The Senior Systems Engineer for the Application Security Engineering Team supports The Home Depot's security mission by installing and supporting tools for static analysis testing, dynamic analysis testing, and software composition analysis. As a member of the team you are required to have experience and knowledge about continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, SAST,  DAST and SCA tool configurations, and be able to prioritize risks. . In addition, Sr. Systems Engineers will be involved in routine upgrades and application support as well as 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.
        
        Environment:
        Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant condition
        
        Travel:
        Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.