The opportunity We are seeking a self-driven Cloud Architect or a Cloud Manager to plan and design the technology solution for client engagements.
This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within our organization.
Your Key ResponsibilitiesYou will enable, drive and lead initiatives focusing on establishing and embedding cloud architecture & design governance across the organization.
Key functions include:
- Lead cloud assessments, architecture workshops and technical strategy discussions, translating findings into actionable transformation roadmaps.
- 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.
- Architect and build AI-enabled cloud platforms using AI Engineering best practices, including LLMs, RAG and agents, with scalability, security and responsible AI embedded by design.
- Lead the operationalization of AI solutions through automated delivery, evaluation, guardrails and AI observability to manage quality, reliability, performance and cost.
- Establish reusable cloud platform patterns, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD and engineering automation.
- 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 DevOps 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.
Skills and Attributes for Success- Cloud Architecture: Deep experience architecting enterprise cloud platforms (preferably Azure) across compute, networking, storage, identity, security, data and managed services. Experience with AWS or other cloud experience is an asset.
- Cloud Native: Strong architecture and hands-on experience with AKS/Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, microservices and distributed platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Reliability & Resilience: Strong understanding of SRE, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, incident management, capacity, performance and production readiness.
- Security & Governance: Experience architecting secure cloud and container environments using identity, RBAC, secrets management, network security, policy and compliance controls.
- Business & Client Leadership: Strong business acumen, executive communication and stakeholder management, translating organizational strategy into architecture decisions and actionable roadmaps.
- Automation & Platform Engineering: Strong experience with Terraform/Bicep, GitOps, CI/CD, Python/PowerShell and reusable cloud platform patterns and engineering automation.
- Software Engineering: Experience across the product lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, testing, debugging, build, deployment and operations.
- Application & Integration Engineering: Experience with one or more programming languages, such as Python, C# or Java, along with REST APIs, web services and scalable, multi-tenant application integration patterns.
- Cloud Observability: Strong experience with Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor, including telemetry architecture, metrics, logs, distributed tracing, SLOs and root-cause analysis.
- Architecture Leadership: Ability to lead technical assessments, architecture workshops, design governance and multidisciplinary engineering teams through complex cloud engagements.
- Cloud Modernization: Experience defining application, infrastructure and platform modernization and migration strategies aligned with business and operational priorities.
- Supporting Technologies: Familiarity with Linux, SQL, XML/JSON, data ingestion and analytics, React/Angular, and complementary logging, search and build tools.
- AI Engineering: Experience architecting and operationalizing AI-enabled cloud platforms using LLMs, RAG, vector search, agents, evaluation, guardrails, responsible AI and AI observability.
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.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management and ability to translate technology strategy into actionable roadmaps.
- 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
What we look for Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you'll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.
What we offer At EY, our Total Rewards package supports our commitment to creating a leading people culture - built on high-performance teaming - where everyone can achieve their potential and contribute to building a better working world for our people, our clients and our communities. It's one of the many reasons we repeatedly win awards for being a great place to work.
We offer a competitive compensation package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:
- Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
- Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you
The salary range for this job in Ontario and British Columbia is $110,000 to $160,000/ Victoria - $100,00 to $150,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.
