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At EY, our purpose is to shape the future. The insights and quality services we provide help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and economies all over the world. We develop outstanding leaders who are teamed to deliver our promises to all our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.
The opportunity
The Platforms Practice specializes in mission-critical, intelligent platforms for the world's most ambitious organizations. Using our product-driven, AI-centric approach, we empower organizations to build for the intelligent digital future. Our elite team of product leaders, data scientists, designers, and software engineers enable our clients to solve their most complex product challenges and positively impact people and the world. Software engineers are problem solvers. While most have deep expertise in specific areas of the technology stack (front end, back end, data, security etc.), all are comfortable swimming across lanes. This is really important in delivering the product and platform outcomes that our customers expect.
In this role, you will be responsible for identifying and defining user/customer requirements while focusing on developing user interfaces (UI) across various platforms including mobile, web, and tablets. You will engage in coding, programming, and creating specifications to deliver development services that align with business requirements.
Your key responsibilities
As a Manager in Application Design and Development, you will lead the effective management and delivery of processes, solutions, and projects, ensuring a strong focus on quality and risk management. This role presents exciting challenges and opportunities for growth, allowing you to apply your expertise in guiding others and recommending quality solutions. You will engage regularly with external clients, actively participating in working sessions and leading workstreams from planning through execution and closure. Travel may be required as needed by external clients.
Develop solutions to complex problems, recommending changes to policies and establishing procedures that impact your work area.
Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Provide direction and feedback to team members, ensuring successful task completion.
Skills and attributes for success
To thrive in this role, you will need a blend of technical and business skills that will make a significant impact. Your ability to build and manage relationships, communicate effectively, and lead teams will be essential.
We are seeking a team member with strong hands-on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. This role focuses on designing, provisioning, and running the underlying cloud and container platform that application teams rely on in production. The goal is to support our clients to transform their business through technology. You will work with customers' technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver high quality systems with a focus on reliability and excellent customer experience, becoming a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement. As a Manager, you will lead the effective management and delivery of processes, solutions, and projects, ensuring a strong focus on quality and risk management. This role presents exciting challenges and opportunities for growth, allowing you to apply your expertise in guiding others and recommending quality solutions. You will engage regularly with external clients, actively participating in working sessions and leading workstreams from planning through execution and closure.
As a Cloud Engineer, you will:
Lead one or more infrastructure workstreams, driving execution and delivery
Work closely with development teams and participate in planning sessions to achieve high level of availability, reliability and performance of their service and platform requirements
Collaborate with other teams (Platform, Security) to align infrastructure with application requirements
Stay apprised of work and technology in use across all team workstreams
Implement automated solutions for builds and deployments (CI / CD)
Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
Automate the provisioning of Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
Automate, optimize and drive efficiency in processes, tools and communication across teams
Apply SRE best practices, establish standards and policies for continuous improvements
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 (PRs) to maintain system stability, ensuring adherence to security, compliance, and operational best practices
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.
To qualify for the role, you must have
A Bachelor's degree required (4-year degree).
Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years of relevant experience.
Proven record operating High Availability services on Azure (4+ years)
Expert understanding of core Azure services such as but not limited to: Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps (or Azure App Service), Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Monitor (Log Analytics & Application Insights), 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 as part of development/delivery practices
Experience monitoring container based microservices & Cloud Platform services
Use of CI/CD tools - preferably GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
Knowing agile methodology and being able to work by its principals
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Self-starter and strong, quick problem solving skills
Ideally, you'll also have
A passion for delivering commercial software products and platforms to market
Be deeply technical and constantly in a state of learning
Able to communicate clearly and efficiently with a variety of audiences including developers, clients, customers, partners and executives
Fearless in getting "hands-on" with technology and execution
Strong understanding of modern software engineering processes
Deep understanding and interest in cloud and distributed systems architectures
Comfortable with ambiguity with a drive for clarity
Experience leading and growing technical talent (for software engineering managers)
Experience in leading teams and managing change effectively.
Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
A proven track record of building and managing client relationships.
Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
Experience in managing change effectively.
A track record of leading teams successfully.
What we look for
We seek individuals who are not only technically proficient but also possess the qualities of emotional agility, digital fluency, and commercial acumen. Top performers demonstrate the ability to build trust and value with clients while leading teams through change and innovation.
What we offer you
At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more .
We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $142,600 to $261,500. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $171,200 to $297,200. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
Under our flexible vacation policy, you'll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You'll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
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