Senior Platform Engineer (Virtualization) (Onsite Role)

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

Sr Platform Engineer

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 and virtualization trends to 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, utilizing 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 to uncover capacity constraints and performance improvement opportunities.

• 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 platform delivery milestones 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.

• 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.

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 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.

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