Senior Systems Engineer - Fort Collins

Salary: $90,000 - 110,000 per year Requirements: Work from our office at least three days per week. Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills; customer service experience is a plus. Bring enterprise-level understanding of change control, documentation, and communication. Have strong experience with Windows Server, multi-site Active Directory, Advanced Group Policy Management, NPS, and RADIUS authentication. Bring deep virtualization experience, primarily with Hyper-V, VMware, clustering technologies, and SAN management. Know VDI and/or session-based desktop design and implementation, such as Citrix or Microsoft RDS. Have solid knowledge of LAN and WAN infrastructure, including IPSec VPN tunnels, VLANs, routing, DHCP/DNS, and SD-WAN. Understand security design and best practices for systems and networks, including multifactor authentication implementation. Have experience designing, architecting, and administering cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. Have at least four years of engineering experience in an MSP environment. Coding or scripting experience with PowerShell, VBScript, or Python is helpful. Reflect our values of honesty, integrity, and continuous improvement, and bring an enthusiastic, empathetic, personable, self-driven approach. Responsibilities: Collaborate with coworkers and vendors, and work directly with clients by phone and email to design and implement varied technical engineering projects. Architect, build, and administer mission-critical server infrastructure, firewalls, and physical and wireless networks. Perform cloud migrations involving Exchange, SharePoint, Entra ID/Intune, and Azure. Administer complex Microsoft 365 environments. Take ownership of issues, projects, and architecture or design work through completion. Create and update internal and client-facing documentation. Participate in an on-call rotation and accommodate flexible on-duty hours, including evenings or weekends for some project activities. Technologies: AWS Active Directory Architect Azure Citrix Cloud Hyper-V LAN Microsoft 365 PowerShell Python Security SharePoint VPN VMware Windows Office 365 Support More: We are Open Approach, a values-driven, client-focused IT services company based in Burlington, Vermont, serving organizations across New England and beyond. This Senior Systems Engineer role is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, and focuses primarily on delivering complex client projects, technical solutions, and design and architecture work. We build long-term partnerships through trust, transparency, practical solutions, and a commitment to client success. Our values include equity, humility, excellence, accountability, innovation, and openness. Compensation is commensurate with experience. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage with generous employer contributions; company-sponsored life and short- and long-term disability coverage; a 401(k) with a 4% match starting on day one; PTO starting at 16 days plus paid holidays; fully paid parental leave; a smartphone stipend for the on-call rotation; and weekly company lunches, coffee, snacks, and a pet-friendly office. last updated 43 week of 2026