Senior Systems Engineer

About the role

The Enterprise Systems Engineering team at CARFAX and S&P Global Mobility is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our winning team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in large-scale server administration, with broad expertise in configuring and managing on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, install, and administer on-premises systems, servers, hardware, and storage in accordance with security standards and operational requirements.
• Architect, integrate, and administer enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with business requirements for reliability and disaster recovery.
• Establish and promote best practices, standards, training, and general support for both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Continuously analyze and develop solutions to improve platform performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across applications and processes.
• Lead design decisions, including researching and prototyping emerging technologies.
• Champion exceptional containerization and cloud platform design and quality.
• Build and maintain monitoring systems and dashboards; develop tools and scripts to automate and streamline server and container administration.
• Provide operational support through on-call rotations, ensuring high availability and timely incident resolution, including root cause analysis.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building, hardening, and administering Linux in a production environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes clusters, including setup, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting (AWS EKS experience is a plus).
• 5+ years of experience designing, supporting, and migrating on-premises resources to AWS cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience across core services including EC2, VPC, API Gateway, and related CLI and SDK tooling.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, and AWS CDK.
• Proficiency in Python, YAML, Bash, PowerShell, or other scripting and object-oriented languages.
• Broad expertise in DevSecOps, encompassing security and performance best practices for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid architectures, with a demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, documentation, and mentoring.
• Operational ownership of system uptime and quality, including advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis across diverse systems and technologies.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Multi-cloud experience spanning AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Familiarity with F5, Gloo, Lambda, VPC, load balancing, and diagnosing server- and network-related issues.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience.
• Experience with Active Directory and file systems management.
• Experience with TLS, digital certificates, and related troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with CloudWatch, Splunk, Logstash, or other log aggregation tools.