GPS - Cloud Services Support Engineer Associate

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From strategy to execution, the Government & Public Sector (GPS) practice of Ernst & Young LLP 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. EY is ready to help our government build a better working world.

 

Our GPS Technology Organization is a structure within the US GPS practice that implements and maintains a new operate and technology model designed specifically to support U.S. defense and Government engagements.

 

The opportunity

 

You will be a key member of a dedicated operations team with responsibility of assuring overall health of core cloud services commonly used by solutions deployed in Azure Gov, making recommendations on their continuous health, performance and reliability.

 

You will monitor service health and their hosting environments in Azure Gov for exceptions, review their performance, manage demand planning and capacity utilization. Your focus will be on stability and uptime with an emphasis on quick incident resolution and automated solutions that prevent future outages. You will support promotion cycles of solutions, testing and executing version upgrades and patches.

 

You will be expected to keep up with industry developments and standards, ensuring innovative approaches to operate and support data environments.

 

Your key responsibilities

 

• Lead delivery of on-going maintenance and management of pre-production, production services, setting timelines and monitoring activities in alignment with business requirements
• Contribute to the development of implementation plans for dealing with complex requests for change
• Review new product support documentation and design release packages for solutions
• Monitor effectiveness of installations and ensure that appropriate recommendations for change are made
• Participate in reviews of environments and the adaption of findings to existing environments, including capacity and performance management recommendations,
• Be familiar with internal control standards and contribute to the development of procedures
• Develop relationships with other engineering groups to gain a strong understanding of products and services as well as key business processes and apply technical support engineering expertise to ensure solutions are property man