Senior Systems Engineer - Wireless & Wired Networking (Remote)

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Position Purpose

The Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for independently developing, maintaining, and supporting The Home Depot's technical infrastructure that drives the success of The Home Depot and our customers. This role focuses on the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of wireless and wired network infrastructure across Supply Chain environments, including warehouses and distribution centers, as well as corporate enterprise networks. The Sr. Systems Engineer works on complex, high-impact network initiatives and helps ensure the stability, performance, and scalability of network systems. This role also supports the analysis and resolution of complex network challenges while contributing to the continued development and support of production infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

This position typically reports to Systems Engineer Manager or Sr Manager