Interview Process: Hiring Manager interview + Case presentation

About CDP

At CDP we are on a mission to solve our planet’s biggest environmental challenges: climate change, water scarcity and deforestation. We believe you can’t manage what you don’t measure – so we run the world’s largest environmental disclosure system. For the past two decades, our team has worked tirelessly to create a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term – we accomplish this by engaging the global actors who wield the greatest influence in driving environmental change: companies, cities, governments, and the capital markets.

About the IT Team

Dependable, efficient, innovative, and effective technology services are critical to the core function of CDP and enabling it to deliver its core mission. As part of its strategic ambitions CDP has recognised an uplift to technology operations and capabilities is critical to realise its strategic goals of higher impact, improved stakeholder experience and disclosure information. Therefore, we are strengthening the technology function to provide a clear vision and roadmap of the technology landscape, to improve our relationship to key internal and external stakeholders and to build the technology capabilities needed to deliver CDP’s outcomes, while providing a resilient, stable, secure and cost-effective IT service.

We are now looking for an  Azure Engineer to join the team. This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fast paced and exciting team, where you will be defining and implementing new Azure technologies and security processes which will allow CDP to continue its Azure and security journey.

You will be working within a very friendly, supportive, and motivated team who always aspire to do their best. 

What you'll need to succeed:

The right candidate will be someone with experience of public cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure including Azure tools such as Azure Backup and Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Azure Active Directory, Azure. They will possess good knowledge of Azure Infrastructure as code, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and good understanding of Azure Resource Manager & Azure AD. Configure and manage Containers, CI/CD, Automation, Functions, Serverless, API management, Application gateway, Virtual machines, Virtual networks, Network security groups, express route etc.

As the Azure Engineer, you will:

• Serve as a key technical resource within the team for the further development & implementation of the Microsoft Security Tools eg, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Firewall.
• Provide security guidance for existing applications/infrastructure and new projects with a view to securing data and apps as per company's standards.
• Identify, analyse, and resolve systems design weaknesses, prioritizing troubleshooting efforts and pin-pointing resolutions to complex issues surrounding access to systems.
• Ensure that solutions are aligned with business needs, security standards, industry best practices
• Design, document, plan, coordinate & execute engineering changes for aligned projects
• Provide engineering support for points of integration between security technologies and other systems.

You will have the following skills and experience:

• Good understanding of and recent hands-on engineering experience designing, configuring, and deploying security toolsets in Azure, namely:
  • Defender Suite, VNets, Express Route, Firewall Advanced, Azure Policy, Sentinel, Azure Active Directory, Landing Zones, Identity Governance, Identity Access Management, Privilege Identity Management, Identity Protection Suite, Microsoft Intune

• Demonstrable relevant security experience
• Experience in single sign on (SSO) configuration with various IdPs (Azure, AWS)
• Strong understanding and experience using deployment pipelines (Infrastructure as Code)
• Hands on experience with PowerShell, Graph API and Net (preferable)
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with a pragmatic approach to finding solutions
• Excellent communication skills, with the capability to explain technical topics to non-technical audiences
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, under pressure and with fluid objectives

Benefits:

• Working for a leading people-centric environmental NGO with dedicated, passionate and caring coworkers;
• Competitive NGO salary and 8% Company Pension Program;
• 30 days annual holidays (with purchased leave options);
• Flexible working hours (with option to take flex-days)
• Up to 6 months remote work anywhere in the world
• Paid sabbaticals, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave
• Office offering prayer room and breastfeeding facilities

Before you apply

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How to apply:

Please upload your CV in the application form.