At EY youll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are with the global scale support inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And were counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself and a better working world for all.
Career Family Cloud Platform Architect
Role Type Full Time
The opportunity
Your role will be a Architect or Senior Architect in the Cloud Engineering team. You will be responsible to be a part of the delivery of IT projects for our customers across the globe.
Key Description
Terraform & Azure
- Uses Terraform for AKS networking identities
- Understands Azure RBAC Managed Identity ACR
- Understands Azure Networking Application Gateway WAF
Helm & Kubernetes
- Can review vendor Helm charts
- Manages Helm upgrades rollbacks and values per environment
- Strong AKS troubleshooting (pods networking RBAC upgrades)
- Can create/update manifests for Kubernetes resource deployment
DevOps / Pipelines
- Owns CI/CD pipelines for Helm deployments
- Enforces gated releases (nonprod prod)
- Understands security scans approvals and rollbacks
- Experience with GitHub
Vendor Governance
- Defines vendor vs platform responsibilities
- Reviews upgrades enforces standards manages incidents
Security & Operations
- Namespaced RBAC secrets management
- Monitoring logs health checks and rollback readiness
Communication & Administration
- Clear concise communication between contractors and associates
- Participate in an on-call rotation that may fall outside of standard working hours
- Ability to implement production change requests during their assigned shift
- Strong decision-making skills and a self-motivator
- Participatory in Product meetings providing valuable feedback
- On-Camera during Product team meetings
- Willingness to learn new skills specific to Data Quality to fully support the Product team down the road
- Ability to work US Business Day time for the first 4 weeks of the role.
Your key responsibilities
- Design implement and manage infrastructure on Azure using Terraform including AKS clusters networking components and identity services.
- Administer and optimize Kubernetes workloads with a strong focus on AKS including deployment scaling troubleshooting and upgrades.
- Manage Helm-based application deployments including reviewing vendor charts handling upgrades/rollbacks and maintaining environment-specific configurations.
- Own and maintain CI/CD pipelines (primarily GitHub-based) to support automated secure and reliable Helm deployments across environments.
- Enforce controlled release processes with proper gating from non-production to production environments.
- Monitor system health logs and performance ensuring high availability and rollback readiness.
- Implement and enforce security best practices including RBAC secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
- Define and govern vendor engagement models including responsibilities upgrade reviews incident management and adherence to platform standards.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including vendors contractors and internal stakeholders to ensure seamless delivery and operations.
- Participate in on-call rotations and support production deployments including handling change requests outside standard working hours when required.
- Actively contribute to product discussions providing technical insights and continuous improvement feedback.
Skills and attributes for success
- Experience 8 to 12 years
- Strong expertise in Terraform and Azure services such as AKS Azure RBAC Managed Identities Azure Container Registry (ACR) and networking components (Application Gateway WAF).
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture troubleshooting (pods networking RBAC) and cluster lifecycle management.
- Proficiency in Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments including chart customization and environment-specific configurations.
- Solid experience in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub including release gating approvals and rollback strategies.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security practices including secrets management access control and compliance enforcement.
- Ability to manage vendor relationships enforce governance standards and handle incident management effectively.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive self-driven approach.
- Clear and concise communication skills with the ability to interact effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong decision-making capability and adaptability in a fast-paced production-critical environment.
- Willingness to continuously learn and expand into areas such as Data Quality and product-specific domains.
To qualify for the role you must have
- Proven experience working with Azure cloud services and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes (preferably AKS) in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience with Helm including chart management upgrades and rollbacks.
- Practical experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of Azure networking security (RBAC Managed Identity) and container ecosystem (ACR).
- Experience implementing monitoring logging and operational readiness practices in cloud-native environments.
- Exposure to vendor management and governance in enterprise environments.
- Ability to support production systems including participation in on-call rotations.
- Flexibility to align with US business hours initially (first 4 weeks) and collaborate with global teams.
- Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
What we offer
EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations Argentina China India the Philippines Poland and the UK and with teams from all EY service lines geographies and sectors playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business GDS you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. Well introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people learning skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.
- Continuous learning: Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: Well provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
- Transformative leadership: Well give you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
EY Building a better working world
EY exists to build a better working world helping to create long-term value for clients people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
Enabled by data and technology diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow transform and operate.
Working across assurance consulting law strategy tax and transactions EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
