Aprio
Senior Systems Engineer
Atlanta, GA · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$171k-$800kDetected 6 days ago
PythonBashPowerShellAzureCloud PlatformsTerraformPlatform EngineeringIncident ResponseComplianceAccountingCadenceSystems EngineeringHIPAALeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Work with a Top 20 CPA and advisory firm that Accounts for Anything.
- Aprio has 40 U.S. office locations, as well as international office locations and more than 3,200 team members that speak 60+ languages across the globe.
- By bringing together proven expertise, deep understanding, and strategic foresight for fast-growing industries, Aprio ensures clients are prepared for wherever life or business may take them.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Security and Audit: Apply and validate security baselines, lead remediation of high-severity findings, and keep your domains' evidence map current.
- 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.
Requirements
- Experience operating production workloads in at least one major cloud platform.
- Ability to produce clear architecture, operational, and decision documentation that holds up under audit and peer review.
- Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage, identity, RBAC, monitoring).
- 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).
- 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.
- Why work for Aprio: Whether you are just starting out, looking to advance into management or searching for your next leadership role, Aprio offers an opportunity to grow with a future-focused, innovative firm.
- 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).
- Demonstrated experience leading major incidents and disaster recovery exercises.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice to have
- Preferred Qualificatons
Compensation
- You will be rewarded with competitive compensation, industry-leading benefits and a flexible work environment to enjoy work/life balance.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
- Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
- 401k with Profit Sharing
- 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
- Parental Leave - coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
- Top rated wellness program
- Own the operational health of one or two infrastructure domains (e.g., server platforms, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, identity, backup and recovery, specialty business systems).
- Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options
Company info
- Thirty-one fundamental behaviors guide our culture every day ensuring we always deliver an exceptional team-member and client experience.
- We call it the Aprio Way.
- This shared mindset creates lasting relationships between team members and with clients. -
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- EMPLOYER Aprio is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race
- religion
- national origin
- pregnancy
Visa & Work Authorization
- al origin; sex; pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable feder
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