Senior Systems Engineer — Cloud & Automation Lead (Remote)

Arnold & Porter; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Remote work in approved U.S. state

Job summary

Arnold & Porter is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to modernize and support the global infrastructure behind our legal practice. This senior, hands-on leader will work across on-premises, colocation, hybrid, and Azure environments, driving migrations, automation, and reliability.

You will mentor colleagues, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with Architecture, Network Engineering, Information Security, and apps teams. The role may be fully remote in a firm-approved U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure engineering.
• 5+ years as senior engineer or technical lead.
• Advanced PowerShell engineering and automation ownership.
• Strong automation practices: VCS, tests, release management.
• Windows Server/AD, DNS, DHCP, DFS, virtualization, and hybrid identity.
• Azure IaaS, migration tools, RBAC, monitoring, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure implementations from requirements to deployment and support.
• Advance Azure environment with compute, storage, identity, monitoring, and security.
• Plan and execute migrations across on-premises and Azure platforms.
• Develop automation and infrastructure-as-code with secure, maintainable code.
• Support core enterprise platforms and ensure reliability and recovery.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for production issues.
• Apply security hardening and governance in delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and coordinate dependencies across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

PowerShell

Terraform

Bicep

Ansible

Git

Docker

Python

Pester

Azure Kubernetes Service

Job description

Arnold & Porter is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to modernize and support the global infrastructure behind our legal practice. This senior, hands-on leader will work across on-premises, colocation, hybrid, and Azure environments, driving migrations, automation, and reliability.

You will mentor colleagues, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with Architecture, Network Engineering, Information Security, and apps teams. The role may be fully remote in a firm-approved U.S.