Oct. 31, 2025

Principal Systems Engineer

The Guitar Center Company Westlake Village, California

You’ll design and implement technical solutions, work directly with engineering teams, and set standards for how we deliver infrastructure and platforms. What You’ll Do: • Design and implement multi-cloud infrastructure strategies (AWS, Azure, OCI), ensuring resiliency and flexibility • Lead cloud migrations from legacy environments, focusing on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency • Automate everything: infrastructure provisioning (Terraform, Helm), configuration management (Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and environment deployments • Build and support modern containerized platforms (Kubernetes, Rancher, etc.) with strong observability practices • Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Harness, homegrown solutions) with secure software supply chains and release automation • Standardize infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns, environment blueprints, and operational runbooks across sites • Identify and fix technical debt in distributed data center deployments and inconsistent environments • Collaborate with security and compliance to ensure infrastructure meets governance and risk requirements • Conduct technical design reviews and serve as a trusted expert on distributed systems and cloud-native architecture • Share knowledge through documentation, tooling improvements, and mentoring other engineers This position is not eligible to participate in the Guitar Center Company bonus program based on the Company's performance. The job posting is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any particular employee, which is always dependent on experience, education, and other factors.

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