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Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
What You'll Do
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a premier global consultancy, forging partnerships with market leaders to navigate their critical challenges and seize their largest opportunities. From our inception in 1963 as a pioneer in business strategy, we have evolved to embody a
transformational approach, propelling organizations towards growth, sustainable competitive advantage, and positive societal contributions.
Our in-house tech and design arm, BCG X, catapults our extensive industry and functional prowess into the tech realm, blending advanced technological know-how with audacious entrepreneurial spirit to foster large-scale innovation. Located across 80+ cities, our almost
3,000-strong team of technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers collaborates to craft platforms and software that address the globe's paramount challenges and opportunities.
We are seeking a strong candidate to fill the BCG X Platform and Infrastructure - Senior Platform Engineer position.
As part of BCG X Platform and Infrastructure team, the Sr. Platform Engineer will work with multiple global teams to implement and support the full life cycle of cloud infrastructure solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP) as part of product development used to solve our clients’ problems while maintaining the highest level of data security.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for collaboration and open communication.
Key Responsibilities
• Development and support of self-provisioning capabilities across multiple Cloud service providers
• Provide functional & technical administration and support for to-be-built project platforms
• Work with other internal IT teams such as security, networking, and operations to resolve issues and release new capabilities
• Monitor production environments and act as the final point of escalation for service requests
• Implement and deliver collaborative DevOps practice guidelines and procedures for software delivery and infrastructure revisions to maintain and deliver developed products
• Manage escalations with an ownership mindset and attitude • Development and configuration of infrastructure solutions with operational efficiency as a goal
• Evaluation of current systems and standards, to identify operational improvements
• Assist in implementing small to medium scale systems projects and change requests
• Build and release new features and bug fixes to meet rapidly evolving business needs
• Develop standard reports on KPIs to use for executive reporting
• Provide technical support to development team and/or application users as needed
What You'll Bring
• BA/MS degree in computer or information sciences or similar field
• 5+ years relevant professional experience in information technology
• Process-oriented and analytical working style
• Ability to understand and explain technical concepts both in technical and nontechnical situations
• Can clearly define and propose solutions / options, and considers the broader impact of problems / solutions
• Experience in Amazon Web Services and/or Azure, and strong desire to learn building on GCP and other maturing cloud platforms
• Good understanding of DevOps tools and methods for Cloud Computing environments
• Scripting skills using Python or PowerShell or Bash
• Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation a plus
• Use of CI/CD automation using tools like Circle CI, Ansible, Packer, Github Actions
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts
• Good knowledge of Windows and Linux Operating Systems
• High degree of comfort with changing and maintaining configuration for enterprise software
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and strong English language skills
• Demonstrates advanced problem solving through independent thinking
• Ability to execute and deliver day-to-day work with high quality and effectiveness
• Able to define and execute multiple tasks or more complex tasks with timely, high-quality results
• Proactively identifies and independently solves most non-routine problems by applying broad knowledge
• Able to foresee problems within expertise
Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.\n
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