Senior Systems Engineer (Remote)

Position Purpose

The Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for independently developing, maintaining, and supporting The Home Depot's technical infrastructure of hardware and system software that drives the success of Home Depot and our customers. As a Systems Engineer II, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production infrastructure. In addition, Sr. Systems Engineers may be involved in routine upgrades and application support as well as root cause and post-mortem analyses around security incidents and service interruptions.

Key Responsibilities

• 35% Support & Enablement - Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure; Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams; Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate; Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions; Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability; Opens and manages vendor problem tickets to resolution; Drives the production of in-house documentation around solutions; Provides application support for software running in production; Drives moving KB articles to infrastructure as code models; Drives keeping monitoring/alerting up to date
• 15% Learning - Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure; Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice); Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• 30% Delivery & Execution - Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure; Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice); Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• 20% Planning & Analysis - Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities for improvements and new initiatives; Drives the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific technology to provide cost-effective solutions that meet THD requirements; Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, cloud, AI, and security architectures for products; Proactively creates and maintains tools for monitoring and support; Participates in project planning and reporting across multiple efforts

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position has 0 Direct Reports
• This position typically reports to Systems Engineer Manager or Sr Manager

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with version control systems
• Experience supporting a 24x7 retail operation
• Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Professional or educational experience as an Information Technology Engineer.
• Experience with production system designs including Infrastructure as Code, High Availability, and Performance monitoring
• Experience in troubleshooting and remediation within multiple Information technology disciplines
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure
• Experience with CI/CD toolchain
• Experience working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern engineering team
• 1+ year of previous leadership experience
• Familiarity with system and environment analysis, design, and optimization
• Experience installing and upgrading applications or databases and performing system maintenance
• Experience monitoring the operational status and performance of, and configuring as well as tuning, systems, networks, or databases
• Familiarity with debuggers, runtime analysis, library systems, compiled programming, and software update tools
• Experience with operating system commands and utilities as well as scripting

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 4

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Nimble Learning
• Situational Adaptability
• Cultivates Innovation
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Action Oriented
• Self-Development
• Global Perspective
• Communicates Effectively
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Manages Ambiguity
• Being Resilient
• Interpersonal Savvy