Safeway Inc., a Fortune 100 Company, is one of the largest food and drug
retailers in North America with 1,700+ stores. The Safeway family of brands
includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a
growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity,
spirit and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.
and Canada.


Diversity is fundamental at Safeway. We foster an inclusive working
environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee
is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful
relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible
through the diversity of our people. And a diverse workforce leads to
better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and
respect.

The Open Systems Release Engineer is highly technical and requires a
thorough understanding of Safeway’s UNIX Operating Infrastructure.
Possesses deep technical knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and
has broad knowledge in multiple related technologies including application
platforms, database platforms and middleware messaging systems. Analyzes
and identifies system and application variables which do not conform to
industry best-practice and can utilize tools to identify differences
between operating environments. Can work independently and lead teams with
multi-disciplinary makeup.

The Open Systems Release Engineer uses innovative problem-solving
approaches to proactively tackle a broad range of problems and develops
appropriate recommendations to implement permanent solutions. Able to guide
others in adaptive problem solving. Provides input on new/updates to
practice and policies. Notifies appropriate individuals as decisions are
made. Discusses and presents information and issues within IT, the business
and externally across the company. Able to communicate with customers and
business partners and influence others to build consensus and achieve
customer objectives. Able to interface with business staff in business
terms.

The Open Systems Release Engineer is also responsible for ensuring
environment continuity by reviewing all changes implemented into the RHEL
environment to validate overall impact on the computing system or
application.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Perform regular comparisons of production systems against non-production
systems using both manual and systematic approaches.
• Monitor all change implemented for impact analysis.
• Identify and communication deviation of configurations against best
practice.
• Identifies opportunities for better monitoring.
• Work with the systems administrators for change implementation.
• Maintain a common documentation library of standardized procedures and
configurations (RunBooks).
• Cultivate, support, and promote an organizational culture that provides
for high performance, high morale, integrity, and teamwork.
• Work with business representatives, IT Management, IT development,
support teams and vendors to ensure on time, on budget, and quality
delivery of technical solutions that support the strategic direction of the
business and IT.
• Collaborate across Operations and Implementation teams to determine best
solutions for support.

Qualifications:
• Minimum 5-10 years experience with extensive RHEL systems administration.
• Minimum 5 years experience with monitoring tools such as Patrol, Fluke,
Splunk.
• Minimum 3 years experience with environment management or release
management tools such as OEM, HP Automation.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the retail industry preferred.
• B.S. in a technical field, Computer Science preferred.
• Minimum 5 years experience with Enterprise products of which 5+ years
experience engineering or supporting system solutions including integration
and deployment of databases, volume managers, clustering software,
scheduling software, messaging software, application tier software.
Additional experience with ITIL, RUP, MS Project, Visio, MS Office.
• Shell scripting ability in PERL and/or JAVA is required.
• Strong Experience in server-side technologies, database integration,
Application Platforms such as Websphere or Weblogic, Messaging systems such
as IBM MQ, Oracle ODI, as well as various monitoring solutions.
• Strong ability to document completely and accurately at all levels of
solution development and implementation, following procedural steps, as
directed, to assure compliance with Federal guidelines, policies, and laws,
including those that drive Sarbanes Oxley and internal Safeway policies.
• Strong understanding of Service Desk, Incident Management, Problem
Management, Change Management, Configuration Management and Computer
Operations IT disciplines absolutely preferred.
• Results oriented, willing to take responsibility and accept
accountability for action.
• Genuine desire to provide superior customer service.
• Comfortable with ambiguity as needs change on a regular basis.
• High degree of initiative and sense of urgency.
• Ability to work on multiple, simultaneous initiatives of which he/she
will apply their applicable business, technical and system functionality
background.

Respond to: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by
visiting www.CareersAtSafeway.com.


AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER


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