Description
The IT Systems Team at xAI manages a dynamic and evolving virtual infrastructure providing secure, high-performance, and reliable corporate resources for business-critical users and applications.
This role focuses on building, deploying, and managing internal Windows and Linux infrastructure while collaborating with other teams to develop scalable solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Building, managing, and supporting complex application stacks on Windows and Linux Servers.
- Providing Windows and Linux troubleshooting and technical support.
- Deploy, configure and support VMware technologies, including vCenter, ESX and Horizon.
- Use Puppet Enterprise to automate and manage configurations.
- Working with other engineering teams and third-party vendors to implement scalable solutions.
- Ensuring compliance by collaborating with internal audit and compliance teams.
- Developing and maintaining standard operating procedures.
- Participating in a 24/7 on-call support rotation.
- Managing and monitoring all installed Windows and Linux systems and infrastructure.
- Installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems and system management tools.
- Proactively ensuring high levels of system availability and reliability.
- Monitoring and optimizing application performance, identifying bottlenecks, and collaborating with developers to implement solutions.
- Writing and maintaining custom scripts to improve system efficiency and automation.
Required Qualifications:
- Deep understanding of infrastructure management and automation
- 3 to 5 years of experience in the following:
- Systems Engineering for Corporate Infrastructure.
- Managing large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.
- Virtualization at scale.
- Configuration Management.
- Managing scalable storage solutions, preferably NetApp.
- Developing and maintaining performance metrics for systems.
- Strong understanding of Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Open Source.
- Strong understanding of basic networking concepts.
- Proficient with using Puppet to automate and manage configurations.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience writing technical design documents and maintaining documentation.
- Familiarity with working in a source-controlled environment.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Perl.
- Experience with VMware services, including VMware data center virtualization and VMware Horizon.
Basic Qualifications:
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of orchestration tools.
Compensation and Benefits:
$162,000 - $226,000
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
ITAR Requirements:
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.