Jobs at ASCENDING LLC

Perform recurring labor cost allocations across departments, projects, entities, and funding sources; reconcile costs to payroll, general ledger, and HRIS records; support month-end close, audits, tax reporting, and forecasting. Build labor-cost and headcount dashboards, analyze workforce expenses, monitor employee-data quality, and improve documentation, controls, and allocation processes. Partner with FP&A, HRIS, Payroll, and business leaders while handling confidential compensation data.

Coordinates education and training programs, meetings, events, registrations, logistics, communications, and virtual sessions. Provides customer service and technical support to participants and stakeholders, maintains training materials and user guides, administers evaluations and surveys, prepares reports, and supports administrative, project-tracking, and office-management activities.

Leads supplier and third-party risk management across the full vendor lifecycle, including due diligence, risk tiering, onboarding, performance monitoring, renewals, remediation, and offboarding. Develops governance frameworks, evaluates contracts and assurance documentation, assesses cybersecurity and compliance controls, and prepares executive risk reporting. Partners with Legal, Procurement, Information Security, Finance, Risk, business stakeholders, and suppliers to mitigate risk and optimize vendor value.

Administer and enhance Jira Service Management by managing access, troubleshooting incidents and defects, configuring workflows and automation, supporting migrations, and documenting platform processes. Collaborate with Agile teams and business stakeholders to gather requirements, demonstrate solutions, prioritize requests, and deliver continuous platform improvements. Confluence, ITSM knowledge, enterprise support experience, and Atlassian certifications are preferred.

Supports information security and privacy initiatives across programs, projects, systems, applications, and vendor engagements. Maintains GRC records, security policies, standards, procedures, system security plans, controls documentation, risk assessments, and security diagrams. Participates in PMO projects, reviews contracts for security protections, supports compliance efforts, and communicates security requirements to business stakeholders. Requires at least three years of information security GRC experience and familiarity with NIST, ISO 27001, or COBIT.

Designs, implements, and optimizes secure, scalable integrations between NetSuite and Salesforce. Leads solution architecture, integration strategy, workflow analysis, development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. Ensures reliable data synchronization, automation, compliance, performance, and minimal downtime while recommending platform and integration improvements.

Support enterprise data governance by curating metadata, managing business glossary terms, performing advanced data profiling/analysis, identifying anomalies, documenting issues, maintaining governance artifacts, and facilitating workshops to improve data quality and literacy.

Lead cloud-native rearchitecture of a large monolithic system into microservices using AWS/Azure and Kubernetes. Design resilient, highly available infrastructure with Terraform, implement monitoring/alerting, solve complex cloud networking and security challenges, drive DevOps/CI-CD adoption, evaluate technologies, and mentor engineering teams.

Design, deploy, configure, and troubleshoot multi-vendor networking and server infrastructure. Manage VMware vSphere and Hyper-V virtualization, optimize performance, and handle VM provisioning and upgrades. Configure and support Cisco and Palo Alto network/security appliances, implement security best practices, perform incident response and root cause analysis, and maintain documentation.

Lead and execute risk-based IT, operational, compliance, and financial audits. Design and test controls, analyze processes, manage audit projects end-to-end, report findings, and support remediation and special internal audit initiatives.

Lead rearchitecture of a monolithic system to Azure cloud-native using Kubernetes (AKS). Design, deploy, secure, and maintain scalable containerized applications, implement IaC with Terraform, enforce load balancing and security best practices, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead rearchitecture of a large monolith into cloud-native microservices. Design scalable, highly available systems on AWS and Azure using Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), Terraform, and robust cloud networking. Implement monitoring, logging, and DevOps practices, ensure container and cluster security, evaluate technologies, and mentor engineering teams.

Senior ELK/Dynatrace SME responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale Elastic Stack observability platforms. Build ingestion pipelines, automate with Terraform/Ansible, script in Python/Bash/PowerShell, define SLOs, monitor performance, troubleshoot, and maintain documentation for audits and certifications.

Lead and stabilize IT operations, transition to a secure cloud-based Microsoft/Azure environment, reduce vendor dependence, modernize helpdesk and device management, drive workflow automation and systems integration, manage vendors and internal IT staff, and ensure cybersecurity posture and documentation.

Plan, execute, and optimize multi-channel digital marketing campaigns. Create and manage website, blog, landing page, email, and social content. Manage paid ads and social media, track performance with analytics, conduct SEO/keyword research, and collaborate with sales and design to drive leads and conversions.