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Principal Systems Engineer

Advance Auto Business Support (300)
Raleigh, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 12/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/19/2026
Job Description Advance Auto Business Support LLC is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer at our Raleigh, North Carolina location. Job Description: Support a large-scale distributed infrastructure, provide technical leadership in problem-solving, maintenance, and project build situations. Formulate solutions for improvement and configure systems infrastructure remotely on a widely distributed network. Perform basic Systems Administration tasks. Research, evaluate, recommend, and implement information technology that aligns with business needs and meets objectives. Serve as a technical resource for support services, business partners, and customers. Lead the coordination of activities between multiple disciplines within IT and vendors on both technical and non-technical issues pertaining to computer system hardware and software, network infrastructure, peripheral evaluation, and integration. Provide third-tier support for Company production systems. Install, maintain, and perform configuration of Infrastructure applications. Upgrade Applications and Tools, install patches, troubleshoot and resolve application problems, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Participate in the creation of entire Systems (Clients, Server Hardware, network, and databases). Build and maintain strategic partnerships with peer teams. Build relationships with enterprise architecture team, and design to best meet the standards of our multi-tenant architecture. Lead and coordinate activities for incident management, service development, service transition, and continual service improvement of store systems infrastructure services. Recommend, improve, and document systems engineering processes and procedures. Collaborate with other Systems Engineers. Participate in on-call 24-7 rotation schedule. Minimum Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field of study, plus five (5) years of experience in a systems engineering role or a related occupation. Position also requires five (5) years of experience in the following: Software engineering, systems engineering, or Information Systems Management; Develop scripts or applications to automate systems implementation, configuration, or management; Information Systems Management experience in a distributed environment (retail or equivalent); Work within standard project management methodologies; Handle multiple assignments and use strong prioritization skills; Middleware and other messaging tools; Modern network enabled relational databases; Modern operating systems or platforms; Systems Infrastructure engineering in a large distributed environment; Windows server and client operating systems, Active Directory; Modern point of sale systems, technologies, and peripherals. How to Apply: Resumes to: recruiting@advance-auto.com. 4910-8430-0135, v. 2 California Residents click below for Privacy Notice: https://jobs.advanceautoparts.com/us/en/disclosures Advance Auto Parts, Inc. is a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider that serves both professional installers and do-it-yourself customers. As of October 5, 2024, Advance operated 4,781 stores primarily within the United States, with additional locations in Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company also served 1,125 independently owned Carquest branded stores across these locations in addition to Mexico and various Caribbean islands. Additional information about Advance, including employment opportunities, customer services and online shopping for parts, accessories and other offerings can be found at www.AdvanceAutoParts.com.

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