Software Engineer

About Grainger
Grainger is North America's leading Maintenance Repair & Operating provider, and we are the 10th largest North American E-commerce player with over 50% of our revenue coming from online transactions. Within our Grainger Technology Group (GTG), we use technology to support the ever-changing and dynamic needs of a supply chain carrying 1.5 million products and an employee base of 25,000+ nationwide; and we are committed to delivering technical solutions to support the business in our mission to stay atop. We provide technology solutions across the enterprise including our call centers, branch network, sales, and our multiple digital channels. The team supports over 1000 applications across the network and operates in an agile environment to provide complex solutions quickly. GTG is a team of 500+ and is comprised of Solution Delivery and Operations, Security, Insights, Data Engineering and Analytics, Platform and Product Engineering and are built in a way to support our dynamic customer landscape.
Position Details:
Grainger is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Automation Engineer. You will focus on the automation delivery of IT infrastructure using Python and Ansible. You will help promote automation across the technology group. You will work with Technical Leads, Engineers, Architects, and Operations to develop product design solutions. You will work with Product Managers by giving feedback on planning roadmaps and backlog priorities. You will have experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting automated solutions.
You Will:

• Develop an automation framework to deliver IT infrastructure services to replace time consuming, error-prone, manual repetitive configuration and provisioning tasks.
• Build a workload to production. With knowledge of engineering best practices such as TDD, trunk-based development, frequent incremental iterative deployments, pair programming.
• Perform automated lifecycle management applying configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, or comparable toolsets.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, or comparable toolsets.
• Collaborate with engineers, other technical teams, and management to expand the role and capability of automation in IT infrastructure.
• Recognize inefficient processes, guide projects forward, provide technical updates.

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 3+ years of experience coding in higher-level programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, or C++) at an intermediate or higher level with Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structures, algorithms, runtime complexity, and unit and functional test methodologies.
• 2+ years of experience working with a configuration management platform such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar
• 2+ years of experience with Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Experience with DevOps tools such as Terraform, Packer, GitHub Actions, Git, GitHub
• Experience with hybrid-cloud environments with on-premises infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs and JSON payloads for several automation tasks relevant to infrastructure activities

Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health, and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• Paid time off (PTO) and company holidays
• Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period
• Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement
• A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical, and social wellbeing programs

DE&I Statement:
"Grainger is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or protected veteran status."