Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Location: St. Louis, Missouri (Remote)

Role Overview

This employer is seeking a Senior Principal Systems Engineer to join a robust technology organization focused on endpoints, applications, devices, connectivity, and security. In this highly visible role, you will serve as a senior technical leader and architect, defining the holistic technical vision and driving modernization strategy across virtual engineering teams. This position requires no direct reports but demands exceptional leadership, mentoring capabilities, and stakeholder engagement from engineering teams up through executive leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy and architectural decisions for core business and workforce technology platforms.

• Design and implement scalable solutions spanning cloud, identity, security, productivity, and endpoint technologies.

• Own the holistic technical vision, creating reusable architecture patterns and engineering standards.

• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to develop roadmaps, ensure operational health, and deliver technology excellence.

• Present complex technical topics, strategic recommendations, and business cases to stakeholders up to the executive level to gain organizational buy-in.

• Mentor and grow senior technical talent across virtual and distributed engineering teams.

• Ensure security, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across all solutions.

• Commit to incorporating security practices into all decisions and daily engineering responsibilities.

• Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or a related field preferred.

• Experience: 11 or more years of software, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership in designing distributed systems and scalable architectures.

• Technical Skills

• Deep expertise across Microsoft Azure (platform identity, endpoint, security, Office 365, MFA, SSO, and Entra ID), strong enterprise identity and cybersecurity background, and experience designing high-throughput endpoint systems and real-time services.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) platforms.

• Familiarity with observability and analytics tools such as Splunk.

• Strong operational understanding of networking principles.

• Professional consulting background within a Big Four or similar advisory environment.

• Work Environment

• This position offers a fully remote arrangement within the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Selected team members must maintain an adequate home office space and work within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours. The role requires occasional travel to the St. Louis campus location, approximately two to three times per year, for meetings, initial onboarding, and annual leadership conferences.

• Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Benefits

• Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our Welcome Packet as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

• Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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