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<h1><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About Upsun (formerly Platform.sh) </strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Upsun is the cloud application platform humans and robots love. It is built for today’s hybrid teams, where AI agents write and test code and humans focus on solving the problems that really matter. Developers, DevOps engineers, and platform teams use Upsun to build, ship, and scale confidently without wrestling with backend infrastructure. We give you your time back. You get:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Predictable performance, even at scale </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Secure, compliant environments by default </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Real-time observability and profiling built in </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cloning, configuration, and provisioning in seconds </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AI-ready features that plug directly into your stack </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The name says it all. "Up" means uptime, reliability, and acceleration. "Sun" reflects our follow-the-sun-support, a 24x7, globally distributed support team keeping the lights on while you rest. Our core belief is that software should power brighter solutions and greater innovation. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Upsunners are a remote, global workforce, and we thrive in a multicultural team. We are committed to open source and an open, welcoming environment. Our team spans the globe and the experience spectrum. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What's our commonality, our cultural fabric? A curious spirit and a thirst for knowledge; an eagerness for innovative ideas and cultures. We believe we can build anything together in an environment that frees you to do your best work. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our values: </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">🌿 We make a positive impact.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">✨ We aim for the stars.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">💚 We care for each other. </span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Impact of an IT Systems Engineer</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As an IT Systems Engineer you take the identity plane from working to well-run: automated, governed, and consistent, so access is correct by default, and our auditors find evidence rather than surprises. Reporting to the IT Director, you play a pivotal role in a growing internal IT department, driving the internal systems layer around identity—from our SaaS estate to Google Workspace. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You are the person who makes identity quietly reliable: predictable, documented, and automated, while remaining flexible enough to support the wider IT function as our scaling remote organization evolves.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What to expect</strong></span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Identity and access management: </strong>Own Okta as the backbone of how people get access, managing the app catalog (SSO in