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Job Description
About The Engagement You will be embedded with our anchor CPA firm client, leading their IT engineering function and reporting directly into senior technology leadership. You remain a ForgePath employee with full ForgePath benefits and career development. This is a player-coach role. Roughly half your time is hands-on engineering and architecture across the firm's IT stack — automation, networking, cloud, endpoints, servers. The other half is leading and developing the engineering team: sitting beside a junior engineer to walk through firewall configuration, reviewing work, setting team direction, and translating between the engineering bench and the firm's senior leadership.
Employment:
Full-time, W-2 ForgePath employee
Location:
Hybrid; must be able to maintain a meaningful in-person presence in Winchester, VA Reports to: Direct line into the client's Chief Technology & Information Officer; ForgePath manages employment and career development Responsibilities Leadership and team development (~50%) Lead the client's IT engineering team; mentor and develop engineers through real work Set technical direction and standards for the team's day-to-day operations Communicate clearly upward to the CTIO and practice leads — status, tradeoffs, recommendations in business language Champion practical AI adoption: get the team excited about AI, model thoughtful use, push the firm to use AI as a force-multiplier Help shape engineering practices, review culture, and on-call expectations Hands-on engineering (~50%) Architect and build automation tooling and workflows that improve how the firm's IT operates Engineer infrastructure improvements across the Microsoft cloud (Azure, Entra ID, Intune, Microsoft 365) Design and implement networking changes — firewalls, switches, segmentation Operate confidently across endpoints, servers, and cloud Bring sensible security awareness to everything you ship Required Experience 7+ years in IT engineering, infrastructure, or platform work, with prior team leadership (formal or informal) Broad and current technical fluency across: Microsoft cloud (Azure, Entra ID, Intune, Microsoft 365), networking (firewalls, switches), endpoints, servers, and automation Strong PowerShell or comparable scripting; comfortable building automation end-to-end Demonstrable mentorship history — engineers you have measurably made better Confident communicating with senior leadership; able to translate technical decisions into business language Sound baseline security awareness — you do not need to be a security specialist, but you should not need it explained to you either Preferred Experience Genuine AI enthusiasm and practical use of AI tools (LLMs, agentic workflows, automation copilots) in your own work Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM) CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) Experience in regulated environments (financial services, professional services, healthcare) Prior IT manager or engineering manager experience in a mid-market firm Compensation Base salary $125,000-$135,000, commensurate with experience Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with employer match Paid time off and ForgePath-supported professional development
