Copart is looking for a Systems Engineer to support, troubleshoot, automate, and maintain Copart’s hybrid cloud Infrastructure. This includes the integration, management, and troubleshooting of Linux servers, enterprise storage, virtualization, and other core systems infrastructure that supports all Copart’s environments. The ideal candidate is one with the desire to innovate, learn new technologies, utilize their excitement of technology to mentor others, and will have in-depth knowledge of Linux with skills in tuning, troubleshooting, and automating the environment.
Provide hands-on work to build, manage, and troubleshoot an extensive Linux environment supporting all other technology teams within Copart.
Provide design, integration, support, and management of Copart’s systems infrastructure.
Engineer and architect high performing, resilient, and easily recoverable infrastructure.
Develop and maintain documentation of the systems and environments.
Plan, implement, and manage projects and solutions within the environment.
Explore new technologies, methods, and processes which would improve efficiency, performance, and reliability of existing infrastructure.
Continuously explore and develop automation for operational tasks and self-service tools for the Systems Engineering team’s customers.
Coordinate and work with other teams such as Network Engineering, DEVOPS, developers, and Security on projects and initiatives.
Research incidents to provide root-cause-analysis reports and improvement action items.
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations.
Required Skills
Excellent expertise with Linux administration, tuning, and troubleshooting. Preferably Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS/Rocky families.
Good understanding of networking concepts and technologies such as but not limited to: OSI layers, routing, address translation, DNS, SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS, ssh, LDAP, etc.
Good experience with Python and bash shell scripting.
Good experience creating and supporting Ansible playbooks.
Good experience utilizing Github for code management and deployments.
Desired Skills
Supporting and securing public cloud-based environments such as Google Compute, AWS, and Azure.
Supporting and troubleshooting Vmware vSphere environment.
Supporting and troubleshooting SAN storage arrays
Supporting enterprise configuration management tools such as Puppet, Saltstack, or Chef.
Supporting and creating docker containers.
Integration and automation with Terraform.