GPS - Azure Senior Platform Engineer - Assistant Director

EY • Atlanta, DC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At EY, the Government & Public Sector (GPS) practice provides consulting and audit services to Federal, State, Local, and Education clients, aiming to help them achieve mission outcomes through new ideas and high professional standards. The GPS Technology Organization within the US GPS practice implements and maintains a technology model specifically for U.S. defense and Government engagements. This role is a remote opportunity within the Continental United States, supporting large, complex government cloud programs in Azure Government environments. The Assistant Director is accountable for the successful delivery of platform and infrastructure capabilities at scale, owning outcomes across multiple workstreams, and translating business and mission needs into secure, scalable, and sustainable cloud platforms. The position involves guiding technical direction, enabling delivery teams, and influencing stakeholders across product, engineering, and platform organizations. It also includes hands-on technical leadership, developing team capability, driving continuous improvement, and making informed trade-offs to balance delivery, quality, risk, and long-term platform health within government and security-constrained environments.

Requirements

• 7+ years in engineering roles working with private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance
• Strong hands-on experience: Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD – designing and delivering with tools such as Bicep, Azure DevOps, ARM templates, or Ansible
• Strong hands-on experience: Containers and orchestration – experience building and running containerized workloads using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, or Helm for packaging and deploying services at scale
• Strong hands-on experience: Networking fundamentals – strong foundation designing and troubleshooting VNets, subnets, network security groups (NSGs), routing (UDRs), and basic load-balancing scenarios, with enough depth to reason about hub-and-spoke or similar topologies and diagnose common connectivity issues
• Strong hands-on experience: Cloud security principles – solid understanding of concepts such as shared responsibility, least privilege, identity-driven security, network segmentation, encryption, and logging/monitoring, and how to apply them for customers driven by regulatory compliance requirements, such as: NIST, FedRAMP
• Strong hands-on experience: Identity and access – understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, Entra ID RBAC, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and managed identities for Azure resources
• Strong hands-on experience: Windows and Linux administration – hands-on experience managing, troubleshooting, and hardening server workloads, including patching, performance tuning, and applying security baselines (e.g., DISA STIG or equivalent)
• Strong hands-on experience: Scripting / programming – practical automation experience using PowerShell (Python or similar scripting languages is a plus but not required)
• Experience with government security frameworks (e.g., NIST controls)
• Hands-on delivery in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar)
• Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to work effectively on distributed teams

Nice To Haves

• Deeper hands-on experience with: Git-based source control and branching strategies
• Deeper hands-on experience with: AWS/GCP cloud experience / knowledge
• Deeper hands-on experience with: Azure DevOps Pipelines and broader Azure platform services
• Deeper hands-on experience with: Ansible and Bicep for advanced automation and configuration
• Deeper hands-on experience with: Azure Policy and multi-tenant / multi-subscription design patterns
• Deeper hands-on experience with: Advanced Azure networking experience – hands-on exposure to one or more of: VPN Gateway or ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall or other NVAs, Virtual WAN hubs, Application Gateway or similar L7 gateways, and more complex hybrid or multi-region network designs
• Additional relevant certifications, such as: AZ-400, AZ-500, AZ-700
• Additional relevant certifications, such as: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or CKAD / CKNS
• Additional relevant certifications, such as: Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of cloud platform and infrastructure capabilities across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with business, mission, and security requirements
• Set and guide technical direction for Azure Government platforms, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and operationally sustainable
• Establish and evolve DevSecOps practices and automation approaches to improve delivery consistency, quality, and reliability
• Make informed technical and delivery trade off decisions, balancing speed, quality, security, risk, and long term platform health
• Lead architecture and design efforts, reviewing and approving solutions to ensure alignment with standards, constraints, and desired outcomes
• Oversee risk, dependency, and issue management across delivery efforts, escalating and resolving proactively as needed
• Influence stakeholders across product, engineering, and leadership teams to align priorities and drive execution without direct authority
• Develop and grow engineering talent through coaching, feedback, and delegation, strengthening overall team capability
• Promote operational excellence by continuously improving processes, tooling, and ways of working

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
• Medical and dental coverage
• Pension and 401(k) plans
• Wide range of paid time off options
• Flexible vacation policy
• Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays
• Winter/Summer breaks
• Personal/Family Care leaves of absence
• Other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior