Systems Engineer

Join Team CARFAX as a 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. 

We’re passionate about having a creative and innovative environment where our team members collaborate and continuously learn and grow. CARFAX is looking for a skilled Systems Engineer to join our Enterprise Systems Engineering team. This team is highly collaborative, diverse, and geographically distributed. Our mission is to administer, secure, and improve thousands of servers and systems across the CARFAX enterprise, while also delivering new systems to meet business goals. We expect our candidate to demonstrate a successful track record in large-scale server administration, with a broad set of skills in configuring and administering on-premises and cloud environments, containerization, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and networking. 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 2 days per week in our London, ON office subject to change with future business needs. What you'll be doing: 

• Design, install, and administer on-premises systems and servers.
• Integrate new solutions with existing cloud resources or on-premises infrastructure.
• Provide best practices, standards, training, and general support for both on-prem and cloud environments.
• Configure hardware, peripherals, services, storage, etc., in accordance with security standards, project, or operational requirements.
• Design, build, and administer enterprise cloud and hybrid systems infrastructure to meet business requirements for reliability and business recovery.
• Participate in design decisions, including researching and prototyping new technologies.
• Promote exceptional Containerization and Cloud 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:

• 5+ years of experience building, hardening, and administering Windows in a production environment.
• 3+ years of experience with configuration management systems (Chef, Ansible, Puppet).
• Experience with Unified Computing Systems (UCS) chassis and blade systems or similar
• Experience with SAN storage systems
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including setup, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting (AWS EKS is a plus).
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, Azure or other cloud environments.
• Experience with DHCP, DNS, IPAM
• Experience with Active Directory, file systems management 
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, AWS CDK, etc.
• Proficiency in PowerShell, Python, YAML, Bash, or other object-oriented or scripting languages.
• Hands-on experience with AWS tools and products (e.g., EC2, VPCs, API Gateway, AWS Console, CLI, SDK).
• Advanced 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.
• Operational readiness to own the uptime and quality of systems.
• 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 Linux in a production environment 
• Experience with virtualization, VMWare, and data storage systems
• Experience with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Experience with LAMP, Tomcat or other application stacks
• Experience with TLS and Digital Certificates, and troubleshooting the same
• Familiarity with F5, Gloo, VPC, load balancing, troubleshooting and diagnosing server and network related items
• Site Reliability experience
• Familiarity with CloudWatch, Splunk, Logstash or other logging aggregators

What’s in it for you:

• 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

Don’t just take our word for it:

• 10X Virginia Business Best Places to Work
• 9X Washingtonian Great Places to Work
• 10X Washington Post Top Workplace
• 3XSt. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Places to Work

About CARFAX

CARFAX, part of S&P Global Mobility, helps millions of people every day confidently shop, buy, service and sell used cars with innovative solutions powered by CARFAX vehicle history information. The expert in vehicle history since 1984, CARFAX provides exclusive services like CARFAX Used Car Listings, CARFAX Car Care, CARFAX History-Based Value and the flagship CARFAX® Vehicle History Report™ to consumers and the automotive industry. CARFAX owns the world’s largest vehicle history database and is nationally recognized as a top workplace by The Washington Post and Glassdoor.com. Shop, Buy, Service, Sell – Show me the CARFAX™. S&P Global Mobility is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets.

CARFAX is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of CARFAX to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of race, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, disability or handicap, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, CARFAX will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. We maintain a drug-free workplace. We are a participant in E-Verify.