Location: Hybrid (La Verne, CA)
Reports To: Service Manager
Type: Full-time
Schedule: PST-aligned hours, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM PST

About Modern IT

Modern IT is a new kind of MSP: more intentional, more informed, and more inspired.

We believe IT should put people and businesses into motion, not stand in the way. That means reducing complexity, pushing back against tool sprawl, and building technology ecosystems that create clarity, confidence, and momentum.

As a platform-centric managed services provider, Modern IT helps businesses move confidently into the digital age through deep strategic partnerships with Microsoft and ConnectWise. We serve clients across industries with a distributed team built around operational excellence, human-centered service, and continuous innovation.

Why This Role Exists

This role exists to challenge the traditional MSP model and redefine what great frontline IT service can be.

Externally, this role is best understood as a Senior MSP Systems Engineer. Internally, it sits within Modern IT’s ROC, or Reactive Operations Center, where client trust is won or lost.

At Modern IT, we believe this work deserves senior-level talent. We are building a ROC led by engineers who combine technical depth, business awareness, strong communication, and a passion for improving the way service is delivered.

The AI era requires a new kind of service engineer: someone who can troubleshoot deeply, think systematically, mentor others, and work with AI architects to turn real service patterns into automation, prediction, better documentation, and better client outcomes.

Who Thrives in This Role

This role is for the senior technical leader who has seen enough reactive IT to know there has to be a better way.

You may be the person everyone already goes to when tickets get complicated, when clients need clarity, or when the team needs a calm technical leader to help move things forward. You enjoy solving technical problems, but you also care about the human experience behind the issue.

You do not want to spend your career closing tickets just to hit a metric. You want to identify patterns, improve systems, mentor teammates, and help build a service model that is smarter, calmer, and more scalable.

This role is also for the engineer who wants meaningful access to AI and the opportunity to build with it as part of real service delivery. You will work alongside AI architects and service leaders to identify where automation, ticket intelligence, knowledge retrieval, and predictive support can improve the experience for both clients and engineers.

If you are energized by deep technical problem-solving, continuous learning, client trust, and the chance to help reinvent frontline IT for the AI era, this role was built for you.

Success Factors

Success in this role is measured by the ability to create a calmer, more reliable, and more scalable service experience for clients and engineers.

Client Environments Become Quieter and More Stable: Client environments become more stable over time, with the ROC driving toward world-class benchmarks of fewer than 0.25 reactive hours per user per month and fewer than 0.25 tickets per user per month.
Issues Are Resolved Quickly and Correctly: More than 80% of eligible reactive incidents are resolved the same day, without sacrificing quality, documentation, communication, or long-term fix discipline.
Clients Feel Informed and Confident: Clients do not have to chase updates or wonder who owns their issue. Communication is proactive, clear, expectation-driven, and trust-building throughout the incident lifecycle.
Knowledge Compounds Across the ROC: Meaningful resolutions improve documentation, knowledge base quality, and team repeatability, reducing dependency on tribal knowledge and helping the next engineer resolve similar issues faster.
AI and Automation Create Real Service Leverage: AI and automation are used to identify patterns, improve documentation, reduce repeat issues, support faster resolution, and help the ROC prevent more problems before they become tickets

What You’ll Own

Own reactive support incidents from intake through resolution, ensuring proper triage, prioritization, communication, documentation, and follow-through, both remotely and on-site.

Provide technical leadership for complex issues across Microsoft 365, endpoints, networking, identity, access, and client environments, both remotely and on-site.

Lead client communication during incidents by setting expectations, providing proactive updates, and maintaining confidence throughout the resolution process.

Identify recurring issues, service patterns, and root causes that should become documentation, standards, automation, or permanent fixes.

Create and improve knowledge base articles, ticket documentation, troubleshooting guides, and client-specific support notes.

Maintain high-quality PSA data in ConnectWise, including notes, time entries, categorization, statuses, resolution details, and next steps.

Support ROC team consistency by mentoring teammates, sharing knowledge, reinforcing process discipline, and helping reduce unnecessary escalations.

Partner with leadership and AI architects to turn real service patterns into practical AI, automation, documentation, and prevention improvements.

AI-Enabled Service Delivery

This role is expected to actively use and help shape AI-enabled service delivery. That means using AI to improve ticket analysis, summarize technical work, strengthen documentation, identify recurring patterns, support knowledge retrieval, and surface opportunities for automation.

