AWS Specialist

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

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting 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 1,600+ 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.

Reporting to the Information Security and Infrastructure Manager, the AWS Specialist designs, deploys, and optimizes AWS services and workflows across Accordion's enterprise and practice-supporting environments. This role brings deep hands-on expertise across services such as EC2, S3, EKS, and IAM and helps ensure AWS 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.

AWS Platform Engineering

• Design, deploy, and optimize AWS workloads and supporting platform services
• Support architecture and engineering decisions across EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, and related AWS capabilities

Security & Reliability

• Help implement secure configuration, access controls, resilience, and operational standards for AWS environments
• Support backup, failover, monitoring, 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 AWS

• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting AWS environments in production
• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, and related infrastructure capabilities
• Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, and secure cloud operations
• Comfortability with troubleshooting, optimizing, and improving AWS environments, with a focus on scalable, secure, and reliable outcomes
• Ability to work across engineering, security, and operational teams – you are a strong collaborator across technical teams
• Bachelor's degree preferred; AWS certifications are a plus

• 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: $140,000 to $165,000 + 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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