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O'Reilly Auto Parts · 2 weeks ago

Principal System Engineer - Cloud

North Carolina, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $165K/yr

10+ years exp

O'Reilly Auto Parts is a company with a strong promote-from-within philosophy, encouraging career growth. They are seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead the evolution of cloud-native platforms and enterprise infrastructure, utilizing expert-level knowledge of cloud architecture and systems design.

AutomotiveManufacturingRetailWholesale

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Maintain expert-level knowledge of emerging GCP services, infrastructure design patterns, automation tooling, and site reliability engineering practices

Provide architectural guidance and technical mentorship to engineers across infrastructure, DevOps, and platform teams

Collaborate with Cloud Architects and Engineering Leadership to define standards for GCP resource hierarchy, networking, security, and cost optimization

Lead the design, deployment, and automation of scalable, resilient infrastructure on GCP, using tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE), and Cloud Build

Guide enterprise-wide initiatives focused on infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, and zero-downtime operations

Implement best-in-class monitoring, logging, and observability practices using Stackdriver, Prometheus, and third-party integrations

Conduct design reviews, evaluate new services, and ensure infrastructure solutions align with performance, security, and compliance requirements

Lead incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-impacting events, driving long-term stability improvements

Define and enforce GCP IAM policies, network segmentation, org policies, and workload identity federation strategies

Work closely with application and data engineering teams to optimize cloud deployments, container orchestration, and API gateways

Own the infrastructure-as-code lifecycle, enabling consistent, version-controlled deployments across environments

Contribute to technical roadmaps, budgeting forecasts, and capacity planning processes

Document architectural decisions, cloud resource inventories, and runbooks for critical platform services

Champion cloud-native best practices, DevSecOps principles, and efficient operational processes

Qualification

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Infrastructure designAutomation frameworksDistributed systemsTerraformKubernetes (GKE)CI/CD pipelinesLinux systems engineeringNetworkingDevOps practicesScripting PythonScripting BashScripting GoGCP certificationsEffective communication

Required

Expert-level infrastructure, cloud architecture, and systems design knowledge

Deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Experience with automation frameworks and highly available distributed systems

Expert-level knowledge of emerging GCP services, infrastructure design patterns, automation tooling, and site reliability engineering practices

Architectural guidance and technical mentorship to engineers across infrastructure, DevOps, and platform teams

Collaboration with Cloud Architects and Engineering Leadership to define standards for GCP resource hierarchy, networking, security, and cost optimization

Design, deployment, and automation of scalable, resilient infrastructure on GCP using tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE), and Cloud Build

Guidance on enterprise-wide initiatives focused on infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, and zero-downtime operations

Implementation of best-in-class monitoring, logging, and observability practices using Stackdriver, Prometheus, and third-party integrations

Conducting design reviews, evaluating new services, and ensuring infrastructure solutions align with performance, security, and compliance requirements

Leading incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-impacting events

Defining and enforcing GCP IAM policies, network segmentation, org policies, and workload identity federation strategies

Collaboration with application and data engineering teams to optimize cloud deployments, container orchestration, and API gateways

Ownership of the infrastructure-as-code lifecycle, enabling consistent, version-controlled deployments across environments

Contribution to technical roadmaps, budgeting forecasts, and capacity planning processes

Documentation of architectural decisions, cloud resource inventories, and runbooks for critical platform services

Championing cloud-native best practices, DevSecOps principles, and efficient operational processes

Preferred

10+ years of infrastructure or systems engineering experience, with 3+ years in a Principal or Lead role

Proven hands-on expertise with GCP core services including VPC, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, IAM, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery

Deep understanding of Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins), and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Experience designing and supporting resilient, high-throughput distributed systems

Strong background in Linux systems engineering, networking, and scripting (Python, Bash, or Go)

Familiarity with DevOps and SRE practices including monitoring, SLOs/SLIs, chaos testing, and auto-remediation

Experience with multi-region, hybrid cloud, or enterprise-wide cloud migration strategies

Effective communicator with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior leadership

Relevant GCP certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect, Professional DevOps Engineer) strongly preferred

Benefits

Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off

Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance with Optional Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs

Tuition Educational Assistance Programs

Opportunities for Career Growth

Company

O'Reilly Auto Parts

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O’Reilly Auto parts is a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories.

Founded in 1957

Springfield, Missouri, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.oreillyauto.com/

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