EY Platform Engineer - Senior Consulting Location OPEN 

United States, Texas, Austin 

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Consulting – Tech Consulting – Digital Engineering – Platform Engineer – Senior

Platform Engineering - Technology – Engineering & Systems Integration – Technical Engineering – Senior

Join our dynamic Technology – Engineering & Systems Integration team as a Senior Technical Engineer, where you'll have the opportunity to design, develop, deliver, and maintain innovative solutions and infrastructure. This role is pivotal in capturing user requirements and ensuring that design and technical specifications meet both user and business requirements, offering you a chance to make a significant impact in our Business Platforms practices such as SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Guidewire 1.

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Technical Engineer, you will be at the forefront of contributing to the delivery of processes, solutions, and projects. You will apply your judgment and select appropriate methodologies to inform recommendations, navigate success criteria, barriers, risks, and issues. This role presents an opportunity to challenge yourself, grow your skills, and contribute to our team's success. Expect regular travel as needed by our external clients.

Key responsibilities include:

• May play an active role of technical or development lead for individual feature development.
• Review code and other related deliverables from the development team and offshore resources.
• Implement technology platforms for the clients, including selection and installation of software and hardware platforms and architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy on-prem and cloud-based applications and services.
• Directly engage with software development teams to configure code quality and delivery standards.
• With a focus on improving software release quality and speed, manage, and optimize continuous integration and deployment processes using tools like Jenkins, Github Actions, Azure ADO or similar.
• Be part of a team responsible for delivering innovative technologies and infrastructure improvements through automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps methodologies.
• Deep understanding of system administration, debugging, orchestration, automation techniques, architecture components, cloud, CI/CD build systems, agile practices, and technical writing
• Able to operate with a level technical independence in most situations and help facilitate UAT and Demos to the client

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, you should demonstrate a blend of technical expertise and business acumen, along with the ability to build and manage relationships effectively.

• Experience in Cloud Computing Architecture, Configuration Management, and Database Engineering
• Proficiency in DevOps Practices, Hardware Installation and Support, and IT Environment Design and Management
• Strong skills in Network Engineering and Technical Architecture
• Ability to drive outcomes, exhibit emotional agility, and foster hybrid collaboration.
• Ability and desire to take ownership of work assignments and drive tasks to completion

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Typically, no less than 2 - 4 years relevant experience in professional platform engineering experience or similar role in software development and system administration.
• Strong programming language experience in either Python or Go
• Good experience in popular cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure.
• Foundation knowledge of container technologies, such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes to manage application deployment and scaling.
• Expertise with version control systems and code collaboration platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or similar.
• Command-line proficiency and an ability to configure and manage systems, local and cloud based.
• Strong knowledge of at least one programming languages like Python, Golang.
• Self-sufficiency in issue identification, debugging and resolution, with the ability to work independently and with a team.
• Strong organizational skills, coupled with good communication abilities, to effectively coordinate with various internal teams and stakeholders.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Professional certification in relevant fields (specific to service line policies)
• Experience in leading teams and coordinating with junior colleagues
• Proven track record of successful project delivery and client satisfaction
• Experience building cloud automated pipelines with cloud container services like EKS, AKS, ECS, and ACS or similar.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe

• 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.