Senior Principal Engineer – Core Infrastructure

About the job

Key Responsibilities:Minimum Qualifications:Preferred Qualifications:

• While this is a remote role, the candidate must live within a commutable distance of Richfield, MN, Boston, MA, Atlanta, GA or Seattle, WA. Best Buy is one of the largest multi-channel consumer electronics retailers in the world with technology at its center. While most see Best Buy as a brick-and-mortar retailer, we have a rich legacy of using technology to drive outcomes benefitting our customers. Our team of over 5,000 engineers in Digital and Technology fuels growth and spurs innovation on our journey to create exceptional experiences for our customers. At Best Buy, our Senior Principal Engineers tackle the toughest, most challenging, and often cutting-edge technical opportunities. People in these roles are important to our success, experts in their field, sought after by peers across the Digital and Technology teams and business colleagues. As a Senior Principal Engineer Core Infrastructure, you will be aligned with teams focused on Storage, Network Connectivity and Security, and Data Centers and will be considered a technical expert across these different areas. You will focus on building solutions as we transform into a cloud, dev/ops-based organization as well as other highly visible initiatives to the organization. This person will act as a technical leader across these domains building our integration, automation, and dev/ops strategy. We embrace a culture of rapid experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, agile environmentone that encourages diversity of thought and a passion for mentoring others. We welcome your industry experience and outside perspectives as we transform to a more digitally focused company. What you will do as a Senior Principal Engineer Core Infrastructure:
• Lead broad and highly visible efforts across the company for all business units.
• Set technical direction for connectivity integration, automation and dev-ops across the core infrastructure squads (Data Center, Remote Site, Security and Carrier, Capacity, Process).
• Demonstrate deep and broad knowledge of current and emerging technologies that affect the business across storage, security, network, and automation technologies.
• Identify strategic technology growth opportunities that enable Best Buy to grow as a business.
• Plan and lead the implementation of major organization-wide redesign, refactor, and optimization efforts.
• Demonstrate creativity and initiative in solving complex problems.
• Act as a technical or process leader across multiple teams and/or projects. They will be a leader and/or major contributor in the delivery of complex solutions.
• Develop and communicate multi-year technical strategy and lead in identifying further strategic areas for development.
• Act as a mentor and educator to peers as well as external teams. Engineers at this level are often invited as a speaker to industry events and may be a published author on relevant technical topics.
• Design and own large enterprise platforms/products roadmaps from start to finish.
• Design and configures large scale systems, automation and/or integrations.
• Keep up with industry trends and be an advocate for the standards.
• Create and improve internal tools and practices
• Take responsibility in ensuring team’s high work quality.
• Teach best practices and context internally and externally.
• Continually expand knowledge and understanding of core concepts of infrastructure engineering in all forms.
• Define and drive technology strategy.
• Understand retail industry, advocates, and understands the business.
• Communicate effectively both verbally and written with various business partners, internal stakeholders, suppliers, c-level, and engineering audiences.
• Ensure stakeholder continuity.
• 9 or more years of relevant experience with a bachelors degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Bachelors degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or related field OR equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 5 or more years of experience in a complex global enterprise.
• 5 or more years leading automation efforts with regards to data center, storage, and network connectivity service.
• 5 or more years of experience in routing protocols, security services, storage, switching, voice, internet and global load balancing in on-premise data centers, colocation facilities and/or cloud hosted.
• 2 or more years leading teams with an agile methodology framework.
• 2 or more years of experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), or AWS.
• 11 or more years of experience working within matrix environments, demonstrating the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Industry certifications, including deep and broad AWS.
• Proven experience leading large enterprise installation and upgrade projects.
• Experience transitioning from physical data centers to AWS cloud-based services.
• Application development, devops, product and architecture experience.
• Management experience leading technology and process teams.
• Experience driving automation efforts.
• Experience managing different types of enterprise storage in the petabytes.
• Experience in heavy real-time and streaming industries.
• Experience in voice/data converged environments and with call center solutions.
• Experience working in PCI, SOX, HIPPA and High-Trust regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of digital platforms, how theyre delivered and supported.
• Ability to translate complex business problems into technology solutions.
• Ability to communicate with diverse audiences from c-level to engineers, vendors, and service providers.
• Financial acumen and experience developing business cases for technology solutions and transformations.
• Adept with modern development and engineering tools.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex projects with multiple stakeholders.