Sr. Systems Engineer

Advance Auto Parts, Inc.

$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • At least 1 year leading Edge computing platform technology teams
  • 7+ years in Infrastructure and Software Engineering
  • Proficiency in Windows PowerShell scripting and API programming
  • Deep understanding of Microsoft Windows Server
  • Experience with Active Directory, Group Policy, and PKI
  • Familiarity with virtualization technologies like VMWare and Nutanix

Responsibilities

  • Perform systems administration tasks to ensure infrastructure stability
  • Monitor, upgrade, and troubleshoot Edge computing platforms
  • Create and coordinate systems involving clients, servers, and databases
  • Manage incidents and improve service development for store systems
  • Automate maintenance activities and document operational tasks
  • Participate in on-call rotation for 24x7 support as needed
  • Communicate technical requirements and risks across various stakeholder levels

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Edge computing initiatives
  • Empowerment to lead infrastructure design and standards
  • Easy access to corporate headquarters in a prime location
  • Potential for career growth and skill development in a tech-focused organization
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Senior Systems Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Platform Engineering will help design, engineer and support our infrastructure environment as we re-platform our traditional application stack to one that is modern and Edge computing infrastructure platform. You will be empowered to innovate and lead the definition of the Edge computing infrastructure standards, automation, and processes that will enable product teams to release features anytime in a secure and agile manner. To accomplish our goals the successful candidate will act as a SME for our Edge infrastructure, security and application development teams on Edge computing architecture and principles for continuous delivery in the Edge.

This position is 4 days in office, 1 day remote per week, based at our corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina (North Hills)

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • Perform basic and advanced Systems Administration tasks.


  • Monitor and maintain Edge computing platform. Perform upgrades and troubleshooting.


  • Participate in the creation of entire Systems (Clients, Server Hardware, network, and databases).


  • Participate and coordinate activities for incident management, service development, service transition, and continual service improvement of store systems infrastructure services.


  • Automate the maintenance activities, document and operationalize the tasks and transition to operations team.


  • Participate in an On-Call 24x7 rotation, or weekend work along with other Team Member Engineers.


  • Interpret technical requirements into business requirements and communicate risks to relevant stakeholders ranging from business leaders to engineers.


  • Provide succinct diagrams such as high-level design and low-level design documents and workflows and able to present to senior leadership as well as technical teams.


  • Work through the project life cycle from design, implementation, cutover, hyper care and operation transition.


  • Participate in problem solving, troubleshooting and level 3 engineering support of infrastructure and applications as needed.


Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of relevant education, training and experience


  • Minimum of 1 year of experience leading technology teams supporting Edge computing platform such as Scale computing hypercore.


  • Experience with Windows Power shell scripting and API based programing.


  • 7+ years in Infrastructure and Software Engineering.


  • Experience with the IAC (Infrastructure as Code) implementation and automation


  • Deep understanding of Microsoft Windows Server experience is required.


  • Working experience with forest/multi domain Active Directory and GPO.


  • Working experience with DNS, Group Policy and PKI.


  • Working experience and expertise with SCCM and InTune.


  • Experience with platform upgrades.


  • Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare, Nutanix, KVM is needed.


  • Experience with Systems Infrastructure engineering in a large, distributed environment.


  • Experience with Windows server 2012 - 2025 and client operating systems.


  • Strong troubleshooting skills a must.


  • Strong analytical and communication skills.


  • Excellent communication, presentation, architectural articulation and leadership skills.


  • Experience leading and working with diverse geographically distributed teams.


  • Be able to work with teams with varying levels of technical levels and experiences


Preferred Certifications:

Windows Server

Azure and or any other cloud fundamentals

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