Engineering Manager (IT & Infrastructure)Apply Now

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.