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Advance Auto Parts · 6 hours ago

Principal Systems Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Raleigh, NC

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Advance Auto Parts is seeking a Principal Engineer for their Cloud Infrastructure Platform Engineering team. This role involves designing and supporting cloud infrastructure, leading cloud strategy, and collaborating with various teams to enhance DevOps processes and tools.

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Responsibilities

Responsible for developing cloud infrastructure strategy and architecture

Experience with establishing cloud strategy and architecture at an enterprise level

Experience leading large-scale Google Cloud Platform (GCP) migrations and GCP project delivery, i.e., responsible for specific project deliverables, technical and architecture oversight, project delivery approach, delivery performance - working with delivery and PM teams

Provide subject matter expertise on cloud architecture and cloud infrastructure engineering to other IT and business teams

Collaborates with various teams across the organizations including Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering and Infrastructure to operationalize DevOps processes and tools

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 with Reliability Engineering teams to implement cloud-specific monitoring tools

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

Design, implement and manage Container platform (Such as GKE/ OpenShift) in cloud

Experience with Multi Cloud Technologies (Azure/ AWS/ GCP etc)

Qualification

Cloud Infrastructure StrategyGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Infrastructure as Code (IAC)CI/CD PracticesDocker/KubernetesTerraform/AnsibleNetworking ConceptsTroubleshooting SkillsAnalytical SkillsCommunication SkillsLeadership Skills

Required

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

Minimum of 5 years of experience leading technology teams supporting cloud infrastructure and platforms

8+ years in Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineering

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

Deep understanding of GCP (Preferred), Azure and/or AWS experience is required

Strong knowledge of various aspects of CI/CD practices: Infrastructure Automation

Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes for managing container-based images, their deployment via Kubernetes based services, DNS/DDI, networking management

Knowledge and experience of Kubernetes in GCP is desired

Knowledge and experience of Terraform/Ansible, GIT based products (GitHub, Bitbucket), Jenkins, etc., for building pipeline

Experience with network design including segmentation, logging and monitoring

Experience with network topologies, load balancing and micro segmentation

Experience with firewalls, WAF's, proxies, IDS/IPS, network authentication controls

Experience with Networking concepts (NAT, DNS, routing, etc.)

Understanding of cloud security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems

Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as New Relic, Logstash, CloudTrail

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