Engineer II, Private Cloud; Datacenter

8117 - Dallas Technology Hub - 5830 Granite Parkway, Plano, Texas, 75024

Car Max, the way your career should be!

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled IT Infrastructure Specialist to join our dynamic Technology department. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in IT infrastructure and server management, with an understanding of both physical and virtual environments. This position requires communication skills, collaboration, a natural orientation to process analysis and optimization, and experience with data analysis and project management.

• Work with fellow associates to develop and build self-service capabilities, to enable our internal customers to move quickly and deliver on the needs of the business.
• Collaborate with colleagues in design, product management, and systems architecture to develop experimental solutions and bring great ideas to life.
• Influence direction and provide technical leadership internally and externally to the team, offering innovative ideas that contribute to building win-win solutions through continuous feedback and critique within an agile environment.
• Consult with internal customers and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering and agile practices.
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practices to continuously improve what we do and ensure our customer experience is the best it can be.

It takes a passion for technology to develop and iterate on innovative solutions to problems. You will partner with Engineers, Architects and Leaders in product and technology to influence the direction for the organization as we establish the patterns, guidance and design for building and deploying on-prem infrastructure to support our customer facing applications. You will be a technical mentor to other Engineers and serve as an expert in supporting multiple areas of the Business.

You should have strong communications skills, a strong sense of ownership, a passion for customer service, and a deep technical understanding of how the cloud platform can contribute to the overall success of our application development.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related Technology field or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of work experience

• Technical experience in infrastructure, build and deployment, including private and public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualization, and access control.
• Server OS
  - Microsoft Windows Server 2016+, RHEL 7+
• Directory Services
  - Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP
• Mentoring internal and external team(s) in platform management and reusable patterns and helping to solve complex problems that affect the organization.
• Experience handling project management responsibilities (prioritization, planning, scheduling, status reporting)
• Strong attention to detail, problem investigation and diagnostic skills
• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation.

Additional experience working with or using the following is a plus:

• 1+ years of scripting or coding experience with one or more languages (all moved from required)
• Automation
  - Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, Terraform, Git Hub
• Virtualization – Microsoft Hyper‑V, Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
• Nutanix
  - Lifecycle Management, Prism Central
• Telemetry & Monitoring
  - Solar Winds, DCIM Software, Eco Struxure
• Backup
  - Veeam Backup & Protection
• Microsoft legacy stack – Microsoft IIS, Microsoft MSMQ
• CMDB – Net Box, Service Now
• Azure IaaS knowledge

Plano:
This role will be based out of the Car Max Dallas Tech Hub (Plano, TX) and associates will work onsite 2 days per week

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Sponsorship will not be considered for this specific role.

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