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Join Team CARFAX as Systems Engineer!
Isn't it time you bragged about where you work? At CARFAX, we do, every day. We pride ourselves on being mission-focused on helping to grow a brand built on accuracy and integrity. We care deeply about our products and our customers. We’re more than just a company: We help millions of consumers make more-informed decisions every day. We know that our teammates are our most valuable asset, and we value a balanced life while tackling challenging projects in a fast-paced environment.
CARFAX is looking for a skilled Systems Engineer to join our Enterprise Systems Engineering team. This effort will focus on existing servers and products across the CARFAX enterprise as well as delivering new servers and systems to meet business goals. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a successful track record in large-scale server administration, with a broad set of skills in configuring and administering on-premises environments, Kubernetes, application stacks, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and networking.
As a System Engineer you'll be doing:
- Design, install and administer on-premises systems and servers.
- Integrate new solutions with existing on-premises infrastructure.
- Provide best practices, standards, training and general support for on-prem environments.
- Design, install, and administer on-prem systems and servers
- Configure hardware, peripherals, services, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements
- Design, build, and administer enterprise middleware and application infrastructure to meet to meet business requirements for reliability and business recovery.
- Participate in design decisions, including researching and prototyping new technologies.
- Promote exceptional containerization platform design and quality.
- Build and maintain systems and dashboards, develop using tools and scripts to monitor, recover, automate and streamline basic server and container administration functions.
- Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications and processes.
- Continuously analyze and evaluate systems, products and processes for potential improvements.
What we're looking for:
- 3+ years of experience in building, hardening and administering Linux in a production environment.
- 3+ years of hands on experience with Kubernetes clusters, including setup, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting (Rancher is a plus)
- 3+ years of experience with configuration management systems (Chef, Ansible, Puppet).
- 3+ years of experience with LAMP, Tomcat, or other application stacks, RabbitMQ.
- Experience with Infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, AWS CDK etc.
- Experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell or other object-oriented or scripting languages.
- Advance troubleshooting skills for various systems and technologies.
- Demonstrated initiative to learn, document, and teach.
- Broad technology skills in DEVSECOPS (Development, Security, Operations) with knowledge of security and performance best practices for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid architectures
- Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic.
- Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.
Preferred Experience:
- 3+ years of experience building, hardening, and administering Windows in a production environment.
- Familiarity with F5, Gloo, VPC, load balancing, troubleshooting and diagnosing server and network related items.
- Site Reliability experience.
- Experience with DHCP, DNS, IPAM
- Experience with Active Directory, file systems management.
- Experience with virtualization, VMWare, and data storage systems.
- Experience with TLS and Digital Certificates, and troubleshooting the same.
- Familiarity with CloudWatch, Splunk, Logstash or other logging aggregators.
- Competitive compensation, benefits and generous time-off policies
- 4-Day summer work weeks and a winter holiday break
- 401(k) / DCPP matching
- Annual bonus program
- Casual, dog-friendly, and innovative office spaces.
- For a comprehensive list of benefits, please visit our website: https://jobs.jobvite.com/carfax/p/benefits.
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