Azure Cloud Platform Engineer - GPS

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.  Join EY and help to build a better working world.

 

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

 

This is a remote opportunity that can be performed within Continental United States.

 

You will be responsible for delivery of solutions and infrastructure development tasks, establishing automated and frictionless consumption capabilities for cloud platforms supporting large and complex projects. You are expected to have strong design and hands-on development experience on Azure cloud app and infrastructure automation and CI/CD for enterprise.  You are expected to bridge organizations where core capabilities are developed and support evolution of cloud capabilities in Azure Gov without technical debt.  You will be expected to fully understand business and user requirements, ensuring design specifications are meeting the business requirements.  You will also support junior engineers and work in a collaborative environment, exercising your creativity and innovation.

 

Your key responsibilities

 

• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for scalable and secure cloud environments using Bicep, and ARM templates.
• Engineer, automate and deploy platform solutions (Infrastructure & Application) to meet and exceed expectations of Product Managers (involve and participate, architecture and security of the platform)
• Build and deploy (CI/CD) using tools such as Azure DevOps Server, GIT, Helm, Ansible Command Line Interface (CLI)).
• Package and deploy containerized applications eg Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps (ACA), Docker, Helm etc.
• Implement application code packaging, deployment strategies, and container orchestration.
• Develop and manage base container images and support hardened OS images (e.g., Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)).
• Proactively evolve and apply DevSecOps methodologies, standards and leading practices.
• Independently research and remediate/troubleshoot day-to-day issues.
• Apply modern development standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, security standards, usability design standards, as appropriate.
• Ensure quality through use of manual and automated controls.
• Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout full lifecycle.
• Using critical thinking, consider the art of the possible, compare various options based on feasibility and impact, propose impactful plans and roadmaps that balance tactical and strategic needs

 

Skills and attributes for success

 

• Design, implementation and administration experience of containerized application implementations using Azure Kubernetes Services and other PaaS services.
• Proficient in scripting in PowerShell, Python, JavaScript and Ansible).
• Ability to design and improve infrastructure (IaC) and application development processes.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Policies and Initiatives.
• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by the company.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux and Windows se