SR WEB ENGINEER

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POSITION PURPOSE -
The Home Depot is the leading retailer in home improvement across all channels - stores, online, and mobile. Online technology is a strategic investment area for the company and the driving force behind our interconnected retail strategy. We are looking for highly qualified technical leaders and innovators to help grow one of the largest, fastest-growing ecommerce web sites in the world.

As Senior Web Operations Engineer you will be responsible for building and supporting the application infrastructure of one of the largest eCommerce sites in the world. This will require you to maintain high site uptime while embracing rapid change and growth using a strong devops mindset of continuous delivery and site automation. This is a demanding role that requires deep technical knowledge, adaptability, hands on execution, and a ruthless drive towards higher levels of availability.

In this role

• You will have a maniacal focus on site uptime
• Engineer application infrastructure that is reliable, efficient, and maintainable
• Partner closely with software engineering teams using a strong devops mindset
• Constantly improve operational processes and efficiency
• Automate, Automate, Automate
  
  MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES -
• Act as a subject matter expert for troubleshooting and resolving complex, multi-tier web problems that span a number of different platforms
• Automate production operations processes
• Automate continuous integration and deployment processes
• Deliver infrastructure requests for software projects on time
• Implement application performance monitoring to ensure site uptime and performance
• Define, measure, and meet key operational metrics including site performance, incidents and chronic problems, site traffic and conversion, etc
• Participate in a 24x7x365 support rotation for a website that never sleeps
  
  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS -
• 5+ years' experience building and supporting large-scale, business critical systems
• Expert knowledge of at least one web application platform: WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, NginX, Varnish, Endeca,
• Expert knowledge of Application Performance Monitoring tools: Dynatrace, Splunk, Gomez, Coradiant, and Tealeaf
• Experience with continuous integration platforms such as Jenkins
• Experience with infrastructure configuration management tools such as Puppet and Chef
• Mastery of at least one scripting language including Python, PERL, Ruby, Shell
• Unix/Linux power user
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  
  YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE - 5+
  
  NATURE AND SCOPE -
• Position reports to IT Manager
• No direct reports
  
  KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES -
• Strong interpersonal skills, written and verbal communication
• Strong decision-making, problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and testing skills
• Exceptional analytical aptitude and attention to detail
• Ability to self-manage assigned tasks and projects
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction

EDUCATION REQUIRED -
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS -

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not
  objectionable.
  
  TRAVEL -
• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
  
  MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS -
  Must be eighteen years of age or older.
  Must pass the Drug Test.
  Must successfully complete any required training or orientation courses.
  
  PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS -
  Frequent periods are spent standing or sitting in the same location with some opportunity to move about; occasionally there may be a need to stoop or lift light objects (typically less than 8 pounds).