# Senior Manager, Systems Engineering

**Company:** [Vanta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vanta)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** IT Support
**Salary:** $210k – $247k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** okta workflows, Okta, macOS, Windows, intune, Jamf, itsm, Identity Management, device management, SSO, mcp servers, Vercel, GitHub, atlassian, AI Automation
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Leads a systems engineering team responsible for identity, endpoint management, ITSM, SaaS procurement, and enterprise AI infrastructure. Requires 8+ years in IT or systems engineering and 3+ years managing and developing engineers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of systems engineers and a tech lead.
- Set clear expectations, maintain a high bar, and develop engineers responsible for critical internal systems.
- Own joiner, mover, and leaver automation end to end in Okta Workflows, including API keys and service credentials.
- Build and own device assurance across macOS and Windows, defining OS, browser, and device-state policies.
- Rationalize the ITSM estate and enable trusted self-service.
- Make Corporate Engineering a governed step in SaaS procurement, enforcing SSO and access reviews.
- Own identity, access, and connector infrastructure for the company-wide AI stack, including MCP servers and Vercel.
- Build visibility into work intake and team capacity to support data-driven prioritization.
- Partner with Security, GRC, Finance, and Engineering to create safe self-service guardrails.

## Requirements
- Track record of improving an inherited team through sustained coaching.
- Ability to untangle inherited complexity, unfinished migrations, and over-engineered workflows.
- Enablement-first approach to safe self-service.
- Technical depth to evaluate estimates and distinguish genuine risk from reported progress.
- Hands-on fluency with AI in enterprise tooling, including AI-assisted automation.
- Experience with identity, endpoint management, ITSM, and procurement, or deep expertise in most of these areas with expanding scope.
- Experience operating through influence across partner organizations.
- **8+ years** in IT or systems engineering, including **3+ years** managing and developing engineers.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship.
- Willingness to use AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with employee-only premiums covered for most medical plans.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Health and wellness stipend.
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
- Commuter benefits for team members reporting to the San Francisco and New York City offices.
- Family planning benefits.
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
- Flexible PTO, plus 80 hours of sick time.
- 11 company-paid holidays.
- Virtual team-building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events.

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