Systems Engineer (Merchandising)

AutoZone is seeking a seasoned Engineer to join our expanding Merchandising team, with a focus on driving key business initiatives that encompass both domestic and international strategies for the Merchandising organization.
As a Systems Engineer you will play a pivotal role in the transition and management of services/applications to the production environment, using various AI tools and methodologies. Your focus will be on Java-based applications, Cloud based environment, production operations, capacity planning, and performance management. This role offers a blend of teamwork and autonomy, coupled with the opportunity to engineer innovative solutions to complex technical challenges. You will be challenged to solve complex technical problems with unique solutions, identify improvements and work on implementing your recommendations.

• AutoZoners have a contagious work ethic; including a high sense of urgency to resolve issues quickly, creatively and efficiently. We also expect a high sense of responsibility and the ability to influence others. As an expert in your field, we expect you to:

o Ensure that sites and systems continuously and consistently run smoothly, optimally, efficiently, reliably and monitored.
o As an AutoZoner, you will be surrounded consistently by top tier talent (both onsite as well as remote); to effectively work with your team you will be expected to hold a high level of organization, detail orientation, and the ability to articulate issues, as well as propose solutions, clearly.

• 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
• Advocate for top-notch design standards and lead process improvements in collaboration with architects and Application Engineers
• Collaborate and consult with the Merchandising Engineering team to help automate the end-to-end Operations of the applications/systems
• Accurate work planning and execution; accurate project and time tracking
• Bachelor’s Degree in MIS, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field required
• 4 to 6 years of experience in the role of a Software Engineer, Developer or similar including:

o Strong software development background in Java/J2EE Technologies
o Previous experience in CI/CD as well as version control systems (preferably Git)
o Experience with cloud infrastructure preferred, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• As a plus (but not required):

o Experience in AI Development, Spring Boot, RestAPI’s, React.js, NoSQL Databases, Cloud Native and ActiveMQ or Kafka

• Experience working on large-scale solutions that were deployed to cloud providers (e.g. PCF, GCP) and integrated capabilities specific to those platforms
• Experience with scripting
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot critical production issues spanning applications/infrastructure and tune high volume applications