DE - Cloud Platform Architect - AWS - MRK - GDSN02

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Platform Engineering Architect

The opportunity

Your role will be an Architect in the Cloud Engineering team. You will be responsible to be a part of the delivery of Cloud Technology based projects for our customers across the globe.

Your key responsibilities

• Design and Conduct Cloud and DevSecOps maturity assessment.
• Provide Solution and Responsible for Architecting end to end CI/CD Solution for automating software delivery for various clients in on-prem and Cloud.
• Actively participate in high level team activities such as suggesting Architecture improvements, recommending process improvements, and conducting tool evaluations.
• Served as a hands-on subject matter expert for DevOps and Automation in an AWS infrastructure.
• Provide solution for Infrastructure automation using IaC tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation Ansible
• Deploying and managing enterprise scale Kubernetes cluster
• Automate Kubernetes-based deployments (EKS) using Helm charts and manage service mesh and traffic routing with Istio for enhanced observability and resilience.
• Mentor the team to implement CI/CD pipeline for technology stack like: Java, Angular, .Net, Python, Bigdata.
• Must be good in DevSecOps and Integrate Security tools in the CI/CD Pipeline such as SonarQube, Wiz, Black duck, Coverity, CheckMarx, WhiteSource, Veracode, Fortify etc.
• Write scripts for automation using Linux Bash, Python, Groovy, PowerShell. Hands on experience with the PowerShell and CLI.
• Utilize various open-source technologies to develop DevOps Scripts
• Design framework with various tools to implement orchestrate solutions
• Build independent web-based tools to automate
• Experience working with AWS SDK
• Good Knowledge on AWS & AWS PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS offerings
• Good Knowledge on AWS Security
• Good Knowledge on AWS Observability and resilience.
• Configure and manage data sources like MySQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop etc
• Understand how various systems work on cloud
• Understand how IT operations are managed
• Design branching strategies for source control including SVN, GIT, Bitbucket
• Evaluating, implementing, and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Good communication and presentation skills.

Skills and attributes for success

• Capability to develop system architecture design and high-level architecture document of DevOps implementation.
• Capability to assess and identify gaps in the maturity of customersDevOpstools & process adoption.
• Capability to identify, communicate, and mitigate the risks in the project.
• Capability to create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
• Capability to conductDevOpsworkshops across organization units to align theDevOpsbenefits and implementation roadmap.
• Ability to communicate with customers, Good analytical skills, flexibility, ability to lead/help the team in day-to-day tasks.
• Capability to Design, build and implementDevOpssolutions to simple and medium complexity projects.
• Capability to Assess and design instrumentation strategy for the applications being onboarded toDevOpsplatform.
• Capability to manage AWS cloud infrastructure and platform.
• Capability to deploy & manage/troubleshoot production grade Kubernetes cluster and deploy application to it.
• Capability to design, build, and implement DevOps solutions for complex projects with emphasis onKubernetes (EKS),Terraform
• Capability to develop Terraform IaC module and deploy IaC script with Terraform and DevOps pipeline.
• Capability to Design and implement monitoring and observability with various monitoring tools.
• Capability toImplement various SRE practices like resilience, reduce toils, measure, and optimize the systems on agreed reliability.
• Strong understanding in agile methodologies
• Capability to Design solutions confirming to the best practices of AWS Well Architected framework.
• Capability toDeliver best practices around provisioning, operations, and management of cloud environment.
• Capability Design highly available and fault‑tolerant architectures leveraging multi‑AZ, auto‑healing, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Capability to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards through automated vulnerability detection, patching, and continuous security monitoring.
• Capability to Manage communication and deliverables from offshore team
• Capability to Assist the team in debugging & troubleshooting imperative and declarative scripts.
• Capability to Assist and support presales team in reviewing theDevOpssolutions.
• Capability to identify software packages and solutions that could meet client solution requirements and develop requests for proposal (RFP’s) from these vendors.Assist clients in the evaluation of the resulting proposals, including the package capabilities and fit to the requirements (business and technology), vendor proposals for pricing and support.​
• Capability to design and developed GenAI infused DevOps framework.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 12+ Years of experience and strong working experience in Cloud andDevOpstransformation projects.
• Directing and executing change programmes with a DevOps transition.
• Defining change management strategy with the understanding of business drivers and strategic objectives, organizational behaviours, processes and approaches.
• Stakeholder management, with the ability to operate and manage expectations on a senior management/executive level.
• Tailoring the DevSecOps approaches based on the industry, current maturity, and organizational set-up, and expected pace of transition.
• Advanced level of Kubernetes and AWS cloud platform knowledge.
• Architecting end-to-end CI/CD Solution for automating software delivery for various clients in on-prem and Cloud.
• Designing IAC automation with end-to-end DevOps Solution for automating cloud Infra deployment & migration.
• Evaluating and improving business processes and business change management processes.
• Experience & exposure to AWS Cloud
• Design and implement AWS cloud security controls framework
• Design and implement AWS cloud observability & resilience framework
• Setting upDevOpsdashboards using tools like AWS Cloud watch, Hygiea, Grafana and Kibana.
• Scripting knowledge using Python/Groovy/PowerShell
• Working experience in Docker & Kubernetes (EKS)
• Must be good in IaC tools Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Must be good in Config Mgmt. tools like Ansible or Chef or Puppet

