EY DET-DevOps Architect-Azure-GDSF02 

India, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram 

484881922

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 Azure infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or ARM or Bicep and Ansible.
• 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, CheckMarx, WhiteSource, Veracode, Fortify etc.
• Write scripts for automation using Linux Bash, Python, Groovy, PowerShell. Hands on experience with the Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell.
• 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 Azure SDK
• Good Knowledge on Azure & Azure PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS offerings
• Good Knowledge on Azure Security
• Configure and manage data sources like MySQL, Mongo, Cosmos DB, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop etc
• Understand how IT operations are managed in industry
• 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 customers DevOps tools & 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 conduct DevOps workshops across organization units to align the DevOps benefits 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 implement DevOps solutions to simple and medium complexity projects.
• Capability to Assess and design instrumentation strategy for the applications being onboarded to DevOps platform.
• Capability to Design and implement monitoring and observability with various monitoring tools.
• Capability to Implement various SRE practices like 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 Microsoft Azure Well Architected framework.
• Capability to Deliver best practices around provisioning, operations, and management of cloud environment.
• 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 the DevOps solutions.
• 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.​

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 12+ Years of experience and strong working experience in Cloud and DevOps transformation 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.
• 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 Azure Cloud
• Scripting knowledge on Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Python/Groovy/PowerShell
• Working experience in Docker/Docker Swarm or Kubernetes (Any container technologies)
• Must have good knowledge on IaC tools Terraform or Bicep or ARM
• Must be good in Config Mgmt. tools like Ansible or Chef or Puppet
• Deployment Strategies
• Hands-on Azure experience

Preferred Skills

• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associates
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• GitHub Action
• Redhat Certified Ansible Specialist
• Good knowledge in Terraform Cloud, Ansible Tower
• Experience with GenAI implementation with Chat GPT and OpenAI
• Experience with GitOps methodology
• Experience setting up static code analysis using SonarQube
• Experience setting up vulnerability scanning using tools like 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 Hygiea, Grafana and Kibana.
• Experience working on CMMI / Agile / SAFE methodologies

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-level presentation skills a plus

Technologies and Tools

• Cloud platform - Azure
• SDLC Methodologies: Agile /Scrum
• Version Control Tools – GitHub/ Bitbucket/GitLab
• CI/CD Automation Tools – Azure DevOps/ GitHub Action/ Bamboo/ Team City / Harness/ Octopus
• Container Management Tools – Docker/Kubernetes/Docker Swarm
• Application Performance Management Tools – Prometheus/ Dynatrace/ AppDynamics
• Monitoring Tools – Splunk/ Datadog/ Grafana
• IAC Tools – Terraform/ARM Templates/ Bicep
• Config Management Tools – Chef/ puppet/ Ansible
• Artifact Management Tools – Jfrog Artifactory/Nexus/CloudRepo/Azure Artifactory
• Scripting - Python/Groovy/PowerShell/Shell Scripting
• SAST/ DAST - SonarQube / Veracode/ Fortify
• GitOps Tool – Argo CD/ Flux CD
• GenAI Technology – Chat GPT, OpenAI

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 using Azure DevOps
• Working experience in Azure and strong knowledge in cloud Architecture strategy.
• Good Exposure in Cloud and Container Monitoring and logging and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of Cloud related concepts and technologies, and maintains an in-depth knowledge of the area
• 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.

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.