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At Justworks, you'll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We're helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We're data-driven and never stop iterating. If you'd like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we'd love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
Who You Are
As a senior systems engineer, you possess extensive expertise in entrepreneurial, startup, or enterprise settings. You provide top-tier, "white-glove" support for stakeholders tailored to their specific needs. You excel in researching technical problems and solutions with a high level of professionalism.
In this role, you take charge of the technical design, planning, implementation, and performance tuning for critical enterprise application systems. While you are the primary architect and owner for our core collaboration stack, you are a versatile engineer capable of managing a broad and diverse ecosystem of tools. You lead by example as a technical expert and serve as a mentor to junior systems engineers.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Core Platform Architecture: Act as the primary architect and administrator for our core enterprise platforms: Atlassian suite (Jira & Confluence), Google Workspace, and Slack.
- SaaS and AI Enablement: Lead the technical strategy for enterprise-wide SaaS adoption and optimization. You will drive the roadmap for enabling AI-native capabilities across our ecosystem (e.g., Slack AI, Atlassian AI) to streamline workflows, boost employee productivity, and increase organizational velocity.
- Ecosystem Management: Administer, configure, and troubleshoot a diverse catalog of 30+ SaaS platforms. You will use SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs) to maintain visibility, optimize licenses, and ensure system health across the entire stack.
- AI-Driven Velocity: Act as an early adopter and champion of AI tools to accelerate the transition of ideas into concepts and concepts into executed solutions.
- Automation: Support in maintaining and improving user lifecycle workflows (onboarding/offboarding).
- Audits & Optimization: Conduct regular audits of SaaS environments to identify improvements, optimize resource utilization, and enhance security posture.
- Documentation: Develop and maintain "source of truth" documentation for supported applications and processes for both internal employees and IT staff.
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and "bar-raising" performance.
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Senior IT Systems Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
- Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
- Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what's in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism. Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You're an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You're curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You're committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You're honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of professional IT Systems experience in a fast-paced environment supporting a hybrid/distributed workforce.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Extensive, hands-on experience with the administration and architecture of Jira, Confluence, Google Workspace, and Slack.
- SMP Proficiency: Ideal candidates will have experience using SaaS Management Platforms (e.g., Productiv, Lumos, Torii, etc.) to manage a wide catalog of tools.
- AI Fluency: Demonstrated interest or experience in using AI tools to increase engineering velocity and automate manual thinking.
- IAM: Proficiency in Okta is a significant plus to support IGA (identity governance and administration) and user lifecycle initiatives.
- Supportive Mindset: Experience supporting infrastructure and automation teams without needing to own those specific domains.
- Versatility: Proven ability to manage and support a wide range of SaaS platforms (30+) beyond the core stack.
- Adaptability: You learn fast, are not afraid of technical details, and are motivated to understand every aspect of the products you support.
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $127,000.00 to $139,700.00 per year.
Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
For more information about Justworks' Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.
Diversity At Justworks
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
Who We Are
At Justworks, you'll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We're helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We're data-driven and never stop iterating. If you'd like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we'd love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
Who You Are
As a senior systems engineer, you possess extensive expertise in entrepreneurial, startup, or enterprise settings. You provide top-tier, "white-glove" support for stakeholders tailored to their specific needs. You excel in researching technical problems and solutions with a high level of professionalism.
In this role, you take charge of the technical design, planning, implementation, and performance tuning for critical enterprise application systems. While you are the primary architect and owner for our core collaboration stack, you are a versatile engineer capable of managing a broad and diverse ecosystem of tools. You lead by example as a technical expert and serve as a mentor to junior systems engineers.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Core Platform Architecture: Act as the primary architect and administrator for our core enterprise platforms: Atlassian suite (Jira & Confluence), Google Workspace, and Slack.
- SaaS and AI Enablement: Lead the technical strategy for enterprise-wide SaaS adoption and optimization. You will drive the roadmap for enabling AI-native capabilities across our ecosystem (e.g., Slack AI, Atlassian AI) to streamline workflows, boost employee productivity, and increase organizational velocity.
- Ecosystem Management: Administer, configure, and troubleshoot a diverse catalog of 30+ SaaS platforms. You will use SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs) to maintain visibility, optimize licenses, and ensure system health across the entire stack.
- AI-Driven Velocity: Act as an early adopter and champion of AI tools to accelerate the transition of ideas into concepts and concepts into executed solutions.
- Automation: Support in maintaining and improving user lifecycle workflows (onboarding/offboarding).
