Senior Systems Engineer at Aprio
Overland Park, KS
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Jul 15, 2026
Overland Park, KS
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role responsible for owning the operational health of one or two infrastructure domains — such as server platforms, virtualization, cloud, or identity — within a large professional services firm. Day-to-day work spans major incident leadership, patching and disaster recovery programs, monitoring and observability, cross-team initiatives, and pushing operations toward automation and codified standards. Suits an experienced infrastructure engineer comfortable acting as a technical lead, senior on-call escalation, and mentor to less senior colleagues.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 19,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 5,900–29,900
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'Senior Systems Engineer' and is posted under Aprio's Business Operations IT team. The primary day-to-day work is operating and owning infrastructure domains (servers, virtualization, cloud, identity, backup/recovery), leading incident response, and managing patching and DR programs — characteristic of a senior systems/infrastructure operations role (15-1244). However, the preferred qualifications include IaC (Terraform, Bicep, ARM) and scripting automation at scale, which nudge toward software development (15-1252); 15-1244 was chosen because the core scope is operating and maintaining infrastructure rather than building software.
No specific work location is stated in the posting, but the benefits section mentions 'flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options,' so remote=true is applied. The firm has 40 U.S. office locations but no single metro is identified for this role.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is listed under Preferred Qualifications with an explicit 'or equivalent applicable years of experience' escape clause, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Azure is listed under Preferred Qualifications with deep hands-on specifics (compute, networking, storage, identity, RBAC, monitoring); the required qualifications only gate on 'at least one major cloud platform' without naming Azure specifically.
Terraform, Bicep, and ARM are listed together as IaC options under Preferred Qualifications; Terraform is used as the primary name with Bicep and ARM as alternatives since they serve the same IaC purpose in this context.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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