Preferred Skills

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer- Professional
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate / Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer- Professional
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Redhat Certified Ansible Specialist
• Good to have knowledge in Terraform Cloud, Ansible Tower
• Experience with GitOps methodology
• Experience working on CMMI / Agile / SAFE methodologies
• Experience setting up static code analysis using SonarQube
• Experience setting up vulnerability scanning using tools like Blackduck, Coverity & OWASP
• Experience in integrating unit test, code coverage, static code analysis and functional testing in the continuous integration pipeline.
• Experience in designing and implementing log monitoring
• Knowledge in helm chart package management and Istio service mesh.
• Setting up DevOps dashboards using tools like AWS Cloud watch, Hygiea, Grafana and Kibana.

Your people responsibilities

• Foster teamwork and lead by example
• Manage a team of DevOps engineers
• Participating in the organization-wide people initiatives
• Ability to travel in accordance with client and other job requirements
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; writing, publishing,and conference-levelpresentation skills a plus

Technologies and Tools

• Cloud platform - AWS
• SDLC Methodologies: Agile /Scrum
• Version Control Tools – GitHub/ Bitbucket/GitLab
• CI/CD Automation Tools – GitHub Action /Jenkins/ CloudBees CI, CD / Bamboo/ Octopus /Team City/ AWS DevOps / Harness
• Container Management Tools – Docker/Kubernetes/EKS
• Application Performance Management Tools – AWS Cloud Watch/Prometheus/ Dynatrace/ AppDynamics
• Monitoring Tools – AWS Cloud Watch /ELK/Splunk/ Datadog/ Grafana
• IAC Tools – Terraform/ Cloud Formation
• Config Management Tools – Chef/ Puppet/ Ansible
• Artifact Management Tools – Jfrog Artifactory/Nexus/CloudRepo
• Scripting - Python/Groovy/PowerShell/Shell Scripting
• SAST/ DAST: SonarQube / Veracode/ Fortify/ Blackduck/Coverity/OWASP
• GitOps Tool – Argo CD/ Flux CD

What we look for

• Has successfully demonstrated CI/CD Automation skills and technologies during many relevant projects
• Strong experience in the use of DevOps Tools and technologies, including container technologies.
• Proven experience in Infrastructure Automation (IAC Tools + Config Mgmt. Tool) and experience in Application Automation (Jenkins or CloudBees CI/CD or AWS DevOps)
• Advanced level of Docker and Kubernetes knowledge to manage production grade cluster
• Working experience in AWS and knowledge in cloud Architecture strategy.
• Good Exposure in Cloud and Container Monitoring and logging and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of AWS Cloud related concepts and technologies, and maintains an in-depth knowledge of the area
• Experience on cloud observability, security and resiliency
• Experience designing and conducting research and experiments with recently developed technologies

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 disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills, and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you : We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership : We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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