Principal Platform Engineer (Google Cloud)

O'Reilly Auto Parts • Headquarters, KY

23h • Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Platform Engineer is a seasoned and technical leader who will create and redesign broad technical infrastructure and information systems that define how servers, networks, and storage systems work together to support the needs of the organization. This role involves documenting current-state architecture, designing ideal-state architecture, and developing plans and solutions to deploy new solutions that meet emerging business needs. The engineer will ensure stability and scalability, anticipating capacity growth through careful planning and awareness of trends. Additionally, the role includes developing teams and engineers within the organization, setting project deadlines, and improving engineering processes and technologies. Specific experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is required. This position is located in Springfield, MO.

Requirements

• Determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making.
• Understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business.
• Express user needs in terms of business requirements, identify current capability of the business to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach.
• Develop an effective change strategy based on gap analyses and enterprise readiness assessment results, including transitions states and release plans.
• Conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy.
• Design, execute and report on systems/service tests to ensure that an application functions as specified in the requirements.
• Interpret, contribute to, or lead business case creation with client departments to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.
• Create reports, and review reports created by others, for various audiences as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of reports.
• Review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Develop and execute architectures, policies and practices in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization.
• Work directly with Architecture in developing an enterprise readiness assessment to determine the organization's readiness for change.
• Adopt solutions to automate and manage multiple applications and functions within an organization.
• Manage and administer various infrastructure components such as compute, storage, cloud, network, observability and tooling/automation.
• Proficiently navigate and manage private and public cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual machines, networks, storage, and services.
• Experience with Infrastructure Automation technologies, such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
• Scripting and/or programming experience with languages such as Bash, Powershell, or Python.
• Ability to delegate, providing resources clear and concise communication enabling the successful completion of tasks, including the ability to right clear success criteria or “definition of done”.
• Directly contribute to quarterly and yearly platform roadmapping exercises.
• Master's Degree or Equivalent Level of Experience.
• Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job-related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (6 years to 12 years).
• Experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (2 years to 5 years).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with managing containerized infrastructure, such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Cloud Run.
• Experience designing and deploying cloud platforms.
• Experience in developing Enterprise standards supporting global workloads across private and public cloud providers.
• Experience with cloud cost management, utilizing reporting tools and planning tools, to ensure the effective use of resources and cost estimation activities with Application Development teams.

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met.
• Drive advances in technologies and architectures to increase the value delivered by technology and digital capabilities, either through improvements to the efficiency of the technology environment or through those that reduce the total cost of technology operations.
• Recommend and participate in activities related to the design, development, and maintenance of the digital capabilities within the enterprise architecture.
• Create/manage project storyboards/viewpoints that articulate project requirements and lead to successful implementation of work.
• Elicit complex project requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
• Document complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required.
• Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
• Support Information Security in detecting and analyzing security incidents, including attacks, breaches, and identified vulnerabilities, and remediate any security gaps in line with the security incident management procedure.
• Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards.
• Monitor and review performance and behaviors within area of responsibility to identify and resolve noncompliance with the organization's standards, policies and relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct.
• Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the infrastructure platform to better meet users’ needs.
• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Develop straightforward business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.
• Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs.
• Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities.
• Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Design systems which provide fault isolation and resolution for complex challenges to limit and address issues promptly.
• Design and monitor the quality of system and component tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues.
• Contribute to the continued improvement of our Infrastructure Automation tooling and processes.
• Participate in after hours support, including applicable oncall responsibilities.
• Contribute to Knowledge Base articles and Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring routine tasks and problems are well documented.
• Participate in the onboarding and training of new team members.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal