Principal Systems Engineer

Colonial has provided a wide range of opportunities for job candidates who are highly qualified, skilled, motivated and team players. Employees find exciting opportunities to grow and develop their careers at a stable company which offers a generous compensation and benefits package that includes annual incentive bonuses, retirement plans, insurance coverage and a host of other features that support a happy, active, productive and rewarding life.

Come to Colonial, a great place to work, where people matter most, and where safety 24/7 is paramount.

Ready to work for Colonial Pipeline Company?

Are you intrigued by the thought of being part of revolutionizing the energy industry and a new era in the pipeline industry? Do you want to be a part of a company that is obsessed with excellence in everything we do? A company growing and expanding our business that is full of opportunity? If so, we are seeking smart, safety focused, and energetic professionals to join our team to help us to the next level of excellence!

What

is it that we do at Colonial Pipeline Company?

Colonial Pipeline is the largest refined products pipeline in the United States, transporting more than 100 million gallons or 2.5 million barrels per day. Colonial transports various grades of gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, jet fuel, and fuels for the U.S. military through a pipeline system. Colonial transports approximately 45 percent of all fuel consumed on the East Coast, providing refined products to more than 50 million Americans.

About

the Principal Systems Engineer Position

The Principal Systems Engineer is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, automation, configuration, and support of complex enterprise infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, hybrid cloud, and Operational Technology (OT) environments. This role improves reliability, resiliency, security, scalability, and operational efficiency while serving as a senior technical subject matter expert and leading medium-to-large technology initiatives. The position is based in Alpharetta and requires approximately 20% travel.

What

You Get to Do

• Design, implement, configure, maintain, and support enterprise infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, hybrid cloud, IT, and OT environments.
• Engineer and support compute, storage, virtualization, operating systems, cloud platforms, identity integration, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Improve system reliability, performance, security, availability, and operational efficiency through automation, observability, preventive maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management, and scripting solutions using technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, and Power Shell.
• Apply cloud architecture and governance practices, including landing zones, identity and access controls, networking, security guardrails, resource organization, policy enforcement, monitoring, and cost management.
• Evaluate workloads for modernization, migration, re-platforming, or continued on-premises operation based on business, security, reliability, supportability, and cost requirements.
• Install, configure, optimize, and troubleshoot servers, storage, virtualization platforms, operating systems, cloud services, and related infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain system standards, procedures, architecture documentation, technical roadmaps, and operational support practices.
• Serve as a senior technical SME and escalation point while providing technical direction, guidance, and mentorship to engineering and support teams.
• Lead medium-to-large infrastructure and modernization projects, managing scope, timelines, resources, vendors, risks, and budgets.
• Research and recommend technologies and automated solutions that reduce technical debt, strengthen security, improve resiliency, and simplify operations.
• Support infrastructure security, change management, incident and problem management, service continuity, and continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Bring to the Table

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Eight years of progressively responsible experience implementing, administering, engineering, and managing complex enterprise technology infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience designing or supporting production workloads in Microsoft Azure.
• Advanced experience with Windows Server, RHEL/Linux, VMware or comparable virtualization technologies,…