Senior IT Systems & Ops Engineer

1 Day ago • 6 Years + • $145,000 PA - $155,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior IT Systems & Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining corporate applications, promoting IT best practices, and ensuring technological compliance. You will implement tools for IT operational efficiencies, streamline workflows for access management, develop and test automations, and create IT standards. You will also provide internal customer service and support, travel to offices for support, and build vendor relationships. This role requires cross-functional collaboration and strong problem-solving abilities.
Must have:
  • 6+ years of IT professional experience in tech company
  • 4+ years configuring complex IT systems
  • Deploying and maintaining cloud-based applications
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills
  • Experience leading large-scale IT projects
  • Understanding of onboarding & offboarding processes
  • Experience in managing collaboration tools
Good to have:
  • Experience with Verkada, Nightfall, and Proofpoint
  • Familiarity with cloud-based SD-WAN and SDN
  • Detail-oriented problem solver
  • Hands-on approach with excellent communication
Perks:
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Monthly allowance for wellness
  • Annual allowance towards Childcare
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning
  • Retirement; 401k offering
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave

Job Details

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! 

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

💻 Role 

As our Senior IT Systems & Operations Engineer, you will: 

  • Engage stakeholders throughout the company to understand the needs and priorities to securely implement and maintain corporate applications, while promoting IT best practices cross-functionally
  • Implement and maintain tools for IT operational efficiencies and automation, with a lens on innovative and modern technology (i.e. AI chatbots) 
  • Ensure technological compliance with evolving security standards and policies, while future-proofing automations, computer systems, MDM, office network infrastructure, and remote collaboration tools 
  • Streamline and optimize the configuration and workflows for access management with Workday data, Okta configuration, and downstream applications 
  • Develop requirements, build, and thoroughly test workflows and automations in iPaaS tooling (i.e. Zapier) to automate manual processes for IT and business stakeholders
  • Create, maintain, and promote standards, procedures, and documentation for IT 
  • Champion IT company wide by ensuring quality internal customer service for our global company through service desk tickets and access administration 
  • Travel to our offices on a periodic basis to provide onsite AV, networking, and conferencing support
  • Partner closely with leadership to build and report on team OKRs and roadmaps 
  • Build and maintain vendor relationships and third party services as needed 

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of San Francisco.

👋 You 

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego and a growth mindset, while leaning into action, details, and impact goes a long way here.

Join our growing IT Systems & Operations team! You will work cross functionally with our Security, Finance, and People team, as well as stakeholders across the company to ensure we are providing all employees with an exceptional experience from onboarding to offboarding, enabling them with the appropriate hardware and software to effectively do their job.  

You should have strong internal customer support skills, excellent problem solving abilities, and a knack for working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, multi-project environment. Our ideal candidate will bring hands-on technical experience with many tools listed below, as well as the curiosity and adaptability to learn new ones.   

In addition to 6+ years of experience as an IT professional in a high growth and/or tech company and 4+ years of experience configuring complex IT systems, you should have: 

  • A proven track record of deploying and maintaining cloud-based corporate applications and automations for access management, security, and collaboration
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills across all levels, including executives and external partners, with an ability to influence and lead without authority 
  • Experience leading large-scale IT projects with strategic planning and detailed documentation (decision docs, requirements, test plans, deployments)
  • Solid understanding of onboarding & offboarding business processes, with the ability to translate this into technical hardware and software needs 
  • Proven success in scaling IT processes with automation and emerging technology for high-growth environments
  • Experience in managing collaboration tools for remote & distributed teams (Google Workspace, Okta, Zoom, Slack, Alassian Jira, internal AI chatbots, etc.)
  • Hands-on background developing workflow automations in lightweight iPaaS tools
  • Robust understanding of core IT systems & operations processes: hardware inventory management, internal service desks, MDM, IAM, A/V & video conferencing, and Wi-Fi & VPN
  • Strong knowledge of MDM best practices and hands-on experience with Apple Macbooks, Kandji, Snipe, Microsoft Windows, Intune, Azure Active Directory, and/or equivalents 
  • Solid understanding of security and privacy principles with experience in Verkada, Nightfall, and Proofpoint preferred
  • Familiarity with computer networking, especially cloud-based SD-WAN and SDN (Cisco Meraki)
  • Detail-oriented problem solver with strong organizational and documentation skills, able to manage multiple projects and navigate ambiguity with ease.
  • Hands-on approach with excellent communication and a passion for providing direct support.

💰Compensation

$145,000/year-$155,000/year + benefits + equity.

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

🎁 Benefits 

  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
    • Home office setup allowance
    • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Care benefits
    • Monthly allowance for wellness
    • Annual allowance towards Childcare
    • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
  • Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • Parental Leave
    • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE 

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

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