De - cloud Platform Engineer - idp - gdsf02

DE-Cloud Platform Engineer-IDP-GDSF02

Location: Hyderabad

Salary: Competitive

Job description

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

Your role will be a Technology Lead, or Senior Technology Lead in the Cloud Engineering team. You will be responsible to be a part of the delivery of IT projects for our customers across the globe.

Your key responsibilities

• Implementing cloud-agnostic internal developer portals using Backstage or Port, enabling scalable service Catalog management and streamlined developer workflows and golden paths across environments and tenants.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across on-premises and multi-cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), ensuring consistent delivery practices.
• Automate Kubernetes-based deployments (AKS/EKS/GKE) using Helm charts and manage service mesh and traffic routing with Istio for enhanced observability and resilience.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform/ARM Template/Bicep.
• Manage configuration and orchestration using Ansible.
• Must be good in DevSecOps and Integrate Security tools in the CI/CD Pipeline such as SonarQube, Check Marx, White Source, Veracode, Fortify etc.
• Develop automation scripts using Bash, Python, Groovy, PowerShell, and leverage CLI tools (e.g., Azure CLI, AWS CLI) for operational tasks.
• Orchestrate end-to-end DevOps workflows using tools like ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Harness, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Maintain and optimize source control systems including Git and SVN, enforcing branching strategies and code quality standards.
• Innovate in building independent automation solutions.
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to integrate IDP capabilities into the developer ecosystem, enhancing productivity and governance.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of cloud-native services across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS offerings.
• Ensure cloud security best practices are followed, with a strong understanding of identity, access management, and network security in cloud environments.
• Comprehensive understanding of how IT operations are managed.

Skills and attributes for success

• Capability to develop system architecture design and high-level architecture for cloud-agnostic DevOps implementations, with integrated IDP platforms like Backstage and Port for developer self-service and workflow orchestration.
• Capability to assess and identify gaps in the maturity of customers' DevOps tools and processes, including IDP adoption readiness, developer experience metrics, and platform engineering maturity
• 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 and IDP 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 for projects of simple to medium complexity, with emphasis on Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE), Terraform, and Backstage/Port-based IDPs
• Capability to Assess and design instrumentation strategy for the applications being onboarded to Internal Developer Portals.
• 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 aligned with cloud-agnostic architecture principles, including Backstage/Port extensibility, plugin lifecycle management, and integration with CI/CD and IaC tools.
• Capability to Deliver best practices around provisioning, operations, and management of multi-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 teams in reviewing DevOps and IDP solutions, contributing to proposals and architecture decks
• 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 AI infused DevOps and Platform Engineering framework.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• BE/B.Tech/MCA with a sound industry experience of 6 to 8 years
• Cloud Computing knowledge in multi cloud environments (Azure,AWS & GCP)
• Implementing and managing Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) using platforms like Backstage, Port etc.
• DevOps – Setting up CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
• Hands-on experience with containerization, including Docker & Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE)
• Scripting Knowledge on PowerShell, python, Groovy, Shell Scripting and cloud native CLIs
• Must be good in IAC tools such as Terraform or ARM or Bicep
• Must be good in Config Management Tools such as Ansible or Chef or Puppet
• Expertise in Golden Paths creation for end-to-end developer workflows.

Preferred Skills

• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
• Microsoft Certified: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)
• Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associates
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• GitHub Actions
• Github Copilot
• Redhat Certified Ansible Specialist
• Good to have knowledge in Terraform Cloud, Ansible Tower

Your people responsibilities

• Foster teamwork and lead by example
• 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/ 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
• Test Automation Tools – Selenium/Cucumber
• 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