Azure Specialist

Accordion•Boston, MA

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to the Information Security and Infrastructure Manager, the Azure Specialist designs, deploys, and optimizes Azure services and workflows across Accordion's enterprise and practice-supporting environments. This role brings deep hands-on expertise across services such as Entra, AKS, and Azure Virtual Machines and helps ensure Azure 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 Azure environments in production
Strong hands-on knowledge of Azure services including Entra, AKS, Azure Virtual Machines, and related infrastructure capabilities
Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, and secure cloud operations
Comfortability troubleshooting, optimizing, and improving Azure environments, with a focus on scalable, secure, and reliable outcomes
Ability to work across engineering, security, and operational teams
Bachelor's degree preferred
Azure certifications are a plus
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 Azure workloads and supporting platform services
Support architecture and engineering decisions across Entra, AKS, Azure Virtual Machines, and related Azure capabilities
Help implement secure configuration, identity controls, resilience, and operational standards for Azure environments
Support monitoring, backup, failover, 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 Azure