Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Remote job DevOps / Sysadmin at Octane

Octane is unlocking the power of financial products for merchants and consumers. Our cutting-edge technology and innovative financial products empower businesses with more control and flexibility, enabling them to deliver seamless digital experiences, drive customer loyalty, and build long-term value.  

Octane supports merchants throughout the sales cycle: connecting dealerships with high-intent buyers, driving transparent, fast, and easy closings with award-winning technology, and providing on-going customer care with superior loan servicing.

Founded in 2014, Octane supports over 60 OEM partner brands and over 4,000 dealer partners, and has a team of over 600. Visit www.octane.co.

Octane’s IT & Infrastructure team is seeking a skilled Senior Infrastructure Engineer to manage its Identity management provider (Okta) and its connections to other enterprise, cloud-based SaaS applications such as Google Workspaces, Intune, and its HRIS and implement SSO and SCIM integrations with automated user provisioning and workflow.

Octane’s IT & Infrastructure team provides support to shared enterprise business applications such as corporate email, collaboration tools, virtual meeting platforms, and other shared services. IT & Infrastructure is also responsible for managing employee user identity, and is responsible for the security and reliability of Octane’s fleet of workstations and other devices in a cloud and remote-first enterprise. This role is focused on back-office IT support needs as opposed to DevOps or Site Reliability.

This role involves configuring and maintaining tools such as Okta Identity Provider (IdP), Mobile Device Management (MDM), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). You will leverage automation, APIs, and integrations to support business needs while managing networks across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS platforms. Additionally, you will enhance system observability, deliver security and compliance improvements, and respond efficiently to outages. A key part of this role is mentoring junior engineers and creating best practices to guide both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities: 

• Support foundational IT infrastructure improvements via design and implementation of interconnected systems
• Configure and maintain technology platforms including Okta 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
• Design, 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:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Sciences, telecommunications, or computer science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Industry certifications such as CISM, Microsoft IAAA, CIAM, CISSP, and Okta Certified Administrator or higher
• 7+ 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
• Expert knowledge of Identity management principles in a large-scale corporate environment, including automated identity governance, user access certification, privileged access management and related technologies in Okta or AzureAD
• Experience with Cisco Meraki, Unifi, and networking best practices including VPN, Site-to-Site routing, SASE, and wireless network configuration in large office environments
• Knowledge of security best practices in a corporate technology environment including endpoint security and risk management
• Expert knowledge of configuring identity management, SSO, and third-party provisioning with an IdP through technologies such as SAML (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 Okta Workflows, Okta Identity Governance, 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)

Compensation: The role described above offers a base salary of $120,000 to $165,000 + a bonus incentive.  Your offer will be based on location, the alignment of your qualifications with the requirements of the job and internal equity.  In addition to the above-mentioned salary, Total Rewards include bonus eligibility, a stock option package, and benefits as outlined below.

Benefits:

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Generous Parental Leave
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy - Time Off When You Need It
• 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
• Wellhub (Gympass) Wellness Benefit
• Powersports Safety Benefit

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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