Overview
H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $25 billion. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 110,000+ Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers.
Responsibilities
H-E-B digital solutions are growing in popularity and adoption, and our Digital Tech teams work in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems.
As a Site Reliability Engineer , you'll use your engineering skills to maximize reliability, availability, and efficiency of our systems, and improve workflow, automation, and scalability.
Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. "Partner-owned" means our most important resources-People-drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.
Do you have a :
HEART FOR PEOPLE... interpersonal skills?
HEAD FOR BUSINESS... a systematic problem-solving approach?
PASSION FOR RESULTS... drive for automation and continuous improvement?
What is the work?
Design & Development / IT :

• Develops / maintains tooling used for environment monitoring and task automation
• Engages in / improves whole lifecycle of services, including inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement
• Analyzes / establishes efficient configurations for software and servers, DB connections / indexes, drivers, etc.
• Collaborates with development teams to design service architectures, software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
• Collaborates with application engineering teams to perform chaos testing
• Scales systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation; evolves systems by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity
• Monitors internal and vendor service level objectives (SLOs) and agreements (SLAs); identifies / resolves SLO / SLA gaps
• Serves as technical subject matter expert (SME) for cross-functional engineering Teams; assists with / troubleshoots systems-related issues and maintenance
• Collaborates on maintaining services once they are live; measures / monitors availability, latency, and overall system health
• Coordinates with technical / non-technical Partners and clients to determine business requirements
• Practices sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems
• Documents / promotes H-E-B standards and procedures

What is your background?

• A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience involving software / systems engineering
• 4+ years of experience p rogramming in at least one of the following languages: Python, Java, Go, Rust and building and maintaining systems that support the life cycle of services
• Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems

Do you have what it takes to be a fit as an H-E-B SRE?

• Understanding of Unix / Linux operating systems
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical , problem-solving skills
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced technical environment with increasing support demands and complexity
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and assigned tasks to meet deadlines and objectives
• Ability to collaborate and openly share ideas with a team of like-minded professionals

Can you...

• Function in a fast-paced, retail, office environment
• Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
• Work extended hours; sit for extended periods ; work rotating and on-call schedules

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