- Audits & Optimization: Conduct regular audits of SaaS environments to identify improvements, optimize resource utilization, and enhance security posture.
- Documentation: Develop and maintain "source of truth" documentation for supported applications and processes for both internal employees and IT staff.
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and "bar-raising" performance.
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Senior IT Systems Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
- Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
- Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what's in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism. Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You're an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You're curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You're committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You're honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of professional IT Systems experience in a fast-paced environment supporting a hybrid/distributed workforce.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Extensive, hands-on experience with the administration and architecture of Jira, Confluence, Google Workspace, and Slack.
- SMP Proficiency: Ideal candidates will have experience using SaaS Management Platforms (e.g., Productiv, Lumos, Torii, etc.) to manage a wide catalog of tools.
- AI Fluency: Demonstrated interest or experience in using AI tools to increase engineering velocity and automate manual thinking.
- IAM: Proficiency in Okta is a significant plus to support IGA (identity governance and administration) and user lifecycle initiatives.
- Supportive Mindset: Experience supporting infrastructure and automation teams without needing to own those specific domains.
- Versatility: Proven ability to manage and support a wide range of SaaS platforms (30+) beyond the core stack.
- Adaptability: You learn fast, are not afraid of technical details, and are motivated to understand every aspect of the products you support.
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $127,000.00 to $139,700.00 per year.
Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
For more information about Justworks' Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.
Diversity At Justworks
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an IT Engineer
Align your credentials with PERM requirements
PERM certifies a specific job description, not a general skill set. Make sure your degree field and job duties match the employer's certified role exactly, discrepancies between your transcript and the PERM application are a common cause of RFE delays.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search DOL OFLC disclosure data to identify companies that have previously filed PERM applications for IT Engineer roles. Employers already familiar with the process move faster and are less likely to abandon sponsorship mid-filing.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility before applying
EB-2 requires a position needing an advanced degree or a candidate with strong credentials; EB-3 covers bachelor's-level roles. For IT Engineer positions, the job posting's stated minimum degree requirement determines which category PERM certifies under, so confirm this before negotiating your offer.
Find green card sponsors through Migrate Mate
Filter IT Engineer roles by employers with verified green card sponsorship history on Migrate Mate. Targeting companies that have completed PERM and I-140 filings for similar roles cuts the uncertainty out of your job search from day one.
Negotiate I-140 filing timing in your offer
Your priority date locks in only when USCIS receives the I-140 petition. Ask your employer to commit to filing I-140 promptly after PERM certification, not months later. For applicants from high-backlog countries, each month of delay extends your total wait significantly.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting a role
DOL's OFLC Wage Search shows the prevailing wage PERM will require your employer to certify. If the offered salary falls below Level I or II for your location, the employer may need to adjust compensation before DOL will approve the labor certification.
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Find IT Engineer JobsIT Engineer Green Card Sponsorship: Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between H-1B sponsorship and green card sponsorship for an IT Engineer role?
H-1B is a temporary work visa requiring annual lottery entry at the cap-subject level, with no guarantee of selection. Green card sponsorship through PERM is a permanent pathway with no lottery. Your employer files a PERM labor certification with DOL, then an I-140 with USCIS, leading to lawful permanent residency rather than a status that expires and must be renewed.
How do I find IT Engineer employers that sponsor green cards?
Migrate Mate lets you search IT Engineer roles filtered by employers with documented green card sponsorship activity, so you're not guessing which companies are willing to go through the PERM process. Focusing your search this way saves time and avoids employers who sponsor temporary visas only.
Does an IT Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Both categories can apply. If the role requires a master's degree or the employer files under a bachelor's-plus-five-years standard, EB-2 is available. Roles specifying a bachelor's degree as the minimum typically qualify under EB-3 as a skilled worker. The O*NET occupation profile for IT Engineers supports specialty occupation classification, which strengthens both categories.
How long does the green card process take for an IT Engineer?
The PERM labor certification with DOL currently takes roughly 18 months or more at the analyst review stage. After PERM approval, I-140 processing with USCIS adds additional time. Priority date wait times then depend heavily on your country of birth. Applicants born in countries with high backlogs, such as India or China, face significantly longer waits than those born elsewhere.
Can my employer start green card sponsorship while I'm on H-1B status?
Yes. Employers can file PERM while you're in H-1B status, and you don't need to change status to begin the process. Once your I-140 is approved and you've held it for 180 days, you gain AC21 portability rights, which protect your priority date and allow you to change employers in a similar IT Engineer role without restarting the process.
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