Maritime services platform spanning shipbroking, research, finance, and green transition advisory
Clarksons operates a diversified maritime services group across 64 offices in 24 countries, with five business lines serving global shipping trade. Their tech foundation is heavily Azure-native (SQL, Cosmos DB, DevOps, Monitor, Kusto) paired with Databricks and Power BI for analytics—a modern cloud-first architecture. Active projects center on Azure Landing Zone migration, Terraform automation, and network hardening (private endpoints, NSGs), indicating a maturing infrastructure strategy; hiring acceleration across sales, support, and emerging data/engineering roles suggests they're scaling both client-facing and platform capabilities alongside this infrastructure shift.
Clarksons is a public company headquartered in London that provides integrated maritime services: shipbroking, research, financial advisory, port services, digital tools, and decarbonization consulting. The business serves shipping companies, traders, owners, and charterers across all sectors of the industry. With 1,001–5,000 employees distributed globally, the company generates intelligence-backed insights and market data to support client decision-making in shipping trade and the green energy transition. Their service model combines human expertise with proprietary technology and analytics platforms.
Clarksons runs on Azure infrastructure (SQL, Cosmos DB, DevOps, Monitor), Databricks for data, Power BI for analytics, ServiceNow for workflows, and Bloomberg for market data. They use Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and are currently adopting Azure Landing Zone architecture.
Primary initiatives include Azure Landing Zone database migration, Terraform automation, network security hardening (private endpoints, NSGs), process automation, disaster recovery testing, and a new product onboarding workflow. Modernizing digital services and managing system resilience are active areas.
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