[Hiring] Principal Systems Engineer, Major Incident Manager @The Home Depot

Role Description

The Principal, Systems Engineering, guides the development, maintenance, and support of The Home Depot's technical infrastructure that includes network, hardware, database, and system software components. They have an in-depth understanding of the technology landscape and act as the face of the Systems Engineering group to other areas of the organization. In addition, they provide technical guidance to more junior Systems Engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• 40% Strategy & Planning:
  • Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities for improvements and new initiatives.
  • Leads the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific technology products and platforms to provide cost-effective solutions that meet business and technology requirements.
  • Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, and security architectures for products.
  • Guides the proactive creation and maintenance of tools for monitoring and support.
  • Leads project budgeting, planning, and management across multiple efforts and teams.
  • Develops and delivers formal training courses.
  • Visits with operational units (e.g., warehouses, stores, data centers) to understand needs and build relationships.
• 20% Delivery & Execution:
  • Guides configuration, debugging, and support for infrastructure.
  • Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met.
  • Guides field and corporate roll-outs of technology.
  • Guides the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs.
  • Creates and optimizes specifications for complex technology solutions.
  • Produces and manages purchase requests for hardware and software.
  • Creates technical white papers and thought leadership.
  • Creates and enforces process standards.
  • Leads disaster recovery planning and engineering efforts.
  • Collaborates with other leaders to drive build versus buy decisions with regard to technology.
• 30% Support & Enablement:
  • Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure.
  • Guides 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.
  • Guides root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions.
  • Guides maintenance, upgrades, and support for existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability.
  • Acts as a vendor relationship manager.
  • Guides the production of in-house documentation around solutions.
  • Monitors tools and proactively helps teams struggling with systems issues.
  • Provides application support for software running in production.
  • Guides the creation of scripts and tools that drive automation and enable product teams and end users to move towards self service.
  • Acts as a mentor to more junior Systems Engineers.
• 10% Learning:
  • Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impact 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).
  • Leads learning efforts inside the organization focused on systems engineering.
  • Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of relevant work experience.
• Professional experience in all areas of Systems Engineering - Infrastructure, Network, Database, and Security; proficiency in at least 2 areas and mastery of at least 1.
• Mastery of working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern engineering team.
• Proficiency in infrastructure, network, database, or security troubleshooting and remediation; experience with at least one other.
• Proficiency in installing and upgrading applications or databases and performing system maintenance.
• Proficiency in networking, system and hardware design and architecture, DBMS concepts, SQL programming, and client server concepts.
• Mastery of debuggers, runtime analysis, library systems, compiled programming, and software update tools.
• Mastery of complex system and environment analysis, design, and optimization.
• Experience with system and software deployment automation.
• Proficiency in object oriented programming languages (preferably Java), distributed computing environments, and code reviews.
• Experience with middleware design and development.
• Proficiency in system security design and management.
• Proficiency in disaster recovery planning and engineering.
• Proficiency in monitoring the operational status and performance of, and configuring as well as tuning, systems, networks, or databases.
• Proficiency in operating system commands and utilities as well as scripting.
• Proficiency in working with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure.
• Proficiency in supporting a 24x7 retail operation.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• The pay range for this position is between $100,000.00 - $240,000.00 for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents.