Engineering Systems Engineer

About the role

The Engineering Systems Engineer is the hands-on technical operator at the center of how the Engineering organization's tools, platforms, and standards work every day.

Responsibilities

• Azure DevOps Administration & Governance
• Owns day-to-day administration of Azure DevOps across the Engineering organization — managing organizations, projects, teams, repositories, pipelines, boards, area paths, iteration cadences, and access controls with the consistency, precision, and configuration hygiene that a multi-team Engineering organization depends on.
• Manages Azure DevOps user provisioning, permission models, and access reviews — ensuring access is scoped to least-privilege principles, regularly audited, promptly revoked when no longer needed, and documented to support compliance evidence requirements.
• Maintains Azure DevOps platform health, usage patterns, and adoption metrics — proactively identifying configuration drift, underutilized capabilities, permission anomalies, and opportunities to improve how Engineering teams use the platform before those gaps create friction or risk.
• Serves as the escalation point for Azure DevOps configuration issues — diagnosing platform-level incidents, working with Microsoft support when required, and resolving disruptions with the urgency that a platform used by every engineer in the organization demands.
• Leverages AI tools to accelerate platform analysis and administration work — including AI-assisted pipeline configuration review, AI-generated access audit summaries, and LLM-assisted platform documentation that keeps configuration records current without proportional manual overhead.
• LaunchDarkly Administration & Feature Flag Governance
• Owns the administration and governance of LaunchDarkly across the engineering organization — managing projects, environments, user roles, access controls, SDK integrations, API configurations, and webhook connections with operational discipline and consistent configuration standards.
• Administers flag lifecycle governance — applying and enforcing the flag creation policies, naming conventions, targeting rules, retirement processes, and cleanup standards defined by the Engineering Systems Manager, and proactively identifying flags that are stale, misconfigured, or creating technical debt in the flag inventory.
• Pairs with the Release Workflow Manager and Engineering teams to ensure feature flags are correctly configured and sequenced within each release cycle — supporting progressive delivery strategies and controlled rollout configurations that match the release plan without requiring last-minute flag adjustments.
• Maintains SDK integration health across connected systems — identifying evaluation errors, SDK version drift, and integration anomalies that affect flag reliability across environments, and resolves issues before they impact release operations.
• Builds and maintains LaunchDarkly enablement resources — including flag hygiene guides, SDK integration references, targeting configuration patterns, and best practice documentation — that empower Engineering teams to work with feature flags correctly and independently.
• Flyway Administration & Database Migration Standards
• Owns the administration and governance of Flyway across the Engineering organization — managing versioning conventions, environment-specific configurations, and migration execution monitoring with the operational rigor that database changes in production environments require.
• Applies and enforces database migration standards defined by the Engineering Systems Manager — including script naming conventions, version sequencing requirements, migration review checklists, and rollback documentation standards — and identify deviations from those standards before migrations are promoted to production environments.
• Pairs with Engineering teams to ensure Flyway migrations are authored, reviewed, and promoted in alignment with release workflow standards — validating migration execution in lower environments and confirming that rollback documentation is complete and tested before production promotion proceeds.
• Maintains visibility into migration execution health across all environments — maintaining visibility into migration history execution outcomes, failure patterns, and schema state that supports rapid diagnosis and resolution when migration-related issues occur.
• Identifies and implements automation improvements to the database migration workflow — including CI/CD pipeline steps that automate migration validation, execution monitoring, and failure alerting in ways that reduce manual effort and deployment risk.
• Cursor & AI-Assisted Development Tooling
• Owns the provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration governance of Cursor and other AI assisted development tools across the Engineering organization — ensuring every engineer has consistent, reliable, policy-compliant access to AI development capabilities with zero unnecessary friction.
• Manages licensing, seat allocation, and renewal tracking for Cursor and related AI tooling — maintaining accurate records of seat usage, identifying optimization opportunities, and flagging renewal timelines to the Engineering Systems Manager before they become urgent.
• Establishes and maintains configuration standards for Cursor across the Engineering organization — including workspace settings, AI model configurations, extension integrations, and data handling policy compliance — ensuring the AI tooling environment is consistent across engineering teams and aligned with security requirements.
• Maintains AI tool adoption and usage across Engineering teams — identifying low-adoption patterns, diagnosing root causes (tooling friction, awareness gaps, onboarding deficiencies), and designing targeted enablement interventions that move the needle on adoption and productivity impact.
• Stays current on Cursor updates, new capabilities, configuration best practices, and emerging AI development tooling — proactively testing new features, evaluating their applicability to the Engineering organization, and bringing actionable recommendations to the Engineering Systems Manager before the broader Engineering organization asks.
