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Skyline is Building Better Together Come join us at Skyline Construction, a leader in commercial interior construction founded in 1996. Today, Skyline operates multiple offices located throughout California, Washington, and Illinois. Skyline is 100% employee-owned, and has been recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for the past 5 years. We believe that we are “building better together.” What’s in it for you?
The Senior Systems Engineer can be based out of Skyline Construction's office location in Bellevue, Washington, Chicago, Illinios or Phoenix, Arizona. This person is responsible for the design, implementation, security, and ongoing operation of Skyline's enterprise systems, cloud platforms, identity services, server infrastructure, storage, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities across multiple offices and data center environments.
This role serves as a senior technical leader, owning complex infrastructure, leading modernization initiatives, mentoring technical staff, and partnering with the IT Service Delivery, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient, and reliable services. The role also has responsibility for overseeing and managing an offshore Systems Engineering team. As Senior Systems Engineer, you will serve in the following areas: Systems Architecture & Engineering Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available systems across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Define infrastructure standards, reference architectures, configuration baselines, and lifecycle roadmaps. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. Server, Virtualization & Storage Administer and optimize Windows and Linux server environments, virtualization platforms, and supporting infrastructure. Manage compute, storage, and related capacity to meet business performance, availability, and growth requirements.
Plan and execute server upgrades, migrations, consolidations, and technology refresh initiatives with minimal disruption. Cloud & Microsoft Platform Services Engineer and support Azure and Microsoft 365 services within a secure hybrid operating model. Administer Entra ID, Active Directory, Group Policy, domain services, authentication, and role-based access controls. Partner with application owners and service providers to improve platform integration, availability, and supportability.
Identity & Access Management Administer and maintain identity providers (Okta, Entra ID/Azure AD, Active Directory), including SSO, MFA, and conditional access policies Design and manage role-based access control (RBAC) models, entitlements, and least-privilege access across enterprise systems Build and maintain automated user lifecycle workflows — onboarding, role changes, and offboarding — with SCIM/API-based provisioning Integrate SaaS and internal applications with SSO using SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OIDC Manage privileged access (PAM), including admin account governance, credential vaulting, and just-in-time elevation Conduct periodic access reviews and user access certifications to support audit and compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) Monitor identity-related events and support incident response for account compromise, privilege misuse, and anomalous authentication activity Document IAM standards, procedures, and administrator policies; partner with Security, HR, and Legal on access governance Serve as escalation point for complex authentication and authorization issues Security, Hardening & Compliance Implement secure configuration standards and user provisioning, least-privilege access, multifactor authentication, system hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
Own operating system and infrastructure patch management, including testing, deployment, exception tracking, and reporting. Collaborate with Cybersecurity to support audits, incident response, security investigations, a