Systems Engineer

Company: Convoy
Location: Seattle
Posted on: April 9, 2021

Job Description:

Convoy is transforming the $800 billion trucking industry. Our mission is to transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste. The industry is huge and so is the opportunity to change the way freight moves. The next time you're out driving and see an 18-wheeler on the road, that truck is empty 35% of the time. When big trucks drive empty, they throw unnecessary CO2 into the atmosphere. In fact, empty trucks generate more than 76 million metric tons of wasted carbon emissions every year. At Convoy, our digital freight network helps reduce those empty miles and cut carbon waste by nearly half. This is your opportunity to collaborate with an incredible group of people and help transform the freight industry. Join Convoy and help move the world forward. About you: As a Systems Engineer on the IT Systems team of Convoy, you are eager to get your foot in the door at a fast-paced, rapidly growing startup who has a modern technology stack. You are an expert at manipulating cloud services such as Okta, Google Workspace, Slack and Zoom to craft unified solutions for our workers. You will:

• Identify opportunities for application implementation, redesign, or process improvement - focused on Okta--
• Provide technical leadership and management over the IT systems which you have ownership and/or subject matter expertise.--
• Build a strong technical culture around our business systems that emphasizes technical excellence, rapid iteration, strong security, and frictionless user experiences
• Participate in change management and incident response procedures including being on a rotating on-call schedule.--
• Drive adoptions of Single Sign On & Provisioning across all applications in use by the organization
• Provide integrations between our Cloud System catalog.--
• Maintain cloud systems standards across our catalog of applications
• Write scripts / cookbooks / glue that automate tasks across application
• Work as the escalation point between various support teams for issues on the cloud systems
• Drive cloud systems security model and best practices in an enterprise environment
• Manage transition plans for major upgrades or patches
• Diagnose and investigate unique and complex systemic problems We're looking for someone who has:
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience working in IT
  • A minimum 3 years of experience managing a Workday mastered Okta deployment with at least 1000 workers.
  • Deep subject matter expertise with at least 3 of the following systems/applications: G Suite, Jamf, InTune, Cisco Meraki, Office 365, Azure AD, Zoom, Slack, Jira, AWS, Boomi, Workday
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex systems to non-technical stakeholders. Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the Convoy team. Outside of offering excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits, we also offer the following:-- * On demand mental and emotional health benefits through Lyra-- * On demand primary care through 98.6 * Generous paid time off * Paid parental leave program-- * Fertility benefit solutions via Progyny * Child-care and adult/elder-care options through Bright Horizons Convoy is an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you're a passionate team player who wants to have an outsized impact on a diverse and dynamic team, we'd love to hear from you!

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