Cloud Engineer - Manager - Consulting - Location OPEN

EY is a global leader in assurance, consulting, tax, and transactions, dedicated to building a better working world. In this role, you will manage and deliver processes, solutions, and projects, focusing on quality and risk management while engaging with clients to define user requirements and develop solutions across various platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Develop solutions to complex problems, recommending changes to policies and establishing procedures that impact your work area
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Provide direction and feedback to team members, ensuring successful task completion
• Lead one or more infrastructure workstreams, driving execution and delivery
• Work closely with development teams and participate in planning sessions to achieve high level of availability, reliability and performance of their service and platform requirements
• Collaborate with other teams (Platform, Security) to align infrastructure with application requirements
• Stay apprised of work and technology in use across all team workstreams
• Implement automated solutions for builds and deployments (CI / CD)
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
• Automate the provisioning of Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
• Automate, optimize and drive efficiency in processes, tools and communication across teams
• Apply SRE best practices, establish standards and policies for continuous improvements
• Proficient in Agile delivery and development methodologies
• Experienced in application delivery processes and application development tools
• Strong understanding of quality assurance and testing practices
• Knowledgeable in system development lifecycle and technology integration
• Provide depth and breadth in cloud and networking infrastructure best practices
• Act as an approver for production changes and pull requests (PRs) to maintain system stability, ensuring adherence to security, compliance, and operational best practices
• Proficient in Agile delivery and development methodologies
• Experienced in application delivery processes and application development tools
• Strong understanding of quality assurance and testing practices
• Knowledgeable in system development lifecycle and technology integration

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree required (4-year degree)
• Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years of relevant experience
• Proven record operating High Availability services on Azure (4+ years)
• Expert understanding of core Azure services such as but not limited to: Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps (or Azure App Service), Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Monitor (Log Analytics & Application Insights), and Azure Managed Prometheus
• Experience designing, deploying and managing container orchestration platforms using Kubernetes
• Experience implementing SRE standards for Resiliency and Scalability of microservice architectures in Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform
• Experience implementing SLIs, SLOs and Error Budgets as part of development/delivery practices
• Experience monitoring container based microservices & Cloud Platform services
• Use of CI/CD tools - preferably GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
• Knowing agile methodology and being able to work by its principals
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-starter and strong, quick problem solving skills
• A passion for delivering commercial software products and platforms to market
• Be deeply technical and constantly in a state of learning
• Able to communicate clearly and efficiently with a variety of audiences including developers, clients, customers, partners and executives
• Fearless in getting “hands-on” with technology and execution
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering processes
• Deep understanding and interest in cloud and distributed systems architectures
• Comfortable with ambiguity with a drive for clarity
• Experience leading and growing technical talent (for software engineering managers)
• Experience in leading teams and managing change effectively
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• A proven track record of building and managing client relationships
• Experience in managing change effectively
• A track record of leading teams successfully