Overview:
Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognised by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.
We are a collegial, collaborative, and diverse firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.
If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our IT department in our London office as an Engineer: Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture. Hours:
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with flexibility in accordance with the needs of the business.
Our current working from home policy allows for two days working from home, subject to business need. This policy is subject to change and does not form part of contractual terms.
Participation in an on-call rotation. Given the global nature of this role, there is often the need for off-hours (e.g. late evening and/or early morning) conference calls or video conferences.
Responsibilities:
Ensures efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with the firms security policies and best practices in cloud security
Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design
Identifies, analyzes, and resolves legacy and cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues
Implement and manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training when necessary
Responsible for optimizing the use of cloud resources to help the company balance performance with costs.
Responsible for assessing current technologies and preparing for cloud transformation, working with the Platform Engineering team
Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
Develops, maintains and documents infrastructure best practices, guidelines, and guardrails for on-premise and cloud technologies
Develops and deploys modular cloud-based systems
Working with the Platform Engineering team, provide automation enhancements to help keep the environment consistent, ease large tasks, ensure compliance, and helps with life cycle management
Works with vendor partners to test and benchmark new infrastructure solutions. Provides findings to Infrastructure Architects team and appropriate levels of management
Attends regular vendor meetings for areas of expertise, stays informed of latest technology roadmaps, security notifications, and bug/hot fixes
Ensures optimization of architecture is accessed before, during and after cloud migrations
Ensures vendors provide proper levels of support, maintain SLA’s and provide root cause analysis for escalated issues
Works with application and Infrastructure teams, to ensure both new and existing systems follow BC/DR guidelines, have documented plans, and are tested and reviewed on an agreed basis
Ensures all team, departmental and firm policies and procedures are adhered to, including change management and service continuity
Completes all administrative tasks, i.e., (time tracking, project and task updates, trouble ticket notes, status reports, responding to email, etc.) accurately and on time
Fosters trust and builds relationships with the other Information Technology teams both globally and within the region
Acts as an escalation point for the IT Operations team
Performs other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, Information Technology or related field. A combination of education and/or experience may be considered in lieu of the degree when the experience has been directly related to the functions of the job
Minimum of 5 years of related experience, required
Microsoft Azure Certifications, preferred
Experience, skills and personal attributes: Professional Experience:
Prior experience in on-premise to cloud transformation
Prior experience working in a global environment, preferred.
Technical Skills:
Private cloud datacentre, including VMware, Cisco UCS, Dell EMC, required
Private cloud networking, including Cisco ACI, F5 load balancing, Palo Alto firewall, SDWAN, required
Knowledge of Information Security best practices, required
Experience automating into public cloud providers, required
Assessing cloud environments for drift and misconfiguration and remediation workflows implementation via automation, required
Experience with Microsoft Azure, required
Experience with Azure Migrate
Windows Server and associated infrastructure (e.g. AD), preferred
Linux, preferred
PowerShell, preferred
Kubernetes, preferred
Terraform, preferred
Performance Traits:
Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate effectively and in a professional manner with all levels of the Firm and outside vendors
Ability to work in a diverse team environment and effectively support the demanding needs of the Firm
Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines with shifting priorities
Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists, and subject-matter experts
Must be a self-starter with a high level of initiative
Strong customer service skills, able to anticipate needs and exercise independent judgment
Strong attention to detail, organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects
Exercises solid strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
Comfortable working to Agile methodologies
Committed to continued advancement
Resilient and able to handle setbacks
Commitment to process improvement
Familiarity with established project management and other structured operational practices
High level of discretion, comfortable handling sensitive information and maintaining confidentiality
Willingness to challenge the status quo
The above is a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.
The Firm may modify and amend this job description at any time at its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.
At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed.
Our culture promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and productivity among people from all backgrounds and values different perspectives and ideas.
One of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our Employee Resource Groups - LGBTQI+, Fusion (Race \& Ethnicity), Multi-faith, Women, Enable (Disability), Social Inclusion and Opportunities Network and Work and Me (Family).
We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that individuals may require throughout the recruitment process and once they have joined the Firm.
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