Government and Infrastructure - Digital Engineering - Cloud Modernization Senior Engineer

Job :
McLean, VA, US, 22102

Salary: $122,900 - $204,900

Job Function:
Technology Consulting

Employer:

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Government and Infrastructure – Technology Consulting - Digital Engineering – Cloud Modernization Senior Engineer From strategy to execution, the Government and Infrastructure practice of Ernst & Young provides a full range of consulting and audit services to help our Federal, State, Local and Education clients implement new ideas to help achieve their mission outcomes. We deliver real change and measurable results through our diverse, high-performing teams, quality work at the highest professional standards, operational know-how from across our global organization, and creative and bold ideas that drive innovation.

We enable our government clients to achieve their mission of protecting the nation and serving the people; increasing public safety; improving healthcare for our military, veterans and citizens; delivering essential public services; and helping those in need.

The opportunity

Our Digital Engineering practice is helping organizations solve complex problems through purpose-led transformation. To achieve this mission, a diverse and talented team from around the globe are creating innovative digital experiences that help our clients succeed and thrive.

The Cloud Modernization Senior Engineer assesses how applications are hosted today, defines where and how they should run in the future, and builds and operates the secure cloud environment that powers EY's AI-enabled modernization factory. This role brings the infrastructure perspective to every rationalization recommendation — hosting constraints, cloud readiness, migration approach, and run-rate cost — and creates the reusable infrastructure patterns that later modernization waves will depend on.

Your key responsibilities

Inventory and assess current hosting for each application — on-premises data centers, virtualized (VM) infrastructure, AWS and Azure environments, and Kubernetes or container platforms — including operating systems, middleware, runtime versions and infrastructure dependencies.

Evaluate cloud readiness and identify blockers such as operating system or runtime currency, licensing, network dependencies, data-handling constraints and performance requirements.

Define target hosting patterns and migration approaches (rehost, replatform, containerize, or refactor to cloud-native and managed platform services) and produce effort, cost and run-rate estimates.

Build, configure and operate the secure cloud environment for the AI-enabled assessment platform in a FedRAMP-authorized government cloud region, including virtual networks, private endpoints, network security groups, managed identities, role-based access control, key management, logging and monitoring.

Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or Bicep) modules and environment templates that can be reused across later modernization waves.

Apply Zero Trust principles and NIST SP 800-53 control requirements to environment designs and produce the architecture and security documentation needed to support authorization.

Implement observability and cost monitoring; right-size resources and manage cloud consumption.

Identify shared-platform and infrastructure dependencies (middleware, identity, integration, backup and disaster recovery) that affect rationalization and sequencing decisions.

Document architectures, configurations and operational runbooks.

Lead target-state infrastructure architecture for…