Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Anthropic is a company dedicated to creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial. The IT Support Engineer, Application Administrator will own SaaS administration operations, including application access, licensing, renewals, audit evidence, application health, Google Workspace resources, and Slack administration. The role will also automate repetitive workflows, coordinate vendors and updates, and partner with IT Engineering on platform-level work.
Responsibilities
- Perform admin actions inside configured apps: role grants, settings changes the app already supports, and user troubleshooting at admin level, across the catalog's heaviest apps such as Gong, 1Password, MongoDB, and Vanta
- Own intake and execution for tickets escalated from the Support queue into the SaaS lane, and write the runbook as you go
- Identify repetitive work across the lane and automate it: license workflows, seat reporting, evidence pulls, and anything the queue keeps handing you
- Build automations with the tools at hand (scripts, app-native workflows, AI tools) and partner with IT Engineering when an automation needs platform-level access
- Monitor application health, usage, and performance at the app level, and route platform or infrastructure issues to IT Engineering
- Coordinate vendor-driven app updates and feature rollouts: track release notes, schedule changes inside the apps, and communicate user-facing impacts
- Assign and reclaim licenses across the catalog
- Produce seat utilization reporting and run the monthly utilization review
- Own the renewal calendar and prepare true-ups
- Act as the day-to-day contact for vendor customer success managers (contract negotiation and spend approval stay with Procurement and Finance)
- Pull SOC2 evidence, support access-review execution, and package audit responses on the audit calendar (audit scope and policy stay with Security and Compliance)
- Administer Google Calendar resources: rooms, equipment, and resource hygiene
- Administer Google Groups: membership and access changes, troubleshooting, and keeping a heavily nested group structure understandable and clean
- Support Slack app installs in partnership with CorpSec for scope review
- Workspace compartmentalization through Grid
- Auditing and rotating Slack apps credentials in partnership with developers
Skills
- Have 6+ years of hands-on experience administering a portfolio of SaaS applications at the admin level, ideally in a fast-paced or high-growth environment
- Have owned license and seat management: assignment, reclamation, and utilization reporting
- Have supported renewals or true-ups and worked directly with vendor account or CSM contacts
- Have pulled audit evidence or executed access reviews (SOC2 or a similar framework)
- Are an excellent communicator who genuinely enjoys helping people solve problems
- Write things down: runbooks, how-to guides, and knowledge base articles
- Are organized enough to run calendar-driven work (renewals, audits, access reviews) alongside a ticket queue without things falling through the cracks
- Recognize when a request crosses from operating a system into changing it, and route platform-level work to the owning team
- Take ownership of problems and follow through until they're resolved
- Look for manual work that repeats and automate it
- Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
- Travel to our San Francisco office is required, along with occasional travel to other Anthropic offices
- Have basic scripting experience (Bash or Python) for automating license or reporting tasks
- Have Google Workspace administration experience, especially with Google Groups
- Have worked a full SOC2 or similar audit cycle on the evidence side
- Have experience with a SaaS management or license management platform
- Have experience using AI tools to improve personal or team productivity
Benefits
- This is a remote role.
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
- We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.
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