Cloud Engineer - Manager - Consulting

Location:

Anywhere in Country

At EY, the Platforms Practice specializes in mission‑critical, intelligent platforms. The role is a Manager in Application Design and Development with responsibility for leading the delivery of processes, solutions, and projects, ensuring quality and risk management.

• Develop solutions to complex problems, recommend changes to policies, and establish procedures impacting the work area.
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for achieving results.
• Provide direction and feedback to team members, ensuring successful task completion.
• Engage regularly with external clients, participating in working sessions and leading work streams from planning through execution and closure.
• Travel may be required as needed by external clients.

• Lead one or more infrastructure work streams, driving execution and delivery.
• Work closely with development teams and participate in planning sessions to achieve high availability, reliability and performance of services and platform requirements.
• Collaborate with Platform, Security and other teams to align infrastructure with application requirements.
• Implement automated solutions for builds and deployments (CI/CD).
• Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Automate provisioning of infrastructure using tools such as Terraform.
• Apply SRE best practices, establish standards and policies for continuous improvement.
• 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 to maintain system stability.

• Strong hands‑on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
• Expert understanding of core Azure services such as Azure Functions, Container Apps, Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, AKS, Azure Monitor, 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.
• Experience with CI/CD tools – preferably Git Hub Actions and Azure Dev Ops.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and ability to work by its principles.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Self‑starter with quick problem‑solving skills.

• Bachelor’s degree required (4‑year degree).
• Typically 4–6 years of relevant experience.
• Proven record operating high‑availability services on Azure (4+ years).
• Proficiency in Azure’s core services and containers.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with SRE standards.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with SLIs, SLOs and Error Budgets.
• Experience monitoring container‑based microservices and cloud platform services.
• Experience with CI/CD tools.
• Knowledge of agile methodology.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Self‑starter.

• Passion for delivering commercial software products and platforms to market.
• Deep technical learning mindset.
• Clear communication with developers, clients, partners and executives.
• Hands‑on execution with technology.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering processes.
• Deep interest in cloud and distributed systems architectures.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
• Experience leading and growing technical talent.
• Experience in leading teams and managing change effectively.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Track record of building and managing client relationships.

Technical proficiency combined with emotional agility, digital fluency, and commercial acumen. Ability to build trust with clients, lead teams through change, and innovate.

Base salary range: $142,600 to $261,500 (US geographic locations). Salary ranges vary by metro area. Total Rewards includes health coverage, retirement plans, and paid time off. Hybrid work model with 40‑60% onsite for client‑serving roles. Flexible vacation policy.

EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to protected characteristics. EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.