Senior IT Systems & Support Engineer

Halcyon Financial Technology, L.P.; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Targeted 30% bonus quarterly

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Travel/commuter reimbursement

4 weeks PTO and 10 holidays

Paid certifications and exam fees

Cell phone and internet stipend

Charitable tech donations quarterly

Monthly regional team events

All-expenses-paid company-wide offsite

Job summary

Halcyon Financial Technology, L.P. seeks a Senior IT Systems & Support Engineer for the Bay Area. This hybrid role supports clients onsite and remotely, handling a broad range of IT challenges with professional judgment.

You will provide high-touch, personalized technical support and proactive solutions to ensure a seamless client experience across cloud and on-prem systems.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise cloud platforms and security
• Ability to troubleshoot complex IT issues across multiple services
• Proactive approach to client-facing support and documentation

Responsibilities

• Administer Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace users, licenses, and policies
• Resolve complex email, collaboration, and file-sharing issues using audit data
• Manage identity, access, and onboarding/offboarding with SSO and MFA
• Build automation to reduce repetitive provisioning and admin work
• Manage cloud-native endpoints and enforce security baselines via Intune
• Investigate security alerts, drive remediation, and support audits

Tools

Microsoft 365

Google Workspace

Intune

Azure

PowerShell

Python

Microsoft Entra ID

SSO (SAML, OAuth, SCIM)

MFA

CrowdStrike

Job description

Compensation: $100,000 - $130,000 / year

Department: Support Engineer

Location: West Coast

Description

We are hiring a full-time Senior IT Systems & Support Engineer in the Bay Area with an focus on the Palo Alto Area. This hybrid role plays a critical part in supporting multiple clients both onsite and remotely. It requires the ability to handle a wide range of problems with expertise and exceptional judgment while working with end users at the highest levels of their organizations.

We are looking for professionals who provide high-touch, personalized technical support and proactive solutions that ensure a seamless and exceptional experience for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace

• Administer Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, including users, licenses, policies, and third-party SaaS integrations
• Resolve complex email, collaboration, and file-sharing issues, using service health and audit data to catch problems before users do

Identity & Access Management

• Manage identity and access across our cloud platforms, including single sign-on, MFA, conditional access, and least-privilege, role-based access
• Own secure onboarding, role changes, and offboarding, and troubleshoot authentication, federation, and app access issues

AI & Automation

• Build automation that eliminates repetitive provisioning, reporting, and admin work
• Use approved AI tools to speed up troubleshooting and documentation, and help shape how we govern their use

Endpoint Management

• Manage cloud-native endpoints from enrollment through retirement
• Deploy applications, configuration and compliance policies, security baselines, and encryption through Intune

Cybersecurity & Compliance

• Maintain security controls across cloud, email, endpoints, and SaaS, including data loss prevention, retention, and alerting
• Investigate alerts and incidents, drive remediation, and support vulnerability management, hardening, and audits
• Third-party risk management, cybersecurity policy management, business continuity and governance

Cloud Networking

• Support the network behind a distributed, cloud-first workforce: DNS, DHCP, VPN, Wi-Fi, firewalls, and secure remote access
• Diagnose connectivity and performance issues between users, devices, and cloud services, and maintain firewall policies and segmentation

Systems Administration & Cloud Operations

• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for major outages and recurring issues
• Plan and deliver changes, upgrades, and migrations end to end, backed by clear runbooks and documentation

Key Technologies

• Cloud & Productivity: Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive), Google Workspace
• Identity & Access: Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), SSO (SAML, OAuth, SCIM)
• Endpoint Management: Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows 11, macOS, iOS, Windows 365 Cloud PCs, Mosyle
• Security & Compliance: CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Guardian, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Mimecast, Microsoft Purview,
• Automation & AI: Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, PowerShell, Python, Microsoft Graph, Power Automate, REST APIs
• Networking: Cisco Meraki
• IT Operations: ConnectWise RMM and PSA, Automox, IT Glue, Monday.com
• Infrastructure & Backup: Microsoft Azure, CloudAlly
• Collaboration & Business Apps: Slack, Zoom and Zoom Phone, DocuSign, Global Relay, PrinterLogic

Benefits

• $100,000 - $130,000 + Targeted 30% Bonus Paid Quarterly
• Best-In-Class Benefits: medical, dental, vison, HSA, Dependent Care FSA
• Travel/commuter reimbursement
• 4 weeks PTO and 10 paid holidays
• Paid certifications and exam fees
• Cell phone and internet stipend
• Giving Back: Each quarter, HalcyonFT donates to a tech-focused charity
• Monthly regional team events
• Annual all-expenses-paid, company-wide Holiday Weekend offsite