Senior Systems Engineer

Youtopia®: We’re on a mission to “Make Vibrant Health and Longevity to 120 a Simple and Achievable Reality for All of Us”! If that inspires you, keep reading.

Our tribe is built on the foundation of love, driven by our massively transformative purpose. We strive to be heroes to Youtopians everywhere. That starts with living a life true to ourselves and representing the company with honor 24x7x365.

On our team, we strive to help you dedicate 70% of your working time doing what you do best: building amazing things with other amazing people in a fast-paced environment. (and having a blast doing it!) Your accomplishments will be measured in “people served” and progress made daily.

A unique opportunity exists at Youtopia® for a self-starter with a growth mindset to join our start-up where innovation is valued. We need a Senior Systems Engineer to establish and grow our cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure for scalable, high-impact apps for customers and internal teams. Such an engineer would have an additional opportunity into senior management, if so desired.

As our Senior Systems Engineer, you will:

• Establish, improve, and maintain cloud infrastructure for apps that are making material impact on our world for millions of users
• Manage secure networks, both public and private, across multiple entities
• Establish proactive monitoring and alerting for high availability
• Proactively monitor infrastructure for potential problems and perform steps to mitigate them
• Evaluate and deploy Azure Resource Manager templates
• Work with database administrators to ensure target RPO and RTO
• Work with developers and DevOps to ensure delivery of apps and services
• Work with users to determine business requirements and meet them
• Recommend, schedule, and perform upgrades and improvements related to applicable systems
• Conduct research on emerging products and standards related to systems
• Liaise with vendors and partners for efficient implementation of system products and resolution of any issues
• Create and update technical documentation, including logical and physical diagrams
• Help establish and adopt best practices, including system upgrade and maintenance procedures
• Adhere and help improve information security policies
• Participate in on-call support schedule
• Mentor less senior team members

What you bring to the table:

• Mastery in secure, scalable, and observable infrastructure for distributed apps and systems
• Natural problem solving with ability to manage complexity via simplification, abstraction, etc.
• Affinity toward reliable systems that minimize disruptions and on-call support needs

• Effective collaboration; great communication is key to any project
• Constant curiosity; constantly learning and evolving
• Comfort in wearing multiple hats, juggling multiple projects, and coordinating with existing dev team, DevOps, product managers, and stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years Microsoft Azure administration
• Experience setting up, configuring, and supporting internal and external networks
• Experience setting up, configuring, and using proactive monitoring and alerting tools and frameworks like Zabbix, Prometheus, or Nagios
• Experience maintaining and upgrading systems with no or minimal disruption
• Experience troubleshooting various issues, including functional, access, and performance
• Ability to improve and adapt to rapidly evolving infrastructure
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certification(s): AZ-104/AZ-103 (AZ-100/AZ-101), AZ-500, AZ-300/AZ-301
• Experience supporting Terraform and/or Kubernetes
• Experience supporting CI/CD with automation platform
• Familiarity with scripting using Bash, Python, etc.
• Familiarity with Git or similar version control system
• Experience working in startup environment

BenefitsWhy you should work with us:

• Unique opportunity to work with an early stage, well-funded, start-up on the path to help millions of people achieve vibrant health through the power of optimal individualized nutrition
• Tech debt is managed so you can take pride in what you create
• Flexible work environment
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance