# IT Systems Engineer

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $162,000 - $226,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4871633007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e994a45c-88a

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- infrastructure management
- automation
- systems engineering
- corporate infrastructure
- windows servers
- linux servers
- vmware technologies
- puppet enterprise
- configuration management
- scalable storage solutions
- netapp
- performance metrics
- basic networking concepts
- scripting languages
- bash
- python
- perl
- vmware services
- data center virtualization
- horizon