At Jamf, we believe in an open, flexible culture based on respect and trust. Our track record and thriving work environment all stem from the freedom we grant ourselves to get the job done right. We unite around common goals while respecting personal approaches, believing that fulfilled individuals create a thriving, vibrant workplace. We take pride in helping tens of thousands of customers around the globe succeed with Apple.
Jamf offers remote, in-office, and hybrid roles. Work-life balance remains our priority while feeling connected is important to maintain our strong culture, achieve our goals, and thrive as #OneJamf.
What you’ll do at Jamf:
In this role the Senior Systems Development Engineer at Jamf is responsible for automation and development of our backend infrastructure that powers the Jamf Cloud that our
customers rely on to manage Apple devices in their organizations. This includes providing the internal infrastructure that our Software Development Engineers use to build and
deploy Jamf products in the Cloud.
What you can expect to do in this role:
- Develop, deploy, and maintain production environments by identifying and applying automation, tools, and techniques such as infrastructure as code, configuration as
code, serverless, and containerization. - Ensure security best practices are identified and integrated into system designs and configuration.
- Assist in evaluating, planning, configuration, and implementation of new software services.
- Develop custom tools and automation through programming and scripting.
- Support software development by maintaining and scaling our continuous integration and continuous delivery environment as needed.
- Apply data lifecycle management to sensitive data through backups, permissions management, and auditing.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, triaging and escalating alerts, and assisting in disaster recovery as necessary for services the team is responsible for.
- Member of an Agile team providing code reviews, velocity estimation, planning input, and participating in other Agile methodology workflows.
- Work and communicate effectively with product owners, development teams, and cloud and delivery teams.
- Create and maintain technical documentation.
- Performs other duties as required and completes all job functions as per departmental policies and procedures.
- Responsible for setting technical direction for team responsibilities
- Cross-train other staff members on new technologies
- Ability to delegate tasks and mentor other
What we are looking for:
- Minimum of 3 years experience in one or more of these disciplines: Continuous integration tools and techniques (e.g. Jenkins,
Bamboo, Github actions).oConfiguration management and deployment tools (e.g. Docker, Chef,
Puppet). - Systems administration or similar role focused on performance analysis, capacity planning, and forecasting.
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a power user of various operating systems (e.g. MacOS, Linux, Windows) (Required).
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a current programming language (e.g. Java, Python, Golang) (Required).
- Minimum of 3 years experience using source control management tools (e.g. Git, Subversion) (Required).
- Minimjm of 3 years experience using issue tracking software (e.g. JIRA, Salesforce)(Required).
- Experience developing enterprise grade software with understanding of the software development life cycle (Preferred).
- Experience with infrastructure as code techniques (e.g. Bicep, CloudFormation, Flux) (Preferred)
- Experience in enterprise security and hardening best practices (Preferred).
- Experience building and maintaining cloud native services (e.g. Azure, Bicep) (Preferred)
- Experience working with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. LogicMonitor, Sumologic, ELK) (Preferred)
- Experience with containerization concepts and Kubernetes (Preferred)
- Experience working with structured databases (e.g. MySQL, CosmoDB, DynamoDB) (Preferred)
Education and Certifications
- 4 year / bachelor's degree (Preferred).
- A combination of relevant experience and education may be considered
What is a Jamf?
You go above and beyond for others, are willing to help, and support the team around you. You value and learn from different perspectives. You are curious and resourceful, a problem-solver, self-driven and constantly improving. You are excited to try new things, explore new ideas, and seek new opportunities. You care about inclusion and diversity, social responsibility, and are someone who just wants to do the right thing.
What does Jamf do?
Jamf extends the legendary Apple experience people enjoy in their personal lives to the workplace. We believe the experience of using a device at work or school should feel the same, and be as secure as, using a personal device. With Jamf, IT and security teams are able to confidently manage and protect Mac, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV devices, easing the burden of updating, deploying and securing the data used by their end-users. Jamf’s purpose is to simplify work by helping organizations manage and secure an Apple experience that end-users love and organizations trust.
We are free-thinkers, can-doers and problem crushers with a passion for helping customers empower their workforce to focus on their jobs, not the hassles of managing technology – freeing nurses to care, teachers to teach and businesses to thrive. We have over 2,500 employees worldwide who are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work each and every day.
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Jamf is committed to creating an inclusive & supportive work environment for all candidates and employees. Candidates with disabilities or religious beliefs are encouraged to reach out if they need additional support or alternative options to our recruiting processes to accommodate their disability or religious belief. If you need an accommodation, please contact your Recruiter or Recruiting Coordinator directly. Requests for accommodation will be handled confidentially by Recruiting and will not be shared with the hiring manager. Jamf is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against individuals who request reasonable accommodation for disability or religious beliefs.
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Jamf, the standard in managing and securing Apple at work, extends the legendary Apple experience people love to businesses, schools and government organizations through its software and the 100,000 members of Jamf Nation, the largest community of Apple IT admins in the world. Today, 75,300 global customers entrust Jamf with more than 32.3 million devices as of 12/31/23.
