Senior Systems Engineer

Join Aprio's Business Operations Information Technology team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio Advisory Group, LLC is a progressive, fast-groçing firm looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join their dynamic team.

• 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.

• 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 (Power Shell, 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.,…