Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Enterprise Systems & Automation

Grainger; Lake Forest (IL); Remote; USD 88,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Grainger is seeking a role to implement, configure, develop, maintain and optimize enterprise-grade software platforms that enable Grainger's core business processes (i.e. Contracts, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance and HR).

You will understand the core business processes enabled by these tools and can translate business requirements to the most optimal, performant, reliable, scalable and secure solution that meets the need.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years designing, configuring, developing, and supporting enterprise business systems and applications.
• Experience implementing and engineering Microsoft 365 solutions, including Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, AI/Copilot automation, Microsoft Graph API scripting, and email and mail flow administration.
• Experience translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions and applying engineering principles to improve reliability, security, and performance.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation, solution designs, and operational procedures.
• Knowledge of enterprise integrations, APIs, automation, and data exchange concepts.
• Experience embedding data analytics capabilities and understanding key business data models.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, develop, deploy, optimize, monitor, and continuously improve business systems and applications while demonstrating a clear understanding of business processes and operational impact.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical solutions and detailed specifications that are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with engineering standards.
• Contribute to capability roadmaps, technology research, and continuous improvement initiatives by evaluating emerging technologies and recommending practical solutions.
• Serve as a technical resource within the team's functional domain by defining non-functional requirements including security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and supportability.
• Partner with operational and administration teams to improve service reliability, system health, monitoring, observability, and operational best practices while identifying technical debt and opportunities to reduce waste.
• Develop sustainable feedback loops that improve system performance, supportability, and engineering efficiency through monitoring, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including solution designs, testing approaches, operational procedures, and system documentation to support knowledge sharing and long-term maintainability.
• Support enterprise integrations and automation capabilities using appropriate APIs, connectors, and platform capabilities where applicable.
• Evaluate current business processes, systems, and applications to identify opportunities that improve efficiency, quality, scalability, and customer outcomes.
• Participate in production support, change management, and deployment activities while promoting operational excellence and engineering best practices.
• Coach, mentor, and provide technical guidance to junior engineers while fostering a collaborative engineering culture.

Skills

Systems design

Microsoft 365 solutions

APIs and integrations

Technical documentation

Data analytics concepts

Stakeholder management

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Power Platform

SharePoint

MS Graph API

Teams

Automation (AI Copilot)

Job description

Grainger is seeking a role to implement, configure, develop, maintain and optimize enterprise-grade software platforms that enable Grainger's core business processes (i.e. Contracts, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance and HR).

You will understand the core business processes enabled by these tools and can translate business requirements to the most optimal, performant, reliable, scalable and secure solution that meets the need.