IT Systems Engineer, M&A

About This Role

• Lead technical IT due diligence: assess a company's identity, applications, endpoints, and infrastructure, and brief the deal team on risk and effort before close
• Find the gaps between an acquired environment and Anthropic's security model, rate them, and build the mitigations into the integration plan
• Define the technical integration plan and its requirements: what moves, where it lands, in what order, and what has to be ready on day one
• Run the integration: take over administration, migrate people, devices, and data, and retire what's no longer needed, with support from other IT Engineering teams as required.
• Work with Business Technology, Client Platform, Corporate Network, IT Operations, and Security on their parts of each integration
• Keep Corporate Development, Legal, People, Finance, and the acquired company's team clear on where IT stands
• Build a repeatable IT M&A playbook and automate as much of it as possible with Claude
• When M&A work is light, contribute to core Corporate Systems projects

Requirements

• 8+ years as a hands-on engineer in corporate IT. You have designed and shipped systems, carried out migrations or integrations yourself, and owned at least one area end-to-end, with experience supporting other areas: identity, applications, endpoints, or corporate infrastructure
• Experience administering enterprise identity and collaboration platforms such as Google Workspace, Slack, and an SSO provider, and working code in Python or similar against their SaaS APIs
• Working knowledge of endpoint management and security concepts, enough to lead diligence on an unfamiliar fleet
• A proven ability to understand an unfamiliar IT environment quickly and deliver a prioritized view of risk to non-specialists
• A record of leading technical projects that span several teams and run to a fixed date, while doing much of the engineering yourself
• Comfort working autonomously, with ambiguity and confidential information
• Clear communication with executives, legal and corporate development teams, and engineers at acquired companies

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior M&A, carve-out, or company-to-company migration experience
• Experience across the full stack: endpoints, systems, applications, and infrastructure
• Hands-on experience managing a device fleet or running an MDM
• Experience working in or alongside a security team
• A record of building tooling that replaces manual IT work
• Using Claude or similar tools as a core part of how you work

Skills Python

Compensation & Benefits $325,000 — $360,000 USD