GPS - Azure Senior Platform Engineer - Assistant Director
About EY-Parthenon•Atlanta, GA
•Hybrid
About The Position
This role supports large, complex government cloud programs within Azure Government environments and is accountable for the successful delivery of platform and infrastructure capabilities at scale. The Assistant Director owns outcomes across multiple workstreams, translating business and mission needs into secure, scalable, and sustainable cloud platforms. The role operates at the intersection of strategy and execution, guiding technical direction, enabling delivery teams, and influencing stakeholders across product, engineering, and platform organizations. In addition to hands-on technical leadership, the role is responsible for 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)
- Strong hands-on experience: Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD – designing and delivering with tools such as Bicep, Azure DevOps, ARM templates, or Ansible
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Identity and access – understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, Entra ID RBAC, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and managed identities for Azure resources
- 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)
- 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
- Ability to obtain and maintain Top-Secret Security Clearance
- Deeper hands-on experience with: Git-based source control and branching strategies
- AWS/GCP cloud experience / knowledge
- Azure DevOps Pipelines and broader Azure platform services
- Ansible and Bicep for advanced automation and configuration
- Azure Policy and multi-tenant / multi-subscription design patterns
- 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
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or CKAD / CKNS
- 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
- medical and dental coverage
- pension and 401(k) plans
- a wide range of paid time off options
- flexible vacation policy
- designated EY Paid Holidays
- Winter/Summer breaks
- Personal/Family Care
- other leaves of absence
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
