Tractor Supply Company · 1 day ago
Principal Network Engineer
Brentwood, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expTractor Supply Company is a leading retailer in the agricultural and pet supply sector, and they are seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead the development and delivery of infrastructure services and automation. This role involves providing technical leadership, designing maintainable solutions, and coaching team members in a DevOps environment to support enterprise operations.
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Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership to TSC’s Systems Infrastructure strategy to enable greater agility with fulfillment of Infrastructure services including working with other teams to enable end to end CI/CD pipelines
Design maintainable solutions to meet business and compliance requirements through code development using SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) methodology to ensure consistency, maintainability, and compliance
Identify and implement ongoing opportunities for system and process improvements
Maintain domain development standards complying with enterprise standards, ensuring solutions are optimally designed, secure, well performing and integrated with other solutions
Evaluate emerging technology for use across technical domains for delivering Infrastructure services
Develop technology transformation roadmaps and action plans to continually evolve and improve the technology estate
Subject Matter Expert in the discipline of Infrastructure automation and development
Document internal SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), processes, and training to ensure team members are successful in DevOps environment
Provide technical leadership and coaching of team members in DevOps transition journey
Qualification
Required
10+ years related work experience of increasingly technical Information Technology experience
5+ years related work experience in DevOps utilizing SDLC agile methodology with various programming languages
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field preferred
Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered
DevOps in Public and Private Cloud Environments
Programming / Scripting Languages (e.g., Bash, KSH, PowerShell, PowerCLI, Perl, Python)
Declarative Configuration Languages (Ansible, Terraform)
Data Transfer Formats (JSON, YAML)
Infrastructure Configuration/Automation (Ansible Tower, Terraform Enterprise, Puppet)
Cloud services (Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Bluemix)
Container Platform services (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker)
CI/CD Pipeline & Repository tools (Bamboo, BitBucket, GitHub, Jenkins)
Microsoft and Linux based Operating Systems
Hyper-converged infrastructure systems (Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix AHV, Rancher Harvester, VMWare VxRail)
Preferred
Microsoft and Red Hat DevOps Certifications
Train in and independently create robust, scalable, and high-quality automation solutions for Infrastructure as code (IaC) software development
Develop, train and drive DevOps engineering practices across technical domains
Advanced knowledge of networking, server, and storage technologies and environments
Ability to comprehend business requirements to ensure technical directions are supportive
Advanced ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of innovative technologies
Excellent Analytical and Problem-solving skills
Strong knowledge of business process re-engineering from lean principles to agile processes
Strong knowledge of open telemetry observability frameworks, pipelines, and publish/subscribe models
Ability to estimate the budgetary impact of technical architecture alternatives
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Company-paid life and disability insurance
Paid parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Family planning resources such as adoption and surrogacy assistance
Company
Tractor Supply Company
Tractor Supply Company is the operator of rural lifestyle retail stores.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
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Leadership Team
Hal Lawton
President & CEO
Rob Mills
SVP & CIO
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