O'Reilly Auto Parts · 17 hours ago
Sr Principal Platform Engineer
Colorado, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$128K/yr - $192K/yr
10+ years expO'Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Engineer to direct the development of crucial IT platforms and processes. This role involves mentoring engineers, overseeing infrastructure developments, and contributing to strategic IT decisions that align with the organization's long-term objectives.
RetailManufacturingAutomotiveWholesale
Responsibilities
Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met
Partner with Architecture to lead definition of architectural standards for all technology services and components (applications, data, integration, technology, security, business). Present business and IT leaders with signature-ready recommendations for adjusting policies and projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalize on relevant digital disruptions
Document the most 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
Elicit the most-complex business 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
Develop straightforward business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment
Directly 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. Lead retrospects to ensure appropriate hardening steps are taken across the infrastructure to further mitigate or eliminate any future occurrences
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
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
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
Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization
Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the infrastructure platform to better meet users’ needs
Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Experience with CI/CD tooling
Experience with managing containerized infrastructure, such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Cloud Run
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 road mapping exercises
Identify, as well as develop, training for engineering team
Education: Master's Degree or Equivalent Level of Experience
Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (10+ years)
Managerial Experience: Experience of planning, managing and organizing resources within short / medium timescales within the overall policy framework. (4+ years)
Preferred
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
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
O’Reilly Auto parts is a specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$500M2024-08-19Post Ipo Debt· $500M
1993-04-23IPO
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President
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