application server and Database performance tuning
* Experience in analyzing error, system logs of Web and Application Server, Heap Dump, Thread Dump during failure to determine the cause of failure
* Experience in summarizing large amount of metrics into meaningful graphs and reports
* Familiar with Latest Cloud & Container Technologies

Desired Previous Experience/Education

Education Level: Bachelor's Required
Required Travel: Up to 25%
Required Certifications/Licenses: None
Position Type: Full-Time
Regions: Any; General Office- Cincinnati

States: Alabama; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Florida; Georgia; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Kansas; Kentucky; Michigan; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York; North Carolina; Ohio; Oregon; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Virginia; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin
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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 nearly half a million Associates across 35 states. 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 half a million associates who serve over 11 million customers daily through a seamless shopping experience under a variety of banner names. At The Kroger Co., we are Fresh for Everyone and dedicated to our Purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit. We are committed to creating ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. Careers with The Kroger Co. and our family of companies offer competitive wages, flexible schedules, benefits and room for advancement.

Posting Notes: OH || Cincinnati || 1014 Vine Street || 45202 || Kroger General Office || [[mfield2]] || Kroger Technology/Digital || Employee || Exempt || Full-Time || None