Staff CPE Engineer

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🕒 July 16

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $150k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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KoBold Metals

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

⚡ Energy

Artificial Intelligence • Science • Energy

KoBold Metals is a company specializing in advanced mineral exploration. By investing over $100 million annually across 60+ projects on five continents, KoBold is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence and novel hardware to transform mineral exploration into a repeatable science. The company aggregates comprehensive data on the Earth's crust and utilizes proprietary AI tools, including the Machine Prospector® system, to minimize uncertainties in exploration. KoBold Metals is committed to ethical exploration practices and is backed by world-class investors dedicated to discovering and developing new battery metal resources. Their innovative approach leverages AI to build the world's largest geoscience information collection and model subsurface data statistically.

📋 Description

• Help build IT roadmap, setting technical direction for endpoint management, fleet automation, and IT operations across all KoBold offices and field sites in 10+ countries • Design and implement zero-touch provisioning and automated reimaging workflows for macOS (Jamf) and Windows (Intune) endpoints • Build endpoint monitoring, alerting, and fleet health dashboards to shift IT from reactive to proactive support • Drive device lifecycle management including EoL/EoS tracking, hardware refresh planning, and inventory management across Jamf, Intune, CrowdStrike, and related tooling • Create self-service application deployment and access workflows to reduce helpdesk volume and empower employees • Apply DevOps principles to IT operations: configuration-as-code (e.g. managing Intune policies via Terraform), infrastructure automation, version-controlled policies, and repeatable processes • Own internet reliability and network performance at all global remote KoBold sites • Manage the full software procurement lifecycle: new purchases, renewals, expansions, and cancellations, ensuring user access is never disrupted by lapsed licenses or last-minute renewals • Own and drive execution of the annual software budget, including process improvements year-over-year and proactive renewal pipeline visibility for legal and finance • Optimize license utilization across the SaaS portfolio—track usage, right-size seat counts, consolidate redundant tools, and negotiate pricing with vendors • Coordinate with legal on contract review, working within the existing procurement process to move quickly on low-risk purchases while ensuring appropriate review for larger spend • Onboard new SaaS applications with proper Okta integration (SSO, SCIM) before launch, and manage decommissioning of deprecated tools • Own Okta administration including SSO integrations, SCIM provisioning, group management, access request workflows, and lifecycle automation • Manage Google Workspace administration, including license management, security settings, and break-glass super-admin governance • Build automation for minimal-touch employee onboarding and offboarding—ensuring new hires are fully provisioned on day one and departing employees are cleanly deprovisioned • Support AI tooling rollout (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and related tools) across the endpoint fleet, including deployment, configuration, and employee training • Supervise and mentor IT support staff, providing technical coaching, priority-setting, performance management, and career development • Develop and maintain IT training programs for new hires and ongoing employee enablement, including documentation, video walkthroughs, and live onboarding sessions • Provide helpdesk backup on high-volume days, modeling the standard of responsiveness and quality you expect from the team • Learn about mineral exploration by working closely with exploration teams, including time in the field in remote operations • Collaborate with infrastructure engineering and security teams on cross-cutting initiatives including observability, access controls, endpoint security posture, and incident response • Partner across the company to contribute to specification, vendor selection, and change management on new software requests • Partner with finance on budget tracking, invoice approvals, and AFE submissions for software spend • Work with legal to streamline the contract review pipeline, maintain lead times on renewals, and advocate for tiered review processes that match risk to effort • Coordinate digitization efforts across the globe, ensuring consistent standards and tooling for converting physical records to digital archives at field and office sites

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in IT engineering, IT management, or a similar role combining hands-on technical depth with operational ownership • Strong experience with MDM platforms, particularly Jamf (macOS) and Microsoft Intune (Windows), including policy configuration, automated enrollment, compliance enforcement, and ideally infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform) • Experience with identity and access management platforms (Okta strongly preferred), including SSO integration, SCIM provisioning, access request workflows, and lifecycle automation • Experience managing software procurement and renewals: specification and change management, vendor negotiation, license optimization, renewal pipeline management, and budget ownership • Hands-on experience building zero-touch provisioning, automated reimaging, and self-service deployment workflows • Experience with endpoint monitoring and fleet management at scale, including remote/distributed environments • People management or technical lead experience: demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and grow IT staff while maintaining high execution standards • Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar) for building automation and tooling • Intellectually curious; eager to learn about the substance of mineral exploration and exploration technology • Excellent communication and collaboration skills—comfortable working across disciplines with engineers, scientists, legal, finance, and leadership in a remote-first environment • Proven ability to take ownership: you build the roadmap, do the research, implement the solution, write the documentation, and communicate the rollout • Strong prioritization instincts—you can look at a long list of IT initiatives and distinguish what actually matters from nice-to-haves, and you can explain why • Comfort with ambiguity and a dynamic work environment; eagerness to take on an evolving range of responsibilities at a fast-growing company • Experience supporting global teams across multiple time zones is a strong plus • Familiarity with Google Workspace administration, CrowdStrike, Datadog, or similar tooling is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401k matching