IT Engineer

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IT Engineer
at Raise Marketplace, LLC

Full-Time
Chicago, IL

About Raise
Raise is the leading mobile payments and prepaid gift card platform where millions of consumers earn instant cash back and save money on purchases. The company has transformed traditionally simple pieces of plastic into one powerful payment mechanism that can be seamlessly used at 300,000+ retail locations nationwide.

As a marketplace with 4,000+ brands and 500 retail partners, Raise enables consumers to save money and instantly pay for in-store or online purchases at their favorite stores using their digital mobile wallet. In addition to offering value and convenience for consumers, Raise allows retailers to unlock a new, data-driven channel to activate targeted segments of the platform’s more than 2.5 million members.

Since 2013, Raise has saved members more than $150 million. The company is based in Chicago and has received $147 million in funding from investors including Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, and PayPal. Raise is available on both iOS and Android and at www.raise.com.

About the Position
An IT/Network Engineer, reporting to the engineering department, will guide and work alongside our Help Desk Engineer to maintain and address daily IT needs. 

The ideal candidate has good technical knowledge of our IT stack and will be able to communicate effectively to understand problems and explain its solution. We are looking for a self-starter who can take an end user’s request and turn it into actionable tasks that can be refined, prioritized and parallelized across multiple engineers.     

Responsibilities

  • Maintain daily support/performance of current IT environment:

                      ○  Networking: Meraki switches and Wireless AP, Cisco Catalyst switches

                      ○  Firewall and VPN: Palo Alto

                         ○  Virtualization: VWare

                         ○  Operating Systems: Apple OSX (majority), Windows, Microsoft 2012 R2 servers

                         ○  Directory: Active Directory with group Policy and SAML/OAUTH

                         ○  File Share: Microsoft file shares with DFS and AWS Storage Gateway

                         ○  VOIP: 8x8

                         ○  MFA: RADIUS for VPN authentication

                         ○  Endpoint Protection: Sophos

                         ○  Email, Docs, etc: Google

                         ○  Ticketing: Zendesk  

  • Create and improve documentation for IT environment and user facing processes such as VPN access

  • Troubleshoot hardware and software issues related to internal IT

  • Train users to promote self-sufficiency regarding IT support

  • Identify areas for improvement including targeted updates, automation, or replacement


Skills & Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field

  • 3-5 years of experience working in IT

  • End-user focused   

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Strong ability to prioritize in a changing business environment

  • Excellent working knowledge of computer systems, security, network and systems administration, and phone systems

  • Strong critical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving skills

  • Coding experience and an “automation mindset” is a plus

  • Knowledge of Linux system administration is a plus    

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(K) plan with discretionary company match, company paid short and long term disability and life insurance

  • Voluntary benefits like Pet Insurance and Identity Protection

  • Flexible Paid Time Off Policy, including paid time off for volunteering – “Raise Gives Back”

  • Pre-tax commuter program

  • Paid maternity/paternity leave

  • Company provided continental breakfast items 

 

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
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All candidates subject to credit and background checks at the time of offer

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36 S Wabash , Chicago, IL 60603

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