Senior Systems Engineer

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We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.

About Our Team The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning News and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

Why This Role Matters Why This Role Matters The Senior Systems Engineer helps keep The Washington Post’s identity, collaboration, endpoint, and core IT service platforms secure, reliable, and available.

This role serves as a senior technical resource for Identity and Access Management, supporting Active Directory, Okta, single sign-on, and automated user-lifecycle processes.

Through hands-on systems engineering, administration, integration, and automation, this role improves the reliability and efficiency of technology services used across the organization.

Working with IT Operations, Cybersecurity, Legal, Compliance, HR, and other partners, this role helps translate operational and security requirements into practical technical solutions.

As an individual contributor, this role provides technical guidance and project leadership but does not have formal people-management responsibilities.

What Motivates You You enjoy solving complex systems and infrastructure problems through careful analysis and hands-on technical work.

You are interested in identity management, enterprise platforms, automation, and secure service delivery.

You look for practical ways to reduce manual work, improve reliability, and strengthen operational controls.

You take pride in building solutions that are documented, supportable, and sustainable for the broader team.

You are comfortable responding to immediate operational needs while continuing to improve the underlying systems and processes.

You enjoy collaborating with cybersecurity professionals, administrators, engineers, and business partners to solve shared problems.

You value sharing your knowledge and helping colleagues develop their technical capabilities.

How You’ll Support the Mission Administer and improve Identity and Access Management services, including Active Directory, Okta, single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and role-based access, supporting secure and reliable access to enterprise systems.

Design and implement automated provisioning, deprovisioning, and access-change workflows within established security and platform standards, improving the accuracy and timeliness of identity administration.

Develop and maintain integrations among platforms such as Workday, Okta, Active Directory, Google Workspace, Proofpoint, and Service Now, improving the consistency of data and service workflows.

Engineer and support assigned enterprise platforms, which may include Google Workspace, storage and collaboration services, endpoint-management tools, asset-management systems, and ITSM platforms, maintaining reliable day-to-day operations.

Use APIs, scripting, and systems-management tools to automate recurring administrative and operational processes, reducing manual effort and preventable errors.

Troubleshoot complex incidents involving identity, access, integrations, endpoints, systems administration, and enterprise applications, restoring service and identifying corrective actions.

Partner with Cybersecurity and Compliance to implement approved security configurations, access controls, and remediation plans, reducing…