[Hiring] Sr Systems Engineer @Nexus Technologies LLC

Role Description

The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for leading and supporting Modern Work migration engagements for customers modernizing collaboration, messaging, identity, and endpoint management platforms. This role works directly with customers and internal delivery teams to assess current environments, define migration strategies, and implement successful transitions across Modern Work workloads including:

• Microsoft Exchange Online
• SharePoint Online
• Teams
• OneDrive
• Intune
• Microsoft Entra ID

The ideal candidate brings strong project delivery skills and hands-on experience planning and executing Modern Work migrations. This individual understands how to move organizations from legacy on-premises, private cloud Microsoft platforms into modern collaboration and productivity environments while balancing user experience, technical risk, security, and compliance requirements.

The role requires strong customer communication, collaboration across engineering and project teams, and practical experience with Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations, collaboration workloads, identity, and endpoint management. Experience with Microsoft 365 government cloud environments and Microsoft Azure SaaS workloads is strongly preferred.

This position is part of NexusTek’s Professional Services organization, which includes specialized Engineering Practice Teams and a comprehensive Project Management Office. The primary focus of the role is to deliver Modern Work migration consulting and lead technical implementation services throughout the project lifecycle.

As business needs require, the Senior Systems Engineer may also support:

• Discovery
• Solution design
• Migration planning
• Pre-sales activities
• Process improvement initiatives for Modern Work and regulated cloud engagements

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years delivering Modern Work, collaboration, messaging, identity, or endpoint modernization projects using Microsoft technologies.
• Demonstrated experience migrating and supporting Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Microsoft Entra ID, and Intune.
• Practical experience with tenant-to-tenant migrations, hybrid coexistence scenarios, cutover planning, and post-migration remediation.
• Strong knowledge of Modern Work security, compliance, and governance concepts including Conditional Access, retention, data protection, and administrative controls.
• Hands-on experience with identity architecture and authentication services, including Microsoft Entra ID, federation, single sign-on, directory synchronization, and hybrid identity scenarios.
• Experience integrating Modern Work and identity solutions with MFA and security platforms such as Microsoft Defender, Entra Conditional Access, Duo, Okta, and similar third-party access management or security technologies.
• Experience with migration and administration tooling such as native Microsoft migration capabilities, PowerShell, and third-party migration platforms.
• Experience with Azure services relevant to Modern Work and migration projects, including identity integration, virtual networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure dependencies.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into clear migration plans, customer communications, documentation, and operational handoff materials.
• Experience working in or supporting Microsoft 365 GCC or GCC High environments, including awareness of sovereign cloud constraints, compliance drivers, and workload limitations, is strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Actively drive Modern Work migration projects to successful outcomes by engaging customers and internal teams as a lead engineer and trusted advisor.
• Lead discovery sessions to understand current-state platforms, business objectives, compliance drivers, user impact, and migration dependencies.
• Work with project management and delivery teams to ensure migration plans, milestones, risks, and technical deliverables remain aligned and executable.
• Develop practical migration approaches that address mailbox, file, collaboration, identity, device, and security workloads with minimal business disruption.
• Support pilot migrations, user readiness activities, cutover events, and post-migration issue resolution.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, runbooks, configuration records, and transition materials for implemented solutions.
• Participate in sales discovery to validate requirements, shape scope, identify assumptions and risks, and recommend migration strategies for Modern Work engagements.
• Review and provide input on Statements of Work (SOWs) for technical accuracy, migration feasibility, assumptions, risks, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Sales and Project Management from pre-sales through delivery to ensure the engagement is set up for a successful outcome.
• Lead customer discussions that connect migration decisions to security, compliance, adoption, and long-term operational goals.
• Maintain familiarity with structured delivery methodologies and adapt to fast-paced customer environments with strong judgment and just-in-time learning.

Benefits

• Four weeks of annual accrued PTO
• Seven paid national holidays
• Medical, dental, vision options
• Company-paid life insurance, short and long-term disability
• Voluntary benefits such as critical illness and accident
• Voluntary Legal Shield and identity theft protection
• Discretionary annual 401k match plan
• Generous employee referral bonus plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to over 90,000+ courses in ADP My Learning
• StandOut employee engagement tools
• Eligible to apply for a Pluralsight license