Senior IT Operations Lead: Endpoints & Business Systems

Equitymethods; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Equity Methods is seeking a Senior System Administrator to own and operate the firm’s platforms and endpoints, supporting key business apps, the laptops teams use, and identity controls that protect client data.

This hands-on role drives the transition from a virtual desktop environment to trusted laptops, maintains SOC 1/2 evidence, and partners with non-technical colleagues to prevent issues and improve security and governance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in system administration or IT operations.
• Hands-on with Microsoft Intune and M365/Entra including conditional access and identity governance.
• Experience with Jamf for macOS/iPad management.
• Experience administering SaaS business platforms such as Monday.com, Jira, HubSpot.

Responsibilities

• Administer core business platforms: provisioning, permissions, workspace structure, integrations, and license management.
• Manage Claude access and spending controls: seat provisioning, group membership, usage limits, and cost monitoring against budget.
• Own Microsoft Intune administration for the Windows fleet and Jamf administration for Macs and iPads, covering enrollment, compliance policies, configuration profiles, application deployment, and patching.
• Build and operate the trusted laptop program: device baselines, encryption, conditional access enrollment, and lifecycle management from provisioning through decommission.
• Support the VDI-to-laptop transition operationally including imaging, migrations, user onboarding, and the exceptions that inevitably follow.
• Administer M365 and Entra identity: SSO, group management, conditional access, and license assignment. Own onboarding and offboarding execution end to end.
• Administer OneDrive and SharePoint governance: storage policies, retention, and external-sharing controls appropriate to a firm handling client data.
• Automate repetitive administrative work using PowerShell or Python to accelerate onboarding and offboarding steps, reporting, license reconciliation, and compliance evidence collection.
• Monitor security alerting across M365 Defender, Intune, and endpoint tooling. Triage with judgment, investigate events, and escalation with a clear read on severity.
• Execute ISMS automation work in Vanta and own technical evidence collection for SOC 1 and SOC 2 (access reviews, device compliance, patch records, and offboarding logs).
• Surface control gaps and access drift proactively, before they become audit findings.

Skills

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft 365/Entra

Jamf for macOS/iPad

SaaS platforms administration

PowerShell / Python scripting

SOC 1/2 evidence collection

Security monitoring & incident triage

Tools

Monday.com

Jira

HubSpot

OneDrive

SharePoint

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Equity Methods is seeking a Senior System Administrator to own and operate the firm’s platforms and endpoints, supporting key business apps, the laptops teams use, and identity controls that protect client data.

This hands-on role drives the transition from a virtual desktop environment to trusted laptops, maintains SOC 1/2 evidence, and partners with non-technical colleagues to prevent issues and improve security and governance.