This position offers an exciting opportunity as a Systems Engineer – Senior within the Data Protection Operations team.  The initiative is a critical success factor to adapt to a rapidly changing technology environment and deliver the key program deliverables for space.  You will need self-starting abilities to conduct risk analysis, configuration changes, and policy tuning. You will be a key contributor to the optimization of advanced Data Protection security controls across a large enterprise.  To succeed you will need the ability to work with various cross-functional teams both within and outside of Cyber-Security.  You will also drive the continual improvement of the resiliency and function of current DLP capabilities.  A strong work ethic is required to deliver meaningful value in this role.  A strong partnership with the business will be key to delivering value and reducing data loss and risk to the organization. On a typical day, you can expect to provide level 3 support to the incident management team, provide investigation support to the SOC, drive the improvement of DLP processes and procedures through automation, discover sensitive data, conduct an analysis of data protection findings, provide remediation support, be a team player, bring fresh ideas and more.The Sr. Systems Engineer develops, maintains, and supports The Home Depot's technical infrastructure that includes network, hardware, database, and system software components.

The Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for collaborating with and enabling product teams with infrastructure. Sr. Systems Engineers are expected to leverage tooling and custom applications to monitor and optimize performance. In addition, Sr. Systems Engineers may be involved in routine upgrades and application support as well as the root cause and post-mortem analyses around security incidents and service interruptions.

As a Sr. Systems Engineer, you will be able to operate independently, though typically working as part of a team with varying skillsets.

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

10% - Planning & Analysis:

• Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities for improvements and new initiatives
• Drives the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific technology products and platforms to provide cost-effective solutions that meet business and technology requirements
• Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, and security architectures for products
• Proactively creates and maintains tools for monitoring and support
• Participates in project planning and reporting across multiple efforts30% - Delivery & Execution:
  
  • Drives configuration, debugging, and support for infrastructure
  • Drives field and corporate roll-outs of technology
  • Drives the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs50% - Support & Enablement:
    
    • Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure
    • Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams
    • Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate
    • Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions
    • Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability
    • Opens and manages vendor problem tickets to resolution
    • Drives the production of in-house documentation around solutions
    • Monitors tools and proactively helps teams struggling with systems issues
    • Provides application support for software running in production
    • Creates scripts and tools that drive automation and enable product teams and end users to move towards self service10% - Learning:
      
      • Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure
      • Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice)
      • Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizationsNATURE AND SCOPE
        Typically reports to the Systems Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager.
        
        ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
        Environment:
        Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant condition
        
        Travel:
        Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.