Global Platforms Engineer - Finance

January 15

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Dentons is the world's largest global law firm, offering a wide range of legal services through its member firms and affiliates across more than 160 locations worldwide. Dentons focuses on helping clients grow, protect, operate, and finance their businesses by providing comprehensive global solutions, insights, and legal expertise. The firm is recognized for its strength in sectors such as mergers and acquisitions, tax advisory, anti-bribery and corruption law, and legal management of data centers, among others. Its commitment to supporting international projects, such as the transformation and rebuild of Ukraine, demonstrates its global impact and ambition. Dentons also emphasizes knowledge sharing through webinars and thought leadership initiatives, targeting challenges and opportunities in the legal profession for general counsels and in-house legal teams.

10,000+ employees

🤝 B2B

📋 Compliance

💸 Finance

📋 Description

• Dentons is designed to be different. • We are driven to always be the firm of the future, to challenge the status quo, and to provide holistic business solutions to our clients in new and innovative ways. • We are the lightbulb moments. • The bold ideas. • We are the world's largest global law firm, with 12,000+ people across 80+ countries. • Driven by the diverse perspectives of our people, our clients, and our communities, we combine local knowledge with global insight. • The enablement and support of Firmwide services and technologies is central to Global Business Technology’s mandate. • These robust capabilities have uniquely positioned the team to deliver support for any common technologies adopted by two or more individual Verein Members and Affiliates. • The GBT team can leverage these existing firmwide capabilities, augmenting where capacity or skillset gaps exist to expand support. • Global Business Technology has been mandated to establish a team to support production and development finance environments. • This strategic expansion of GBT’s Central Technology Support services (CTS Add On), will establish the Finance Systems Engineering team who will be accountable for the operational support of these finance environments. • The Global Platforms Engineer (Finance) is responsible for overseeing and optimizing the technical infrastructure underpinning the production and development finance environments. • A deep understanding of and experience with cloud-native Azure infrastructure and Microsoft technologies will allow the Global Platforms Engineer (Finance) to ensure supported environments remain robust, reliable, and secure. • The role demands a proactive approach to problem-solving, a focus on continuous infrastructure optimization, and a commitment to achieving Service Excellence. • Collaboration is essential to achieving success in this role.

🎯 Requirements

• A Global Platforms Engineer (Finance) must possess a strong technical aptitude with significant hands-on experience working with enterprise platforms and infrastructure technologies. • A strong focus on cloud technologies is essential, partnered with a significant foundation with traditional Microsoft based technologies. • Team members must be both technically proficient, as well as capable of articulating ideas and strategies in writing or verbally. • Extensive expertise with Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS technologies, including: • Virtual Servers, Networking, Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Storage Accounts, Key Vaults. • Web Applications, Log Analytics, Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, Azure Monitor • Strong expertise with Windows based server infrastructures. • Strong expertise with networking and firewall technologies. • Strong expertise with business continuity technologies (e.g., backups, failover, disaster recovery). • Experience with PowerShell and other service automation tools and services. • Experience with Azure Databases (Managed Instances) and Microsoft SQL technologies. • Practical knowledge of implementation lifecycles, methodologies, tools, and practices. • Formal IT qualifications or accreditations (for instance, ITIL, Prince 2, MCSE). • Understanding of standards and frameworks (for instance, SOC2, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials). • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. • Ability to negotiate and influence colleagues and stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes. • Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with the ability to clearly explain issues and contribute to resolutions. • Capable of decision-making and remaining calm while under pressure. • Methodical and detail oriented, with a strong focus on accuracy, consistency, and quality. • Understands the importance of documentation and well-defined procedures. • Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is highly desirable and considered a significant asset. • ITIL certification and practical experience are highly valued. • Additional relevant technology certifications (e.g., MCSE, CISSP, or AWS certifications) are considered beneficial. • A minimum of 6 years of progressive experience working with infrastructure technologies. • Experience leading technical teams or projects is an asset. • Comprehensive knowledge of enterprise architecture and familiarity with common IT frameworks.

🏖️ Benefits

• Language Capabilities • Equal Opportunities • Inclusion, Diversity & Equity