Senior Systems Engineer

Overview

Copart is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate hybrid cloud infrastructure. This highly experienced individual contributor will provide technical leadership, lead complex initiatives end-to-end, mentor engineers, and serve as a technical escalation point.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate Copart’s Linux and hybrid infrastructure platforms.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of highly available, resilient, and disaster-recoverable systems.
• Own complex infrastructure initiatives from design through production rollout and operational handoff.
• Act as a technical escalation point for challenging system and performance issues.
• Build, manage, and troubleshoot large-scale Linux environments.
• Support and integrate enterprise storage, virtualization, and cloud platforms across Copart environments.
• Participate in and help improve 24x7 on-call operations.
• Perform deep incident analysis, lead root-cause investigations, and deliver corrective and preventative actions.
• Design, build, and maintain automation solutions to reduce operational toil and improve consistency.
• Develop and support infrastructure-as-code and configuration management practices.
• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks, scripts, and tooling to enable scalable operations.
• Champion best practices around system hardening, patching, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain high-quality documentation, diagrams, and runbooks.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, and design discussions.
• Share best practices and emerging technologies across the broader engineering organization.
• Work closely with Network Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Development teams on shared initiatives.
• Translate application and business requirements into reliable infrastructure solutions.
• Provide technical input to architecture reviews, capacity planning, and platform roadmap discussions.

What you'll need

• 7 to 10 years of experience in designing, building, automating, and operating hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Strong, hands-on expertise in Linux systems engineering, including administration, tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Ubuntu.
• Experience with RHEL / CentOS / Rocky Linux.
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts, including the OSI model, routing and NAT, DNS, SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, and LDAP.
• Strong experience with automation and scripting, including Python and Bash.
• Proven experience creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks in production environments.
• Proficiency using GitHub for version control, collaboration, and deployment workflows.
• Experience operating in mission-critical, 24x7 production environments.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting and securing public cloud platforms, including GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere/Nutanix or similar virtualization platforms.
• Experience supporting SAN and enterprise storage systems.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet, SaltStack, or Chef.
• Experience building and supporting Docker containers.
• Infrastructure provisioning and orchestration using Terraform.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.
• The role includes participation in 24x7 on-call operations.