Azure Cloud Architect

at  EY

At EY, you’ll 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 we’re 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.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a self-driven Cloud Architect to plan and design the technology solution for client engagements.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

• Deep understanding of cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options (preferably in Microsoft Azure and AWS).
• Expert in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain-specific microservices on multi-platform/hybrid clouds (such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Rackspace, VMware, or OpenStack).
• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability etc.
• Deep experience in IAAS (with good fundamentals in network and security) as well as PAAS. Good understanding of all Azure services and ability to choose the right service for a workload among multiple Azure services preferred.
• Strategic business acumen and understanding of organizational strategy and ability to design information systems to deliver that strategy.
• Strong expertise in DevOps, Agile methodologies, containers, CI/CD and tools like VSTS, Jira.
• Experience with software and product development lifecycle (incl. coding, coding standards and reviews, source control, testing, debugging, build, deployment and operations).
• Strong understanding of one or more development platform .Net technologies (C#), Java / JavaScript.
• Familiarity in the following areas, but not limited to:
• Front end / UI technologies including frameworks such as React/Angular.js
• REST / Webservices (with high performance, multi-tenancy, global, scalable elements)
• SQL, XML, JSON, Linux, ELK stack, Splunk, Solr, GIT, Ant/Maven, Jenkins
• Familiarity with Data Ingestion, Analytics, AI technologies

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You will enable, drive and lead initiatives focusing on establishing and embedding cloud architecture & design governance across the organization.
Key functions include:

Lead initiatives for setting up cloud architecture & technology strategies, standards, governance and best practices for the whole organization.

• Lead the initiatives to identify right set of cloud technologies to be used for specific type of solutions and drive the effort to templatize and automate those technologies to be used at scale in all products and applications across organization.
• Architect & Design solutions for cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure) which are optimal, secure, efficient, scalable, resilient and reliable, and at the same time. are compliant with EY cloud standards and policies.
• Design strategies and tools to deploy, monitor, and administer Cloud applications and the underlying services for Cloud (e.g. Azure, AWS, private cloud)
• Architect and implement DevSecOps processes and CI/CD pipelines using tools like VSTS, Jira, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef.
• Build quick POCs and write some code for exploring new technology solutions.

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE, YOU MUST HAVE

• At least 3-5 years of deep technology experience at very large enterprises or web scale product companies.
• At least 3-5 years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.) on cloud.
• Consulting experience is a plus.
• Experience in presenting ideas, papers, patents to varied audiences.
• Certificates requirements:
• Microsoft Azure related certifications
• Other cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud are accepted