Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

We're hiring a Senior IT Engineer with leadership experience!

Do you love creating, evolving, and maintaining sophisticated IT systems? Are you driven to identify and eliminate weaknesses in your systems? Do you love ensuring your coworkers and customers get the most from their IT infrastructure? Do you love the challenge of supporting the growing technical needs of a small enterprise with a complex and expanding production environment? Do you insist that your systems are easy to monitor, resilient to failure, perform well, and recover quickly? Are you a talented/experienced full-time IT Engineer ready to step into a more senior role? Talk to us.

We're immersed in the technologies and practices below. You're well-experienced in many of these, and are able to get proficient with the remainder. And you maybe even have some better suggestions for the supporting tech.

• Linux/Windows 7/Windows 10/MacOS
• Networking, Fortigate firewalls, IPSec VPN
• The AWS and VMWare ecosystems
• LinOTP MFA
• Monitoring systems: e.g. Wazuh, Prometheus/Grafana/AlertManager
• Asterisk/Twilio phone systems
• HP managed switches/APs/RADIUS
• Git/GitHub
• Terraform/Ansible

Leadership experience

You have leadership experience, and like it; you're good with people, as well as the tech. You're prepared to lead a team, when called upon. You value quick problem solving; you think in an organized fashion; you keep your promises. You proactively identify gaps, and plan the work to fill them. You delegate well, and teach effectively.

Primary responsibilities

• Establish/evolve/maintain office and production network architecture/IT infrastructure
• Manage/troubleshoot production IT infrastructure to support operations
• Meet rapidly-growing capacity needs with sufficient lead time
• Report regularly on key performance/capacity metrics
• Perform/oversee daily system, database server updates
• Ensure systems/logs are backed up
• Diagnose/fix tech issues related to software and hardware
• Write clear/concise documentation
• Pursue the best solutions, always considering time-investment and cost as key factors
• Track/report all tasks
• Support transformation of established infrastructure using automation
• Establish new systems environments, upgrade/patch existing ones, using automation
• Build necessary automation/tools/alerts on an ad-hoc basis (using Bash, Ruby, Python, Go, etc.)
• Monitor system and application performance to detect errors
• Identify/suggest possible improvements to procedures
• Respond appropriately to requests as needed: in person, via phone/chat/text/email

Who are we?

We are an online consumer lender specializing in flexible installment lending and open-ended lines of credit. We are on the cusp of significant growth in the scale of our operations and need you to help us grow.

Benefits/Perks

• Competitive pay and benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k
• Flex hours, including plenty of work from home (We're currently in the office Tuesdays and Thursdays)
• Casual work environment, jeans encouraged
• A large variety of projects to work on
• Work with smart, cool and dedicated folks, including Chicago's best young FinTech professionals
• A fun, highly collaborative environment: you teach us, we'll teach you
• Rapid advancement in your skillset and experience
• Gourmet coffee/espresso
• Easy proximity to transit
• Sheltered bike rack/Bike room
• Gym in building
• Mother's Room in office suite
• ADA compliant facilities

Qualifications

• Experience (5+ years) buidiing/maintaining/supporting large office and production systems
• Experience maintaining/supporting highly-available distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL a plus), MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android administration

Strong experience with:

• Linux CLI environment
• Common scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• TCP/IP networking/routing, SSH/SFTP, SMTP, IMAP, DNS, BGP
• Network security (e.g. firewalls (Fortigate), NATs, VLANs, IPSec VPNs, TLS/encryption, etc.)
• User access control (ActiveDirectory/LDAP)
• The AWS ecosystem, and VMWare virtualization
• Backup/restore systems
• Experience with:
• Clustering, High Availability, DR, SAN
• Version control systems (Git/GitHub)
• SQL, PostgreSQL
• Writing clear/concise process documentation
• Central logging/monitoring solutions: e.g. Wazuh, Prometheus/Grafana/AlertManager, etc.
• HAProxy, nginx, load balancing
• HP switches/APs/RADIUS
• Asterisk/Twilio phone systems
• LinOTP MFA

Familiarity with:

• Container orchestration (e.g. Docker/Kubernetes)
• Must be flexible and be willing to learn new tools/methods quickly
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment; remain focused/result-driven under stress
• Must be organized, manage/plan/breakdown projects well, estimate difficulty/magnitude of constituent tasks
• Must have excellent analytical/troubleshooting skills — identify/solve complex problems independently
• Must be a strong team player / communicate well / good people skills
• Must be able to drive projects to completion independently
• Must protect confidential information
• Must reside in the Chicago, IL area, or be willing to relocate
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

Deinde Financial is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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