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Job Summary:
Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise. The Cloud Administrator will assist in designing and managing cloud infrastructure, support deployment engagements, and ensure the security and integrity of cloud environments.
Responsibilities:
• Assist in the design, implementation, and management cloud infrastructure with a focus on best practices and security standards on Azure, AWS and some initiatives in GCP.
• Support architecture and deployment engagements across multiple cloud platforms with internal Practices.
• Identity opportunities for process automation and standardization to enhance operational efficiency, and assist in their implementation.
• Assist in managing and optimizing Databricks environments, including cluster configuration, workspace administration, and performance tuning.
• Help ensure the security and integrity of production and development environments, adhering to office and security policies.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation including task lists, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, and Technical Build Documents, ensuring successful project completion and alignment with all team members towards common objectives.
• Support the implementation of DevOps practices, such as CI/CD pipelines, using GitHub and Azure DevOps.
• Assist in performing cost analysis for high-performance analytic environments, dynamically managing budgets, alerts, and monitoring.
• Gain an understanding of data lifecycle workflows and assist in selecting the most suitable tools for each stage.
• Support the management of different storage tiers and optimize data handling throughout the data lifecycle.
• Assist with M365 administration.
• Help ensure Disaster Recovery plans are kept up to date and tested.
• Support and troubleshoot connectivity between cloud and on-premises networks.
• Assist in building and executing proprietary workflows and custom automations tailored to organizational needs.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 2-4 years of demonstrable experience in supporting and managing cloud-based solutions in a hybrid environment (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Basic understanding of cloud architecture principles and best practices.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Bicep, Terraform) and scripting languages (PowerShell, Python).
• Basic knowledge of traditional on-premises technologies such as: VMware Data Centre Virtualisation, ESXi, vSphere, vCenter, Horizon/VDI, Core Networking services - DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Active Directory - Enterprise level, Storage Technologies - Hybrid, Flash, Pure, Microsoft Windows Servers
• Exposure to Databricks across Azure, AWS and GCP including: Deploying classic and serverless compute on Databricks, Working with Unity Catalog, Pulling data from clients in AWS, Azure, and GCP, Pushing data to CRA from clients in AWS, Azure, and GCP, Purging data in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Preferred:
• Experience using the Power Platform would be beneficial: Utilize Flow for process automation
Company:
Charles River Associates is a consulting firm specializing in financial, litigation, regulatory, and management consulting. Founded in 1965, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Charles River Associates has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
