AWS Specialist

Accordion•Boston, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation. If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment. Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. Reporting to the Information Security and Infrastructure Manager, the AWS Specialist designs, deploys, and optimizes AWS services and workflows across Accordion's enterprise and practice-supporting environments. This role brings deep hands-on expertise across services such as EC2, S3, EKS, and IAM and helps ensure AWS capabilities are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-aware. The role partners closely with cloud engineering, security, and development teams across the US, UK, and India. Travel will be required. This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates). This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing and supporting AWS environments in production
Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, and related infrastructure capabilities
Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, and secure cloud operations
Comfortability with troubleshooting, optimizing, and improving AWS environments, with a focus on scalable, secure, and reliable outcomes
Ability to work across engineering, security, and operational teams – you are a strong collaborator across technical teams
Bachelor's degree preferred
AWS certifications are a plus

Nice To Haves

Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO
Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture
Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing)
A self-starter with a strong work ethic
Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
A team player, able to work with team members across all levels
Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
A leader of others; you lead by example

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and optimize AWS workloads and supporting platform services
Support architecture and engineering decisions across EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, and related AWS capabilities
Help implement secure configuration, access controls, resilience, and operational standards for AWS environments
Support backup, failover, monitoring, and recovery readiness
Improve automation, provisioning speed, and infrastructure consistency through tooling and repeatable engineering patterns
Partner on usage optimization and cost-aware design decisions
Work with infrastructure, security, and development teams to support enterprise platforms and practice development activities running on AWS