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.
This role has an expectation of 2 days in the London, ON office per week, subject to change based on 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:
- 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