Job description
About Charles River Associates
Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations, and governments around the world. CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for its combination of industry experience and rigorous, fact-based analysis that provides clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business concerns.
The Information Technology (ITS) department at Charles River Associates is a team of 40 professionals dedicated to enhancing, maintaining, and developing the firm's technology infrastructure and security. The team comprises six functions: Enterprise Applications Services; Service Delivery & Telecom; Information Security; Infrastructure, Cloud and Networks; Project Management and Procurement; and Human Resource Information Systems. Information Technology staff are based in the Boston, Chicago, College Station, New York, Oakland, and Washington, DC offices domestically, as well as London and Munich offices internationally.
Position Overview
The Cloud Administrator will:
• 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.
Desired Qualifications
• 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.
• Experience using the Power Platform would be beneficial:
• Utilize Flow for process automation
Work Location Flexibility
CRA creates a work environment that enables our colleagues to benefit from being together in the office to best deliver on our promise of career growth, mentorship and inclusivity. At the same time, we recognize that individuals realize a range of benefits when working from home periodically. We currently expect that individuals spend at least 3 to 4 days a week working in the office (which may include traveling to another CRA office or to client meetings), with specific days determined in coordination with your practice or team.
Our Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Associates is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
