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 3 days per week in our Columbia,MO 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:

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.