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Lead IT Systems Engineer
Company | Klaviyo |
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Location | Boston, MA, USA |
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Salary | $136000 – $204000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5+ years of experience leading systems administrator teams or equivalent.
- You have a proven track record of defining problem statements, managing technical projects, collaborating with stakeholders, and delivering impactful results.
- You’re a subject matter expert on a wide range of IT systems, from enterprise device management, secure identity, and endpoint security.
- You have extensive experience deploying hundreds of macOS and iOS devices at scale and building configuration profiles and policies.
- You’re excited about automating workflows and repetitive tasks.
- You have extensive experience in IdP configuration, management, maintenance and everything in between. Experience with Okta or Azure is preferred but not required.
- Passion for clean, concise controls and easily editable security functionality within each tool.
- The candidate must have strong experience working with enterprise-scale networking topics, which includes routing, DNS, and building and maintaining multiple global office networks and VPNs.
- Knowledgeable in vendor management and IT budget management.
- You have a baseline to intermediate level of experience with various scripting strategies using Bash, Powershell, or Python. Python is preferred and any AWS Lambda function experience is a plus.
- Participation in an after-hours on-call rotation with the IT Systems team is required.
Responsibilities
- You’ll mentor team members to grow and develop in their careers and help increase their scope and impact throughout their tenure at Klaviyo.
- Both give and receive meaningful feedback focusing on empathy, curiosity, and investment in growth.
- Establish team standards, implement frameworks for intake and prioritization of projects and tasks, and establish and monitor objectives and key results (OKRs).
- Partner with the stakeholders to build, maintain, and improve tooling/infrastructure and documentation that helps meet the business needs for today and the future.
- Collaborate with IT and internal teams to automate and improve workflows, implement and enhance escalation processes, and drive IT initiatives.
- Implement new processes, and evaluate and improve existing processes.
Preferred Qualifications
- You’ve worked with Okta and Okta Workflows or other similar SSO and automation solutions.
- You have experience as a systems administrator or systems engineer in a fast-paced and high-growth IT environment.
- Ability to build applications and tools that provide and/or use APIs to transfer data.
- Experience with VPC, EC2, Security Groups, ACLs, IAM in AWS and GCP.