Job description
Become a part of the Young Living family!
Young Living is a universally known, household name that is revered and respected for the countless benefits it brings to humanity. Propelled by the world’s purest essential oils and oil-infused products, along with our passionate commitment to empowering individuals to whole-life wellness, we champion the modern essential oil movement. A global, purpose-driven wellness revolution is underway, and Young Living leads the charge.
Working at Young Living
Our community of wellness started small in 1993, when
D. Gary Young
and Mary Young developed their first organic herb farming and distillation operation. After establishing Young Living in 1994, the Youngs developed its groundbreaking Seed to Seal® process, which preserves the integrity and potency of essential oils through every step of the production process.
We believe every person has the right to wellness. It transcends all and has the power to unite us as members of the same human family striving for the same happiness. It is part of the reason we are passionate about making everyone feel included, welcome, and respected. Regardless of age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local law, all are welcome in the Young Living family.
Director, IT Systems Infrastructure
Summary
The Director of IT Systems Infrastructure directs, supervises, and manages day-to-day IT operations, infrastructure engineering for building and supporting Young Living’s cloud infrastructure, physical and software systems infrastructure, and network infrastructure worldwide. This role governs IT-related projects, ensuring that information technology capabilities continually support the overall business goals and objectives. They oversee and collaborate the work of systems architecture, dev ops, physical and cloud application infrastructure, and IT operations, relying on their extensive experience and judgement to plan and accomplish the goals. This position is a key leader in the organization, providing the strategy, leadership, and day-to-day management of management of the whole IT process.
What You’ll Get To Do
- Report to the CIO, creating objectives that support the execution of the global strategic roadmap, including product vision, business strategy and team KPI accountability
- Oversee all the technology operations, systems architecture, dev ops, physical and cloud application infrastructure, and evaluate them according to the established business and IT goals
- Ensure that physical systems and cloud application infrastructure and operations best practices, designs, development operations, site reliability activities, and automation, has been implemented and reviewed appropriately
- Approve all business requirements prior to technical solution assessment and implementation
- Ensure effective operations of all networks, development and disaster recovery systems and processes Align with peers in various business units to make sure the system capabilities are delivered to all markets in the most effective way
- Develop and build a high performance, multi-functional team with appropriate expertise necessary to achieve technology objectives
- Work with leadership to communicate to business the current workloads, status, and engineering progress.
- Develop global governance standards for software development, including Quality, Documentation, Release Management and corporate systems and application systems Architecture
- Ensure a smooth transition from the project team, including documenting workflow, training, and monitoring the success
- Identify and recommend any new technology solutions by participating in hardware and software evaluations and maintaining vendor relations
What You’ll Need
- Experienced in Infrastructure, hybrid onsite/data center and cloud
- Experienced in VMware and SAN storage
- Knowledgeable in Active Directory, Azure and Office 365, including Teams: Management and Scripting with PowerShell
- Knowledgeable Active AWS Certified Associate Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator certification.
- Highly experienced in Vendor Contract management: Microsoft, VMware, etc.
- Experienced in CI/CD Automation
- Knowledge of DevOps, Systems, Security, and Network processes.
- Proficiency with Python and Bash
- Proficiency with Docker, Windows and Linux systems.
- Expert level experience with AWS services including but not limited to ECS, SQS, Kinesis, EC2, ALB/NLB, SNS, Lambda
- Experience working with Atlassian Jira and Confluence
- Strong experience with C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, As and Kotlin structures, and CI/CD Automation
- Skilled in project management
- Strong communication skills
- Advanced skilled with Terraform, CloudFormation, Bash, PowerShell and AWS CDK
- Experience with the following technologies desired: DynamoDB, Elastic Search and Open Search – able to query log data, AWS CloudWatch Alarms, reviewing metrics and Logs for monitoring and dashboards, Kubernetes (EKS) and Kafka
- Ability to write T-SQL queries and work with PostgreSQL / Oracle / SQL Server
- Ability to succinctly explain thoughts and concepts to others
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or a master’s degree (non-technical) or non-technical degree plus professional certification.
- 10-15 years of similar or related experience;
- 10+ years leading and managing IT operations infrastructure, architecture, and development teams,
- 3+ plus years software development experience
- AWS Professional Certification would be a huge plus, but it is not required.
Additional information
Young Living is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
If you’re an active Young Living employee, please apply through Workday.
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