Senior Platform Engineer – Google Cloud (GCP)

O'Reilly Auto Parts; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wages & PTO

401k with employer contributions

Medical/Dental/Vision

Wellbeing programs

Tuition assistance

Career growth

Job summary

O’Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead broad infrastructure initiatives across servers, networks, and storage, shaping current and future state architecture.

The role requires strong leadership, capacity planning, and expertise in cloud platforms, with a focus on GCP. Located in Springfield, MO, this position offers opportunities to steer digital transformation and optimize reliability and cost.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree or equivalent level of experience.
• Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job-related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (6 years to 12 years)
• Managerial experience: planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (2 years to 5 years)

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met.
• Drive advances in technologies and architectures to increase the value delivered by technology and digital capabilities, either through improvements to the efficiency of the technology environment or through those that reduce the total cost of technology operations.
• Create/manage project storyboards/viewpoints that articulate project requirements and lead to successful implementation of work.
• Elicit complex project 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.
• Document 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.
• Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• 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.
• 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.
• Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards. 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.
• Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the infrastructure platform to better meet users’ needs.
• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Develop straightforward business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.
• 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.
• 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.
• Contribute to the continued improvement of our Infrastructure Automation tooling and processes
• Participate in after hours support, including applicable oncall responsibilities
• Contribute to Knowledge Base articles and Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring routine tasks and problems are well documented
• Participate in the onboarding and training of new team members

Skills

Data analysis

Business context

Requirements gathering

Change management

Gap analysis

System testing

Business case

Reporting

Evaluation

Architecture

Enterprise readiness

Automation

Infrastructure management

Cloud platforms

Ansible/Puppet/Terraform

Scripting

Leadership

Roadmapping

Education

Master's Degree or equivalent level of experience

Tools

Ansible/Puppet/Terraform

Job description

O’Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead broad infrastructure initiatives across servers, networks, and storage, shaping current and future state architecture.

The role requires strong leadership, capacity planning, and expertise in cloud platforms, with a focus on GCP. Located in Springfield, MO, this position offers opportunities to steer digital transformation and optimize reliability and cost.