IT Systems Engineer

The Role: 

Carrot is looking for an experienced systems engineer to become the founding member of our Corporate Engineering team.  As the first hire on this team, you will wear many hats, and be responsible for up-leveling the engineering practices of our most critical core systems.  Corp Eng owns Identity and Access Management, Endpoint Management, Cloud Apps Engineering, and Security Engineering, to name a few.  You will need to be an expert in Identity and Endpoints at a minimum, and comfortable working across disciplines as the team matures.

The right candidate will be a solid all-rounder with a passion for helping up-level people, processes, and systems across the company.  You’ll have an entrepreneurial spirit that drives you to create seamless technology experiences for your stakeholders, some of which you’ll need to write yourself.  We have a strong core IT Ops team that you will be partnered with, who will leverage your solutions day to day.  Your primary stakeholders will include Security, whom you will work with daily to deliver best of breed solutions.

• Create and implement a vision that helps us adopt modern best practices for Client and Identity, including infrastructure as code and Zero Trust
• Work across People, IT, and Security to automate and streamline our onboarding/offboarding processes, and make RBAC easy to deploy
• Bootstrap the engineering practice for our growing client endpoint fleet, which is primarily Mac, but includes Windows, iOS, Android
• Ensure that our client endpoints are always encrypted, protected, easy to update, easy to inventory, and easy to use
• Work closely with our Security team to build an endpoint management program that keeps our data safe, and is a delight for users
• Work with the broader IT team to provide training, documentation, and learning opportunities

Minimum Qualifications: 

• This role typically requires 8+ years of related experience
• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in IT Solutions Architect or IT Engineer roles 
• Expert-level knowledge of Zero Trust concepts, frameworks, and solutions, including SASE and EDR solutions
• Expert level skills with Identity and Access Management using Okta, SAML, SCIM, Workflows
• Strong scripting/software development expertise in languages like Python, Bash, etc., and experience scripting against various APIs
• Strong background with leading MDM platforms, including JAMF and Intune
• Very strong with Mac and Windows systems internals, including deployment, packaging, custom development, endpoint security, policy enforcement
• Experience implementing Zero Trust security models
• Experience bootstrapping asset management for a fleet of endpoints at scale
• Experienced with directory services and common integrations such as Okta
• Bent on delivering a seamless user experience
• Track record of strong security partnerships and current knowledge of the security landscape

Compensation: 

Carrot offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of their life inside and outside of work, including health and wellness benefits, retirement savings plans, short- and long-term incentives, parental leave, family-forming assistance, and a competitive compensation package. The starting base salary for this position will range from $130,000.00- $200,000.00. Actual compensation may vary from posted base salary depending on your confirmed job-related skills and experience.