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.

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

• 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