<p>With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.</p><h3>Position Purpose:</h3><p>The Systems Engineering Sr. Manager attracts, retains, and develops top talent and inspires blended teams of systems and software engineers to deliver a stable, automated, and easy-to-consume connectivity infrastructure for The Home Depot. The role leads two connected mandates: automating the systems, processes, and device configurations that run the Networking organization; and designing, developing, and operating the Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic management platforms that connect applications across physical, virtual, on-prem, and cloud-based load balancers and proxies.</p><p>The Sr. Manager owns the end-to-end engineer experience of connecting applications — the GUIs, CLIs, and APIs engineers use, and the infrastructure beneath them — with a focus on a simple, low-friction "paved road" that makes applications easier to develop, deploy, and support. Applying Platform and Site Reliability Engineering practices, the role balances reliability, developer experience, operational toil, and cost efficiency.</p><p>As a strategic leader, the Sr. Manager drives innovation and growth, leads managers and teams through change and process improvement, and partners with stakeholders, product teams, and vendors. The role supports planning and funding reviews and communicates complex technical and business trade-offs across all levels of the organization.</p><h3>Key Responsibilities:</h3><ul> <li>20% Strategy &amp; Planning:</li> <li>Works and negotiates with partners on the staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams</li> <li>Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner</li> <li>Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that aligned to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives</li> <li>Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise</li> <li>Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams</li> <li>20% Delivery &amp; Execution:</li> <li>Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions</li> <li>Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met</li> <li>Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases</li> <li>Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms</li> <li>Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively</li> <li>Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment</li> <li>Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise</