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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Systems Engineer - **Company:** Aprio Llp - **Location:** Overland Park, KS, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Active Directory, IBM System I, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Business Systems, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Windows PowerShell, Role-Based Access Control, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Virtualization Technology, Policy as Code, Cloud Platform System, Information Technology, Bicep, CIS Benchmarks, Terraform, Server Operating Systems & Platforms, Legacy Systems, Vmware - **Published:** July 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=85ec52da792507b2 ## About the Role * 5+ years in systems engineering, systems administration, or infrastructure operations, including time in a senior individual contributor or technical lead capacity. * Strong fundamentals across multiple infrastructure domains (server platforms, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, backup and recovery). * Experience operating production workloads in at least one major cloud platform. * Demonstrated experience leading major incidents and disaster recovery exercises. * Ability to produce clear architecture, operational, and decision documentation that holds up under audit and peer review. * Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain trade-offs across technical and business audiences in plain language. * Comfortable mentoring less senior engineers and owning quality-of-output for one or more domains. * Comfortable serving as senior escalation in an on-call rotation., * Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage, identity, RBAC, monitoring). * Advanced administration experience with enterprise virtualization, hybrid Active Directory, and endpoint management platforms. * Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Bicep, ARM) and exposure to policy-as-code. * Advanced scripting / automation (PowerShell, Python, Bash) and experience automating operational work at scale. * Experience with observability or AIOps platforms. * Operations or administration experience with specialty business systems (e.g., IBM iSeries / AS400). * Experience operating within regulated environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, NIST 800-171, CMMC, or similar). * Industry certifications (Microsoft AZ-104 / AZ-305 / AZ-500, MS-102, VMware VCP, Red Hat RHCSA/RHCE, ITIL Foundation, or equivalents). * Experience supporting a professional services, accounting, or financial services firm. * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field - or equivalent applicable years of experience. ## Description * Domain ownership: Own the operational health of one or two infrastructure domains (e.g., server platforms, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, identity, backup and recovery, specialty business systems). Keep them measurably healthy and improving. * Major incident leadership: Lead major incident response: drive technical resolution, coordinate responders, communicate to stakeholders, and own the post-incident review and corrective actions. * Patching and DR programs: Own the patching program for assigned domains - cadence, exception handling, reporting, continuous improvement. Own disaster recovery execution: maintain and exercise DR runbooks, coordinate tests, and ensure recovery objectives are met and evidenced. * Server lifecycle at scale: Drive capacity planning, refresh cycles, configuration baselines, and decommissioning of legacy systems. * Monitoring and observability: Operate and improve monitoring and observability across managed systems - tune alerting, eliminate noise, build dashboards, and contribute to anomaly-detection and AIOps initiatives. * Cross-team initiatives: Lead initiatives that span Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Networking, and application teams - controlled rollouts, hardening efforts, platform migrations. Land them without breaking production. * Standards and patterns: Define and document operational patterns, runbooks, and standards the team executes against and the auditors review. * Mentorship: Pair with Systems Engineers, run technical reviews, give substantive feedback, and grow the next tier. Quality of output from less senior engineers is part of your scope. * Operational partnership: Be the senior partner Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Networking, and IT Service Management call when they need operational input. Solve problems with them, not at them. * Specialty systems: Provide operational ownership of specialty business systems and legacy platforms supporting business-critical applications. * Security and Audit: Apply and validate security baselines, lead remediation of high-severity findings, and keep your domains' evidence map current. * Automation: Push toward repeatable, codified operations (IaC, automated evidence collection, scripted runbooks) instead of one-off manual work. * On-call: Participate in and serve as senior escalation for the on-call rotation, including after-hours support for high-severity incidents, change windows, and disaster recovery events. ## Related Videos - [Back(end) to the Future: Embracing the continuous Evolution of Infrastructure and Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/440-back-end-to-the-future-embracing-the-continuous-evolution-of-infrastructure-and-code) - [WebAssembly: The Next Frontier of Cloud Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/972-webassembly-the-next-frontier-of-cloud-computing) - [Infrastructure as Code: The Developer's Secret Weapon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1221-infrastructure-as-code-the-developer-s-secret-weapon) - [Security Pitfalls for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/726-security-pitfalls-for-software-engineers) - [Azure-Well Architected Framework - designing mission critical workloads in practice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1529-azure-well-architected-framework-designing-mission-critical-workloads-in-practice) - [Generating code with Angular schematics](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/129-generating-code-with-angular-schematics) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Best Paying Jobs in Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/256-best-paying-jobs-in-technology)