Senior Systems Engineer, Technology Advisory

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. Discover a top-rated culture, vast growth opportunities and your next big career move with Aprio.

Join Aprio's Technology Advisory team and you will help clients  design, implement, and operate secure, reliable technology environments. Aprio Advisory Group, LLC is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join their dynamic team. 

In this role, you will serve as a technical lead on infrastructure and systems initiatives across client environments. You will partner with stakeholders to assess current-state platforms, design scalable solutions, and drive execution from implementation through steady-state operations. The right candidate brings strong hands-on experience across Windows and/or Linux systems, virtualization, networking fundamentals, identity, and security, along with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and mentor others.

Serve as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and problems; drive root-cause analysis and permanent remediation. 

Design, implement, and maintain Windows and/or Linux server environments (physical, virtual, and cloud-hosted) following security and availability best practices. 

Administer identity and access services (e.g., Active Directory/Azure AD/Entra ID), including group policy, authentication, and privileged access controls. 

Partner with network and security teams to align infrastructure design with segmentation, firewalling, logging, vulnerability management, and compliance requirements. 

Plan and execute system upgrades, patching, and lifecycle activities with minimal downtime; create and validate rollback plans. 

Implement and maintain virtualization and/or container platforms (e.g., VMware/Hyper-V, Kubernetes) and supporting storage and backup services. 

Automate routine administration and deployment tasks using scripting and configuration management (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform). 

Monitor performance and capacity; establish alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks to improve reliability and mean time to resolution (MTTR). 

Maintain secure baselines and remediate noncompliance with IT policies, hardening standards, and audit requirements. 

Lead technical discovery and produce architecture/design documentation; estimate effort, identify risks, and coordinate delivery with cross-functional teams. 

Drive endpoint/server tooling and platform operations including monitoring agents, EDR, backup, and configuration standards across the lifecycle. 

Support hybrid-cloud operations (e.g., Azure/AWS), including networking integration, compute/storage services, and identity/security alignment. 

Mentor junior engineers, contribute to standards and documentation, and continuously improve processes through post-incident reviews and automation.