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Publix Super Markets, Inc. is the largest privately-owned food retailer in the nation with more than 1,200 stores and more than 200,000 associates throughout the Southeast. We are associate-owned, proud of our family atmosphere, and consistently named as one of the best companies to work for in America. We are largely debt-free and renowned for our financial performance as well as our premier customer service. Publix s Information Services (I/S) department is located in Lakeland, Florida and Alpharetta, Georgia and employs over 1000 associates. I/S provides the information technology required for all Publix business units including retail stores and all office and warehouse environments. The Publix I/S mission is to maximize the value of information technology to Publix associates and customers.
The Publix Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) team is seeking an experienced Apache Kafka systems engineer to join it s other engineers in supporting the EAI toolset. EAI involves creating and maintaining the system infrastructure that allows Publix business systems to communicate via middleware such as message queueing, event streaming, file transfer, AS2, and other data transfer technologies. Examples of the tools implemented and supported by the Publix EAI team are IBM WebSphere MQ, Apache Kafka, Biztalk, Axway Synchrony Transfer (CFT), and Axway B2Bi. EAI engineers are expected to become fluent in all of these technologies and participate in troubleshooting and remediation as part of a 24/7 support rotation.
Systems Engineering involves defining, developing, maintaining, and advising on the effective use of information technologies to maximize their value to Publix. The EAI engineering staff is responsible for EAI tool installations and configurations, support and maintenance, security vulnerability remediations, and user assistance.
Some examples of systems engineering tasks include: