IT Systems Engineer, M&A

About This Role Lead technical IT due diligence: assess a company's identity, applications, endpoints, and infrastructure, and brief the deal team on risk and effort before closeFind the gaps between an acquired environment and Anthropic's security model, rate them, and build the mitigations into the integration planDefine the technical integration plan and its requirements: what moves, where it lands, in what order, and what has to be ready on day oneRun the integration: take over administration, migrate people, devices, and data, and retire what's no longer needed, with support from other IT Engineering teams as required.Work with Business Technology, Client Platform, Corporate Network, IT Operations, and Security on their parts of each integrationKeep Corporate Development, Legal, People, Finance, and the acquired company's team clear on where IT standsBuild a repeatable IT M&A playbook and automate as much of it as possible with ClaudeWhen M&A work is light, contribute to core Corporate Systems projects Requirements 8+ years as a hands-on engineer in corporate IT. You have designed and shipped systems, carried out migrations or integrations yourself, and owned at least one area end-to-end, with experience supporting other areas: identity, applications, endpoints, or corporate infrastructureExperience administering enterprise identity and collaboration platforms such as Google Workspace, Slack, and an SSO provider, and working code in Python or similar against their SaaS APIsWorking knowledge of endpoint management and security concepts, enough to lead diligence on an unfamiliar fleetA proven ability to understand an unfamiliar IT environment quickly and deliver a prioritized view of risk to non-specialistsA record of leading technical projects that span several teams and run to a fixed date, while doing much of the engineering yourselfComfort working autonomously, with ambiguity and confidential informationClear communication with executives, legal and corporate development teams, and engineers at acquired companies Preferred Qualifications Prior M&A, carve-out, or company-to-company migration experienceExperience across the full stack: endpoints, systems, applications, and infrastructureHands-on experience managing a device fleet or running an MDMExperience working in or alongside a security teamA record of building tooling that replaces manual IT workUsing Claude or similar tools as a core part of how you work Skills Python Compensation & Benefits $325,000 — $360,000 USD