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 Systems Engineer to join our Enterprise Systems Engineering team. This team is a highly collaborative, diverse, geographically distributed team. Our mission is to administer, secure and improve thousands of servers and systems across the CARFAX enterprise as well as delivering new systems to meet business goals. 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.

What you'll be doing:

You will collaborate with systems engineers and development teams to solve complex technical challenges to deliver both on premises and cloud-hosted solutions for externally facing websites
Innovate new ideas to build, monitor and evolve our systems and processes
Build and maintain systems and dashboards, develop using tools and scripts to monitor, recover, automate and streamline basic server and container administration functions
Server administration for company servers by proactively keeping systems secure with bug fixes, security patches, OS and software upgrades, and technical troubleshooting
Configure hardware, peripherals, services, storage, etc. in accordance with security standards, project or operational requirements
Design, build, and administer enterprise systems infrastructure to meet business requirements for reliability and business recovery
Continuously analyze and evaluate our systems, products, and processes for potential improvements, identifying throughput, latency, errors, and other problems for remediation

What we're looking for:

3+ years operational experience with Kubernetes clusters, including setup, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting
3+ years AWS or other cloud experience
Experience with Python, YAML, Bash, PowerShell, object oriented or scripting languages
Experience writing and using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, etc.)
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, general logging and event management and other observability tooling
3+ years’ experience using configuration management systems (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
Advanced skills to troubleshoot various systems and technologies
Have a broad set of technology skills - DEVSECOPS - Development, Security and Operations
Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions
Operational experience - ready to own the uptime and quality of systems

Preferred Experience:

Linux or Windows system administration
Site Reliability experience
Familiarity with F5, Gloo, VPC, load balancing, and the ability to troubleshoot and diagnose server and network related items
Experience with DHCP, DNS, IPAM
Experience with LAMP, Tomcat or other application stacks
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

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

Don’t just take our word for it:

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