Senior Systems Engineer

Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - like powersports vehicles, RVs, and OPE - fast, easy, and accessible.

Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.

Founded in 2014, we’re a remote-first company with 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners.

We are looking for a motivated Sr. Systems Engineer with a passion for automation, interconnectivity, security, and implementation of robust technology systems. Embedded in an Agile environment, you will work cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and other internal stakeholders company-wide to ensure that Octane’s foundational technology and corporate IT stack, both internally critical and externally visible, have reliability, security, and a fast pace of improvement. You will have the opportunity to use your expertise in coding/scripting, cloud technology, and system design to solve the challenges of maintaining systems, building technology infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation.

Responsibilities: 

• Support foundational IT infrastructure improvements via design and implementation of interconnected systems
• Configure and maintain technology platforms including Identity Provider (IdP), Mobile Device Management (MDM), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) 

• Use automations, APIs, integrations, and new processes to support business technology needs
• Configure and manage networks in the cloud, on-premises, and a variety of SaaS platforms
• Enhance system, network, and application observability and telemetry
• Deliver engineering, technology, and process improvements related to security and compliance operations 

• Respond to outages with a timely and efficient resolution in support of production infrastructure and applications, and support the team’s after-hours on-call schedule
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders
• Mentor and coach junior engineers on the team and across the engineering organization

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience leading multiple projects designing, configuring, deploying, and maintaining robust corporate technology platforms
• Advanced knowledge of Linux and shell/bash scripting and/or coding skills in Powershell, Python, or other equivalent languages. Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is a plus
• Experience with Cisco Meraki, Unifi, and networking best practices including VPN, Site-to-Site routing, and Wireless network configuration in large office environments.
• Knowledge of security best practices in a corporate technology environment including server/network hardening, endpoint security, and risk mitigation
• Advanced knowledge of configuring identity management, SSO, and provisioning with an IdP (Okta, Azure AD)

• Experience with engineering practices including agile methodology, change management, technical proposals, and monitoring/alerting

• Experience with automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, UIPath, or Apache Airflow
• Experience with infrastructure logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability tools including SIEM technology (e.g. Datadog, Sumo, Sentinel)
• Basic knowledge of common cloud services in AWS (EC2,RDS,IAM,S3,R53) and Azure (AAD, DNS, VM, Blob)

Benefits:

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Generous Parental Leave
• Up to 5 weeks time off (self-managed)
• Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year 
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability
• Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc

Disclaimer:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.

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