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

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