Senior Systems Engineer

Aprio•Overland Park, KS

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Aprio Advisory Group, LLC is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join their dynamic team. 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. Discover a top-rated culture, vast growth opportunities and your next big career move with Aprio. Join Aprio's Business Operations Information Technology team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.
Lead major incident response: drive technical resolution, coordinate responders, communicate to stakeholders, and own the post-incident review and corrective actions.
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.
Drive capacity planning, refresh cycles, configuration baselines, and decommissioning of legacy systems.
Operate and improve monitoring and observability across managed systems — tune alerting, eliminate noise, build dashboards, and contribute to anomaly-detection and AIOps initiatives.
Lead initiatives that span Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Networking, and application teams — controlled rollouts, hardening efforts, platform migrations. Land them without breaking production.
Define and document operational patterns, runbooks, and standards the team executes against and the auditors review.
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.
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.
Provide operational ownership of specialty business systems and legacy platforms supporting business-critical applications.
Apply and validate security baselines, lead remediation of high-severity findings, and keep your domains' evidence map current.
Push toward repeatable, codified operations (IaC, automated evidence collection, scripted runbooks) instead of one-off manual work.
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.

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
Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
Top rated wellness program
Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options