Azure Specialist

Please note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equitys value creation partner we sit at the heart of PEwhere sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data technology and AI we help clients drive valuesupporting 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 1600 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.

Azure Specialist

Reporting to the Information Security and Infrastructure Manager the Azure Specialist designs deploys and optimizes Azure services and workflows across Accordions 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.

What Youll Do:

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

You Have:

• 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
• Bachelors degree preferred; Azure certifications are a plus

You Are:

• 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

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $140000 to $165000 benefits bonus.

Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate including but not limited to geographic location skill set years and depth of experience education certifications cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion marital status age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy genetic information gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency person or entity.

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