This is an exciting opportunity to join the IT Infrastructure Group as part of our Global ONE-IT team. You will support daily IT Operations while contributing to our hybrid-cloud transformation. Here you can make an immediate impact, leveraging the skills and experience you bring to the position.
What makes us special:
- Become part of a unique entrepreneurial team. Think independently, use your initiative, and take some risks. Entrepreneurship is a powerful force that drives the growth not only of our firm but our clients and people.
- Unlock the power of opportunity. Advance your career in a thriving company with a startup feel. We invest in your professional development every step of the way.
- Enjoy balance and flexible working. Be empowered to do your best work – whether it’s from home or in the office.
- Prioritize your health and well-being. No matter where you live, we offer a competitive suite of health benefits to help keep you and your loved ones safe.
- Invest in your future. All US and Canadian employees enjoy 401(k) & RRSP benefits with company matching. Our Employee Bonus Opportunity Program ensures that when our firm grows, you grow with us.
- Work in a values-driven culture. At Simon-Kucher, our vision is to become the world's leading growth specialist. Our values guide the way we do business and communicate our distinctiveness. They sum up what we stand for, influence our culture, and drive how and why we do things.
How you will create an impact:
- Play an important role supporting our hybrid-cloud transformation.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for relevant Azure products and other responsibilities.
- Support growing business requirements utilizing public cloud services (SaaS/IaaS/PaaS).
- Optimize efficiency using scripting, templates, automation, and IaC.
- Implement industry and security best practices when deploying solutions.
- Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including resource provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance, and vulnerability remediation.
- Actively monitor systems and services, providing an incident escalation response.
- Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.
- Contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
- Provide strategy and guidance for MS Azure governance & security.
- Keep up to date with industry knowledge of relevant technologies.
- Serve as a mentor to less experienced IT colleagues.
Your profile:
Must Have:
- Bachelor's degree and/or 5+ years of overall related experience as a cloud engineer in an enterprise environment. Additional experience, education and training may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Experience in the various Azure services, analytics, and storage options.
- Experience in Azure Functions and Serverless Architecture.
- Experience in managing Azure VM infrastructures (lifecycle process).
- Experience in ARM templates for infrastructure deployment.
- Experience with Microsoft Entra ID
- Good understanding of identity and access management / Conditional access.
- Experience implementing industry best practices.
- Hands-on IT project management experience.
- Excellent problem-solving ability.
- Good initiative, time management and organizational skills.
- Good written and spoken communication skills.
- Ability to document technical configurations and processes.
- Ability to work well independently as well as part of a diverse, international team.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in optimizing resource utilization to minimize costs.
- Scripting and Infrastructure as Code: Automate infrastructure provisioning. (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, etc)
- Experience in Microsoft Intune
- Experience with Azure network security (NSG)
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with Azure Cognitive Services (e.g. OpenAI / Copilot)
- Experience with Microsoft Cloud Security (Defender, Key Vault, Sentinel, Policies, etc.)
- Experience working with ITSM platforms (TopDesk, ServiceNow, Jira etc.)
- Current industry certifications are a plus.
The pay range for this position in New York is $125,000 to $140,000 annually. Compensation may vary depending on relevant experience, skills, geographic location, and business needs. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, 13 paid holidays per year, medical/dental/vision insurance, basic life insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Simon-Kucher
is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30 countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With nearly 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist.
Simon-Kucher is an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran or militarily status, or any other legally protected status.
We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, great things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.
Simon-Kucher North America Talent Acquisition Team
RecruitingNorthAmerica@simon-kucher.com
simon-kucher.com/careers
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