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Lead IT Systems Engineer

Lead IT Systems Engineer

CompanyKlaviyo
LocationBoston, MA, USA
Salary$136000 – $204000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

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.