• Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
• Architect and deploy IT solutions that will scale with our product adoption, employee count, and physical footprint.
• You’ll be responsible for our core network at all office locations. Including managing and unifying multiple networks, securing traffic, and maintaining uptime.
• Performance management and optimization across all applicable tools.
• Develop solid working relationships with stakeholders including Operations & InfoSec to ensure security throughout the IT environment.
• Anticipate business needs and provide world-class service with empathy, knowledge-sharing, and timeliness.
• Communicate the benefits of new technologies, services, and policies to the employee base through in-person training, whitepapers and other communications.
• You will provision, maintain, and support the equipment and services that our employees use to do their jobs. This includes computing accounts, software, infrastructure equipment, network transport and hardware.
• Keep up to date with market trends and innovative technologies that we may or may not implement in the future.
• You’ll be purchasing equipment and services from multiple vendors. Leverage vendor relationships to solve problems and/or discover new offerings.
• Mentor less experienced staff both technically and behaviorally, when applicable.
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do

About You

• BS degree in Computer Science, IT, or related engineering discipline. Or equivalent years of experience.
• 10+ years experience architecting and implementing scalable IT projects from start to finish.
• OS agnostic, proficient with and can support with whatever is best suited to get the job done.
• Experience selecting, deploying, and maintaining IP-based video and voice solutions.
• Experience architecting, implementing, and maintaining an AD installation.
• Experience with network routers, switches, firewalls, access points and other related hardware. Can configure networking equipment at command line (including Fortigate, Cisco IOS, Meraki hardware).
• Experience with MPLS, VPN and other technologies used to unify and secure traffic between corporate networks.
• Experience managing multiple vendors and negotiating the best pricing and terms with each.
• You are serious about security yet your security philosophy takes into account the need to maintain a positive company culture and give our employees enough freedom to get things done.
• Ability to travel between office locations in CO and CA and other domestic locations as needed.
• Persuasive - Bring others to their point of view using logic, data, and emotion. Have a formal process and framework by which to make qualitative and quantitative points, not just using emotional appeals
• Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in
• Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others
• Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active
• Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals

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