Senior Systems Engineer

Join Team CARFAX as Senior 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. One last thing: Our four-day week continues in Summer 2025! 

CARFAX is looking for a skilled Senior 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 2 days per week in our London,ON office subject to change with future business needs.

As a Senior 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 environment
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with VMWare SRM, VCF, VMC or VCDR
• Minimum 3 years' experience building, deploying and administering Windows or Linux systems
• Experience with networking concepts and protocols
• Experience with Unified Computing Systems (UCS) chassis and blade systems or similar
• Experience with SAN storage systems
• Operational experience - ready to own the uptime and quality of Enterprise virtual environment and other systems
• Advanced skills to troubleshoot various systems and technologies and demonstrated ability to prioritize and troubleshoot issues both quickly and independently
• Experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell and other technology and scripting languages
• Experience 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 teach
• Knowledge 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 Operations
• Ability to work off hours on occasional evenings and weekends, and participate in on call rotations with the team

Preferred 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 items
• Experience with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Experience with Active Directory
• Experience with TLS and Digital Certificates, and troubleshooting the same
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic or other monitoring tools
• Familiarity with CloudWatch, Splunk, 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
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Places to Work.

About CARFAX: You may know CARFAX as the company that has provided trusted vehicle information reports for over 30 years, but we are so much more!  CARFAX is on a mission to help millions of people shop, buy, own, and sell used cars with more confidence.  To do this we are constantly expanding our offerings and stretching into new areas to provide needed, trusted assistance to consumers at all points of the car buying, ownership, and selling lifecycle.  At CARFAX we invest in the growth of our employees and offer rewarding, creative, fast-paced work, as well as many other opportunities to challenge you in your career.

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.