Senior Systems Engineer

The Home Depot

. Independently develop, maintain, and support The Home Depot's technical infrastructure of hardware and system software .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • United StatesSenior💰 $80,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates deep technical expertise in Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry, with a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code, operational troubleshooting, and high-availability platform architecture. Capable of collaborating within cross-functional teams to support and optimize production infrastructure and applications.

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Red Hat OpenShiftKubernetesCloud FoundryAnsibleCI/CD Toolchain

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Hard Skills

Infrastructure-As-CodeOperational TroubleshootingHigh-Availability ArchitectureMonitoring and Tuning SystemsProduction System DesignDatabase Installation and UpgradingScriptingSystem MaintenanceCloud PlatformsVersion Control Systems

Soft Skills

Collaborative TeamworkProblem SolvingLeadership Experience

Tools & Technologies

PrometheusGrafanaFluentbitArgoCDFlux

Industry Keywords

Site Reliability Engineering24x7 Retail OperationInformation Technology DisciplinesBehavioral Data AnalysisCost-Effective Technology Solutions

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAzureCloudFluxGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesOpenShiftPrometheusVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Independently develop, maintain, and support The Home Depot's technical infrastructure of hardware and system software
Create, deploy, and support production infrastructure
Participate in routine upgrades and application support
Conduct root cause and post-mortem analyses for security incidents and service interruptions
Keep current with innovations, industry trends, and internal system changes
Research business trends and behavioral data to identify improvement opportunities and initiatives
Evaluate, develop, and recommend cost-effective technology solutions
Research and design infrastructure, network, database, cloud, AI, and security architectures
Create and maintain monitoring and support tools
Participate in project planning and reporting
Collaborate with product and project teams to enable infrastructure support
Support technology architecture design reviews
Monitor and optimize applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security
Maintain, upgrade, and support systems and infrastructure
Manage vendor problem tickets to resolution
Produce in-house solution documentation
Provide application support for production software
Maintain infrastructure-as-code knowledge articles and monitoring/alerting

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be eighteen years of age or older
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a field related to the job
Minimum 4 years of work experience
Qualified candidates will have, or be expected to obtain, deep technical expertise in Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry / VMware Tanzu Application Services (TAS)
Experience with Ansible, ArgoCD, and Flux for platform automation and GitOps deployment workflows
Experience implementing and fine-tuning Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluentbit
Strong experience in high-availability platform architecture, infrastructure-as-code, operational troubleshooting, and enterprise supply chain service resiliency
Rotational on-call required
Experience working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern engineering team
Experience troubleshooting and remediation within multiple Information technology disciplines
Experience installing and upgrading applications or databases and performing system maintenance
Familiarity with system and environment analysis, design, and optimization
Familiarity with debuggers, runtime analysis, library systems, compiled programming, and software update tools
Experience monitoring, configuring, and tuning systems, networks, or databases
Experience with operating system commands, utilities, and scripting
Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure
Experience supporting a 24x7 retail operation
Experience with version control systems
Experience with CI/CD toolchain
Experience with production system designs including Infrastructure as Code, High Availability, and Performance monitoring
Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
1+ year of previous leadership experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote/Virtual work arrangement
No travel required
Opportunity to build and grow technical and leadership skills
Learning activities, communities of practice, articles, tutorials, and videos for professional development