Azure Specialist

Accordion•Los Angeles, NY

2d•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

Nice To Haves

Azure certifications are a plus

Responsibilities

Azure Platform Engineering: 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.
Security & Reliability: Help implement secure configuration, identity controls, resilience, and operational standards for Azure environments. Support monitoring, backup, failover, and recovery readiness.
Optimization & Automation: Improve automation, provisioning speed, and infrastructure consistency through tooling and repeatable engineering patterns. Partner on usage optimization and cost-aware design decisions.
Cross-Functional Delivery: Work with infrastructure, security, and development teams to support enterprise platforms and practice development activities running on Azure.