• Uses AI tooling actively in platform administration work — leveraging Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate automation scripting, platform analysis, configuration review, and documentation production across the Engineering Systems function.
• Engineering Standards Administration
• Serves as the operational executor of the Engineering standards program — maintaining, publishing, formatting, and distributing standards documentation for coding conventions, branching strategies, pullrequest practices, code review requirements, and tooling usage as directed by the Engineering Systems Manager.
• Owes the standards repository — ensuring documentation is accurately organized, consistently formatted, discoverable through the Engineering knowledge base, and immediately updated when standards are ratified or revised.
• Maintains Engineering standards adherence across teams — identifying non-compliance patterns in code reviews, pipeline configurations, branch naming, and tooling usage, and bringing specific, data-backed observations to the Engineering Systems Manager and relevant Engineering Managers for follow-through.
• Maintains environment setup guides, tooling provisioning checklists, and standards orientation materials that are current, complete, and effective enough to be executed without handholding.
• Sustains standards retrospectives led by the Engineering Systems Manager — collecting adherence data, synthesizing engineering team feedback, and preparing materials that make retrospective sessions productive rather than anecdotal.
• Access Management, Security & Compliance
• Maintains access control governance across all administered platforms — including Azure DevOps, LaunchDarkly, Flyway, and Cursor — executing provisioning and de-provisioning requests promptly, enforcing least-privilege access principles, and maintaining accurate access records that support audit evidence requirements.
• Conducts and documents regular access reviews across administered platforms — identifying over-provisioned accounts, stale access grants, and access policy violations, and resolving them in partnership with the Engineering Systems Manager and Security team.
• Maintains accurate, current platform configuration records, access inventories, and change histories across all administered systems — treating audit evidence as an ongoing operational discipline rather than a pre-audit scramble.
• Partners with the Security team on access-related incidents, policy enforcement actions, and configuration hardening requirements — responding to security requests with urgency and implementing hardening changes with the precision that security controls require.
• Uses AI tools to accelerate access review, compliance documentation, and configuration audit work — including AI-assisted access inventory analysis, AI generated compliance evidence summaries, and LLM-assisted Tooling configuration documentation that maintains audit readiness without proportional manual effort.
• Automation, Improvement & Enablement
• Continuously identifies and eliminates manual administration toil across the Engineering Systems platform portfolio — building automation scripts, pipeline integrations, and workflow improvements that replace repetitive manual steps with reliable, auditable automated processes.
• Buils and maintains internal enablement resources — including training guides, how-to documentation, FAQs, configuration references, and onboarding materials — that empower Engineering teams to use administered platforms correctly and independently, reducing the volume of repetitive support requests.
• Develops and maintains monitoring and alerting for administered platform health — including Azure DevOps pipeline health, LaunchDarkly SDK evaluation errors, Flyway migration failures, and AI tooling provisioning issues — so that platform degradation is detected and resolved proactively rather than reactively.
• Tracks platform health, adoption metrics, support request trends, and standards compliance across administered systems — maintaining the operational data that the Engineering Systems Manager needs to report accurately to the Director of Engineering Systems and to make informed investment decisions.

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT Operations, DevOps, or similar technical roles.
• Proven experience with Azure DevOps, LaunchDarkly, Flyway, and Cursor or similar AI-assisted development tools.
• Strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure, database management, and software development methodologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and continuous integration.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing requirements.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with database management tools.

Preferred:

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI.
• Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration technologies.
• Experience with DevSecOps principles and practices.
• Experience with security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST 800-53.

Skills

• Technical proficiency with Azure DevOps, LaunchDarkly, Flyway, and Cursor or similar AI-assisted development tools.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and continuous integration.
• Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure, database management, and software development methodologies.
• Experience with security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST 800-53.

Benefits

Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, wellness reimbursement, life insurance, and a 401(k) with company match.

Pay

Starting base pay for this role is between $100,000 and $122,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skills, work experience, business needs, training, location, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Schedule

This role will be eligible for a bonus as well as competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, wellness reimbursement, life insurance, and a 401(k) with company match.