Systems Engineer - Mergers & Acquisitions Integration

BKF Engineers•Redwood City, CA

About The Position

BKF is a multi-service infrastructure consulting firm serving clients across California, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The Systems Engineer – M&A Integration executes technical integration activities related to mergers and acquisitions, helping onboard acquired companies into BKF’s technology environment. The role focuses primarily on Microsoft 365, identity, collaboration services, security controls, and related cloud technologies. Reporting to the M&A Integration Lead and receiving technical direction from the Senior M&A Technology Integration Engineer, this hands-on position supports multiple acquisitions each year. Work includes migration, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, cutover, and hypercare. The ideal candidate is a technical generalist with strong Microsoft cloud and identity experience who can work independently within established integration architecture, standards, and migration plans.

Requirements

Hands-on experience administering and migrating Microsoft 365 environments, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive.
Experience supporting tenant, email, collaboration-platform, or other enterprise IT migrations.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, identity synchronization, MFA, SSO, and conditional access.
Experience with Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopilot, Configuration Manager, or a comparable endpoint-management platform.
Experience supporting endpoint readiness, device enrollment, application deployment, and user onboarding.
Familiarity with Azure administration, access, permissions, subscriptions, networking concepts, and cloud services.
Ability to troubleshoot across identity, email, collaboration, endpoint, and cloud environments.
Strong PowerShell, documentation, and technical-procedure skills.
Ability to support multiple concurrent acquisition projects and planned after-hours or weekend cutovers.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with internal teams, consultants, vendors, and acquired-company personnel.
Ability to work independently while escalating risks and technical decisions appropriately.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations.
Experience migrating Google Workspace environments to Microsoft platforms.
Experience with migration tools such as BitTitan MigrationWiz, Quest, AvePoint, ShareGate, or comparable solutions.
Experience automating Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Exchange Online, Intune, or Azure activities with PowerShell.
Familiarity with Microsoft Defender, Purview, Sentinel, or related security platforms.
Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, or enterprise onboarding.
Experience working with managed service providers, consultants, or integration vendors.
Familiarity with ITSM, change-management, and technical project-tracking processes.
Relevant Microsoft certifications.

Responsibilities

Execute technical integration activities for acquired companies in accordance with approved architecture, migration plans, and BKF standards.
Perform migrations into BKF’s standard platforms, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive-to-Box migrations.
Support migrations from Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 tenants, and other source environments.
Execute identity and access integration activities involving Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, SSO, MFA, conditional access, provisioning, and account lifecycle management.
Support technical dependencies associated with endpoint deployment, including identity, Intune enrollment, application access, security policies, and user authentication.
Support Azure and related cloud-integration activities when required, including access, permissions, subscriptions, and coordination with Cloud Operations.
Partner with acquired-company IT teams, internal stakeholders, consultants, and vendors to gather technical information and complete integration work.
Follow migration runbooks, cutover plans, validation procedures, rollback plans, and hypercare processes.
Troubleshoot technical issues during migration, cutover, and stabilization.
Support integration of security, compliance, endpoint-protection, and IT-management platforms.
Document source environments, migration activities, configurations, dependencies, risks, and completion status.
Build and improve reusable integration playbooks, standards, checklists, scripts, and automation.
Escalate technical risks, blockers, and design decisions to the Senior M&A Technology Integration Engineer.