Description
Join Team CARFAX as Systems Engineer
One last thing : Our four-day week continues in Summer 2025!
CARFAX is looking for a skilled Systems Engineer to join our Enterprise Systems Engineering team to provide administration and architectural support of Enterprise Applications to include VMWare and other systems. This effort will focus on existing virtual system architecture and other systems across the CARFAX enterprise as well as delivering new server and system capabilities to meet business goals. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record of administering, configuring, and supporting our VMWare virtualization infrastructure across multiple data centers, and demonstrate proficiency with large scale server administration, containerization, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), automation, networking, and Active Directory experience.This role includes working with multiple teams to deliver both on premises and cloud-hosted solutions for externally facing websites. You will collaborate with various teams to solve complex technical challenges, gather specifications, requirements, and perform systems analysis. Our Engineers provide primary server administration for company servers by proactively keeping systems secure with bug fixes, security patches, OS and software upgrades, and technical troubleshooting. We participate and facilitate project estimation and planning, to include multi-team systems integration and implementation.At CARFAX, we believe in the power of teamwork and value in-person interactions so that we can collaborate and thrive together. This position will require 3 days per week in our Columbia,MO office subject to change with future business needs.
As a System Engineer you'll be doing :
- Oversee, design, build, and administer virtual infrastructure to meet business requirements for reliability and business recovery
- Provide best practices, standards, training, and general support for both on-prem and cloud virtual environments
- Identify, assess, and evaluate business needs for capacity planning for VMWare infrastructure
- Integrate new solutions leveraging virtual systems
- Design, install, and administer on-prem systems and servers
- Configure hardware, peripherals, services, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project / operational requirements
- Participate, lead and initiate design discussions as it pertains to the virtual environment, including new technology research and prototyping
- Promote great security, design and quality for our virtual infrastructure and servers
- Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications and processes by continually analyzing and evaluate our systems, products, and process for potential improvements
- Create, troubleshoot and modify scripts and use IAC to automate administration tasks
- Produce and maintain documentation on our virtual and Windows systems and continue learning and teaching others as part of our team goals for education, knowledge sharing and collaboration
What we're looking for :
Minimum 5 years’ experience administering VMWare vSphere in a production environmentMinimum 3 years’ experience with VMWare SRM, VCF, VMC or VCDRMinimum 3 years' experience building, deploying and administering Windows or Linux systemsExperience with networking concepts and protocolsExperience with Unified Computing Systems (UCS) chassis and blade systems or similarExperience with SAN storage systemsOperational experience - ready to own the uptime and quality of Enterprise virtual environment and other systemsAdvanced skills to troubleshoot various systems and technologies and demonstrated ability to prioritize and troubleshoot issues both quickly and independentlyExperience with Python, Bash, PowerShell and other technology and scripting languagesExperience with configuration management systems (Chef, Ansible, Puppet), and Continuous Integration / Delivery, demonstrated believer in “automate everything”Experience using common infrastructure as code tool-sets (CloudFormation, Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager)Demonstrated initiative to learn, document and teachKnowledge of security and performance best practices for on-prem, cloud and hybrid architectures and have a broad set of technology skills within DEVSECOPS - Development, Security and OperationsAbility to work off hours on occasional evenings and weekends, and participate in on call rotations with the teamPreferred Experience :
VMWare Professional Certification such as Data Center Virtualization (VCP)Experience with DHCP, DNS, IPAM, load balancing, and the ability to troubleshoot and diagnose server and network related itemsExperience with Hyperconverged InfrastructureExperience with Active DirectoryExperience with TLS and Digital Certificates, and troubleshooting the sameFamiliarity with Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic or other monitoring toolsFamiliarity with CloudWatch, Splunk, or other logging aggregatorsWhat’s in it for you :
Competitive compensation, benefits and generous time-off policies4-Day summer work weeks and a winter holiday break401(k) / DCPP matchingAnnual bonus programCasual, dog-friendly, and innovative office spaces.For a comprehensive list of benefits, please visit our website : .Don’t just take our word for it :
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