Senior Platform Engineer: Virtualization & IaC Lead

O'Reilly Auto Parts; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Purchase Plan

401k with employer contributions

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

Tuition Educational Assistance

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

O’Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our virtualization platforms. You will drive automated provisioning, platform telemetry analysis, and resilient infrastructure patterns across enterprise environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering teams, defining standards, and delivering scalable, high‑availability infrastructure. On‑prem and hybrid capabilities may be involved to support growth and reliability.

Qualifications

• Manages and develops all aspects of enterprise virtualization platforms to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• 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 standards.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Monitor all aspects of the virtualization platform life cycle, including host clustering and capacity planning.
• Define and deliver enterprise virtualization platforms and software‑defined networking/storage environments.
• Deliver defined platform features, automated provisioning pipelines, and infrastructure capabilities using IaC and automation frameworks.
• Research data from platform telemetry, logs, and incident reports to identify optimization opportunities.
• Explore bottlenecks and HA failover issues, establishing causes and remediation strategies.
• Execute deployment and maintenance plans for virtualization components and communicate status to IT stakeholders.
• Collect and analyze large datasets related to resource utilization to identify capacity constraints.
• Edit runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and SOPs per guidelines.
• Work within project plans to achieve platform delivery milestones and sprint goals.
• Review backlog of maintenance tasks and reprioritize work to reduce downtime.
• Provide training and guidance to cross‑functional teams on virtualization capabilities.
• Demonstrate automated provisioning workflows and self‑service tooling to drive adoption of standardized patterns.
• Develop capabilities through training and certifications to stay current with virtualization tech and best practices.

Skills

High availability

Lifecycle management

Automation & IaC

Architectures & root-cause

Telemetry & analytics

Stakeholder management

Platform performance

Standards & reviews

Job description

O’Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our virtualization platforms. You will drive automated provisioning, platform telemetry analysis, and resilient infrastructure patterns across enterprise environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering teams, defining standards, and delivering scalable, high‑availability infrastructure. On‑prem and hybrid capabilities may be involved to support growth and reliability.