The goal is not to replace great engineering judgment with AI. The goal is to give great engineers better tools, better insight, and more leverage.

Must Have

6+ years of experience in technical support, managed services, or a similar client-facing IT environment.

Proven ability to own complex incidents from intake through resolution in a fast-paced, high-volume service environment.

Strong hands-on experience supporting Microsoft 365 environments, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Entra ID, identity/access issues, endpoint troubleshooting, and tenant-level administration.

Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, wireless, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, and WAN/LAN troubleshooting.

Hands-on experience working in ConnectWise PSA or a comparable PSA/RMM environment, with strong ticket hygiene, documentation, time entry, categorization, and workflow discipline.

Ability to communicate clearly with clients during urgent or ambiguous incidents, including setting expectations, explaining impact, and maintaining confidence.

Strong documentation discipline, including clear ticket notes, resolution details, knowledge base contributions, root cause findings, and repeat issue tracking.

Demonstrated ability to identify recurring issues, improve processes, and contribute to standards, automation, or permanent fixes.

Curiosity and practical interest in using AI, automation, and modern tools to improve service delivery, documentation, knowledge retrieval, and issue prevention.

Preferred Certifications & Platform Experience

Microsoft platform: Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, Endpoint Administrator Associate, Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Security Operations Analyst Associate.

AI and automation: Azure AI Fundamentals, Power Platform Fundamentals, Microsoft Applied Skills related to Copilot, Power Automate, Azure AI, AI agents, or automation workflows.

Networking: CCNA, Network+, UniFi/Ubiquiti Academy, Cisco Meraki, or equivalent networking training.

Service operations: ConnectWise University, ConnectWise PSA certification, or equivalent hands-on ConnectWise service operations experience.

What We Value in This Role

Ownership: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just assigned tasks.
Calm execution: You bring clarity, structure, and confidence to urgent or ambiguous situations.
Technical curiosity: You enjoy learning, troubleshooting deeply, and understanding why problems happen.
Communication: You know that great service requires clear expectations, not just technical answers.
Continuous improvement: You look for patterns, reduce repeat issues, and leave the system better than you found it.
People-first service: You care about the person and business impact behind every technical issue.

Why Join Modern IT?

Modern IT is building a new kind of MSP: one that combines human-centered service, platform discipline, operational maturity, and practical AI adoption.

This is an opportunity to join a team that believes frontline IT should be led by strong technical talent, not treated as entry-level work. You will help shape how the ROC operates, how clients experience support, and how AI and automation are used to make service delivery smarter, calmer, and more scalable.

If you want to solve real problems, improve systems, mentor others, and help build the next version of managed services, this role gives you that opportunity.

Estimated Market Salary Range: $110,000 – 130,000 annually, with flexibility based on experience and overall qualifications. Final compensation will align with skills, market data, and internal guidelines

Modern IT offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employee wellbeing, financial security, and work–life balance. Full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

Health & Insurance Benefits

Medical insurance (HMO, PPO, Nationwide, and High-Deductible Plan options)

Coverage effective Day 1

Modern IT contributes toward employee and dependent premiums

Basic Life and AD&D insurance (up to $50,000 provided by Modern IT)

Optional supplemental Life and AD&D insurance (employee, spouse/domestic partner, children)

Long-Term Disability insurance (employer-sponsored; effective after 3 months)

60% of earnings up to $10,000/month

Optional Dental and Vision insurance (effective Day 1 if elected)

Health & Wellness Programs

Medical Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Health Savings Account (HSA) for HDHP participants

Health Advocacy Program (24/7 support for claims, billing, scheduling, coordination)

Employee Assistance Program (confidential counseling and resources)

Additional Voluntary Benefits

Critical Illness, Accident, and Disability coverage

Perks at Work (discounts on travel, electronics, home goods, etc.)

Adoption Assistance Program (up to $1,500 reimbursement)

Commuter Benefits Program (pre-tax transit/parking)

Time Off & Holidays

80 hours of PTO per anniversary year (for new full-time employees)

6 paid sick days per anniversary year

7 paid company holidays

Up to 2 floating holidays per calendar year

Retirement

401(k) plan with employer match

Eligibility begins the first day of the month following 3 months of employment

Ready to Build Something That Matters?

If you are a senior technical leader who takes ownership, challenges the status quo, and wants to help reinvent IT for the AI era, we would love to talk.

This role is for someone who wants to build, improve, and create real impact — not just execute tickets.