You’re a collaborative visionary, someone excited about tackling the hard problems in technology. You are the conduit between the entire IT experience and the employee. The role requires an experienced decision-maker with a proven track record for developing and managing corporate infrastructure for high-growth companies. You are a leader who can independently grow and inspire a rapidly evolving team and develop deep relations with internal customers of IT. This Management position requires a leader with financial acumen that can operate independently with minimal supervision. You are responsible for the overall performance and reliability of SmartBiz’s infrastructure and products. You design and implement the tools that automate building reliable and performant systems. The perfect blend of strategy with execution.   You will have a chance to work with a dynamic, supportive and social team that takes pride in helping our small businesses customers and isn’t too busy to socialize and have fun together. You will have fantastic exposure to the Fintech industry and a limitless opportunity for upward mobility within our organization. SmartBiz is the future of SBA lending and we hope you will join our team on this exciting journey. A Typical Day: Work with product engineering teams on design and implementation of large scale distributed systems Automate as much as humanly possible and always configure as code Bring ideas to life to help make the lives of engineer’s better Predict our future failures and work proactively to mitigate them Advocate & implement reliable design patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation) Working on our next generation internal platform for efficiently automating our AWS infrastructure for ease of use by our product engineers Automating our alerts configuration tool to work with dynamic thresholds Building automation around determining the causation and correlation of events in our infrastructure Core Requirements:  BS/BA Computer Science degree preferred 5+ years of technical work experience in IT in both small and large-scale global organizations Comprehensive experience in servers, networking, security, software and business apps support. Strong network experience with solid understanding of TCP/IP, networking, firewalls, routers and switches. Excellent customer service, face-to-face communication skills and attitude Excellent people management skills within and across organizations Ability to excel within an informal startup environment and a flat organizational structure, and provide credible hands-on management to highly qualified engineers Experience bringing software to production at high scale An eye for automation and instrumentation The ability to decompose complex systems and find failure scenarios Knowledge of AWS services Contributions to open source software Dynamic and inspirational technical communicator – both written and verbal   Perks:   Competitive salary
100% paid Medical and Dental Insurance Tri-weekly catering, as well as unlimited snacks, coffee and espresso Ownership stake in the company Downtown office in San Francisco’s financial district, walking distance to Bart MacBook Air assigned to you on day one Monthly company happy-hours and off-sites The best lending product in the industry

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