Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer

Career Family : Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer

The opportunity

We are the only professional services organization who has a separate business dedicated exclusively to the financial services marketplace. Join Digital Engineering Team and you will work with multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to deliver a global perspective. Aligned to key industry groups including Asset management, Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Private Equity, Health, Government, Power and Utilities, we provide integrated advisory, assurance, tax, and transaction services. Through diverse experiences, world-class learning and individually tailored coaching you will experience ongoing professional development. Thats how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well, this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Security & Networking Engineer with 4-8 years of IT experience and deep expertise in designing, deploying, and managing secure cloud network architectures. The role requires strong hands-on skills in Azure and AWS (with GCP as an added advantage), implementing Zero Trust security, cloud-native networking, and enterprise-grade compliance frameworks. You will work closely with cloud architects, security leaders, and application teams to ensure resilient, secure, and scalable environments across hybrid and multi-cloud platforms.

EY Digital Engineering is a unique, industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services that leverage deep industry experience with strong functional capability and product knowledge. The Digital Engineering practice works with clients to analyse, formulate, design, mobilize and drive digital transformation initiatives. We advise clients on their most pressing digital challenges and opportunities surround business strategy, customer, growth, profit optimization, innovation, technology strategy, and digital transformation.  We also have a unique ability to help our clients translate strategy into actionable technical design, and transformation planning/mobilization.  Through our unique combination of competencies and solutions, EY’s DE team helps our clients sustain competitive advantage and profitability by developing strategies to stay ahead of the rapid pace of change and disruption and supporting the execution of complex transformations

Your key responsibilities

Cloud Security

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and monitoring services.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and automate infrastructure provisioning across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines covering build, testing, security validation, approvals, deployment, release, and rollback.
• Enable continuous delivery for application stacks including Java, .NET, Angular, Python, and Big Data workloads.
• Deploy, configure, and manage Kubernetes platforms, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), supporting cloud-native and microservices-based workloads.
• Manage AKS capabilities including namespaces, deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, RBAC, secrets, networking, and monitoring.
• Implement Azure security controls using Microsoft Entra ID, Managed Identities, RBAC, Key Vault, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Azure Policy.
• Configure monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Support cloud migration, modernization, and platform upgrade initiatives, including environment readiness and cutover activities.
• Troubleshoot issues across Azure infrastructure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and AKS environments.
• Collaborate with architecture, application, cybersecurity, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, SOPs, and engineering best practices.

Skills and attributes for success

Mandatory Skills

• 4-8 years of experience with strong hands-on experience in Azure Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps engineering.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services covering virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, virtual machines, load balancing, storage, identity, security, and monitoring.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, provider configuration, variables, outputs, and environment-based deployments.
• Strong hands-on experience creating and maintaining GitHub Actions workflows.
• Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployment.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including deployment, scaling, upgrades, networking, security, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of Git, branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, and release management.
• Scripting experience using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Hands-on experience in cloud migration and modernization, including infrastructure migration, lifecycle upgrades, and environment cutovers.
• Good understanding of cloud security, networking, monitoring, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Good to have Skills

• Azure DevOps or Jenkins
• Docker and Helm
• Argo CD or other GitOps tools
• Azure Landing Zone implementation
• Cloud migration and modernization experience
• DevSecOps and security scanning integration
• FinOps exposure

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent

Education:

• Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience