Platform Engineer II (Virtualization) (Onsite Role)

O'Reilly Technology Services, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

401k with employer contributions start

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Tuition educational assistance

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

O’Reilly Auto Parts in Springfield, MO seeks a Platform Engineer II to manage the lifecycle of enterprise virtualization platforms and core infrastructure services, from design to retirement.

You will leverage automation and telemetry to boost reliability, optimize capacity, and support enterprise technology initiatives. This role cannot be performed remotely and requires collaboration with IT stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Manages end-to-end lifecycle of virtualization platforms.
• Plans automation and maintenance for objective-driven outcomes.
• Communicates platform architectures and trade-offs clearly.
• Analyzes telemetry to drive capacity planning and improvements.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams to deliver infra upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Monitor virtualization platform lifecycle and upgrades.
• Define and deliver enterprise virtualization and storage environments.
• Develop automated provisioning pipelines using IaC.
• Research telemetry and logs to identify optimization opportunities.
• Lead risk analysis and remediation for infrastructure incidents.

Skills

Platform lifecycle management

Automation & IaC

Telemetry analysis

Capacity planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

A Platform Engineer II will assist in all aspects of lifecycle management of enterprise virtualization platforms and core infrastructure services (from design to deployment, and through to retirement), leveraging automation and systems telemetry to maintain platform reliability, optimize capacity, and support enterprise technology initiatives. This position will be located in Springfield MO and cannot be performed remotely.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Monitor all aspects of the virtualization platform life cycle, including host clustering, capacity planning, platform lifecycle upgrades, and storage/network integrations.
• Perform analyses to stay abreast of infrastructure trends and ensure platform efficiency and reliability.
• Define and deliver enterprise virtualization platforms, software-defined networking, and storage environments that meet internal engineering needs by selecting the best possible approaches within established infrastructure systems.
• Deliver defined platform features, automated provisioning pipelines, and infrastructure capabilities from a designated part of the engineering program, selecting the best available approach using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.
• Research data from platform telemetry, monitoring tools, system logs, and incident reports to identify opportunities for infrastructure optimization, stability improvements, and platform enhancements.
• Explore virtualization bottlenecks, compute constraints, or high-availability failover issues, establishing potential causes, remediation plans, and mitigation strategies.
• Execute the deployment and maintenance plans for virtualization platform components, managing project schedules, identifying operational risks, and communicating status to IT stakeholders.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret large datasets related to virtual resource utilization, compute/memory contention, and storage I/O patterns; identify trends and patterns in the data to uncover capacity constraints and opportunities for platform optimization.
• Edit technical runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) in line with organizational documentation guidelines.
• Work within an established project management plan to achieve specific platform delivery and infrastructure sprint goals.
• Review the backlog of infrastructure maintenance, patching, and technical debt tasks; reprioritize work and deployment of platform resources to reduce downtime and increase system resilience.
• Provide advice, technical training, and assistance to cross-functional systems and application teams to resolve complex platform queries and ensure virtualization capabilities are properly understood and adopted.
• Demonstrate core platform capabilities, automated provisioning workflows, and self-service virtualization tooling to engineering teams to drive adoption of standardized infrastructure patterns.
• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditations, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Maintain an understanding of relevant virtualization technology, emerging container/hybrid platforms, external regulations, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Skills: Required:

• Manages and develops all aspects of enterprise virtualization platforms to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance across the organization. Oversees and manages all stages of a virtualization platform's lifecycle, from initial provisioning to retirement, ensuring efficient processes, timely delivery, and adherence to quality and security baselines.
• Plans, organizes, prioritizes, and oversees infrastructure automation and platform maintenance activities to efficiently meet objectives.
• Communicates and articulates platform architectures, virtualization trade-offs, and root-cause analyses in a clear, compelling, and tailored manner to address specific challenges or meet organizational needs.
• Analyzes and researches infrastructure conditions, capacity trends, and emerging platform technologies to develop a comprehensive understanding that benefits the organization.
• Determines and analyzes trends from telemetry and monitoring data to assist in compiling reports that support infrastructure decision-making.
• Identifies potential stakeholders across application, networking, and security teams, analyzes their expectations, and develops strategies for managing stakeholder requirements.
• Reviews and evaluates architectural standards and system requirements to develop appropriate virtualization implementation plans or deliver actions required.
• Identifies, sequences, and resources project schedules for timely completion of platform migrations, patch management, and lifecycle upgrades.
• Plans, identifies, monitors, analyzes, and prioritizes infrastructure risks (threats and opportunities), creates response and failover plans, and manages risks if they occur.
• Identifies, verifies, and manages changes to the scope of virtualization projects or platform modernization initiatives, utilizing the most appropriate approach.
• Identifies appropriate measures for assessing platform performance and capacity limitations, validates with key stakeholders, and collects performance telemetry to recommend specific actions to increase platform value.
• Identifies, tracks, and enables the achievement of planned platform reliability benefits and intended modernization outcomes.
• Develops an effective change strategy based on gap analyses and enterprise readiness assessment results, including transition states, workload migration strategies, and release plans.

O’Reilly Auto Parts has a proven track record of growth and stability. O’Reilly is full of successful career stories and believes in a strong promote-from-within philosophy, encouraging you to grow your career along with the organization.

Total Compensation Package:

• Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off
• Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance with Optional Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs
• Tuition Educational Assistance Programs
• Opportunities for Career Growth

O’Reilly Auto Parts is an equal opportunity employer. The Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin or ancestry (including immigration status or citizenship), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions,) age (40 and over), veteran status, uniformed service member status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or another protected status as defined by local, state, or federal law, as applicable. Qualified individuals with a disability may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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