Azure Cloud Engineer – Senior Consultant

The opportunity

We are seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join EY Canada. In this role, you will be required to offer expert advice, planning, and practical assistance to EY's clients who want to move their IT infrastructure to a cloud-based system. This individual will be part of a diverse team of innovative and talented professionals, committed to providing top-tier consulting services to our clients and must ability to manage multiple client engagements simultaneously.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Work with a variety of Canadian clients across different industries to understand their specific cloud computing needs and objectives.
• Design and implement tailored cloud infrastructure, applications, and platform solutions.
• Create and execute cloud implementation strategies, specific to each client.
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot cloud-based systems, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Build and engineer AI-enabled cloud platforms using AI Engineering best practices, incorporating scalable architecture, security, automation, observability, and responsible AI principles.
• Train and support clients during the cloud transition process, maintaining good client relationships.
• Develop comprehensive backup and recovery strategies that comply with Canadian business continuity standards.
• Communicate complex cloud concepts, ensuring that relevant stakeholders understand the risks and benefits.
• Follow EY methodologies and use EY tools to deliver seamless and compelling cloud solutions.
• Stay current with trends and developments in cloud computing, with a particular focus on their relevance to the Canadian market.
• Ensure EY's quality and professional standards are maintained.
• Collaborate with other EY teams to create integrated solutions.

To qualify for this role you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Systems Engineering, or a related field. Higher degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
• 3-5 years of design and implementation experience as a Cloud Engineer with prior consulting experience.
• Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems majorly on Azure cloud platforms.
• Implementing and managing Azure cloud infrastructure and services, including compute, storage, networking, and databases.
• Migrating existing on-premises applications and services to the cloud.
• Design and implement robust cloud infrastructure solutions and develop and manage hub and spoke architecture on the Azure platform.
• Understanding of AI Engineering practices i.e. designing Generative AI and AI-enabled applications, including LLMs, RAG, vector search, agents, evaluation, guardrails, and AI observability.
• Experience in Automation (must have) and Orchestration:
• Automating repetitive tasks using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on experience with AKS/GKE/Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, container registries, networking, security, autoscaling, and troubleshooting cloud-native workloads.
• Experience implementing automated delivery pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitOps, testing, security scanning, and deployment automation. 
• Experience in Security and Compliance and Maintenance & Optimization:
• Experience with Azure identity, RBAC, secrets management, network security, policy, compliance, vulnerability management, and secure cloud/container architectures.
• mplementing and managing security measures such as firewalls, identity and access management (IAM), and encryption & conducting security audits and risk assessments.
• Understanding of SRE practices, including reliability, availability, resiliency, incident management, capacity management, performance engineering, and production readiness.

Experience in Collaboration and Support:

• Collaborating with development teams to support DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, French language skills is a plus.
• Willingness to travel, as needed, to meet client needs and project commitments.
• Exhibits EY’s values – integrity, respect, and teaming, energy, enthusiasm, and the courage to lead.

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/British Columbia is $90,000 to $120,000 and for Victoria – $80,000 – $120,000. 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.

Inclusiveness at EY

Inclusiveness is at the heart of who we are and how we work. We’re committed to fostering an environment where differences are valued, policies and practices are equitable, and our people feel a sense of belonging. We embrace diversity and are committed to combating systemic racism, advancing gender equity and women in leadership, advocating for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, promoting our neuroinclusion and accessibility initiatives, and are dedicated to amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) nationally as we strive towards reconciliation. Our diverse experiences, abilities, backgrounds, and perspectives make our people unique and help guide us. Because when people feel free to be their authentic selves at work, they bring their best and are empowered to build a better working world.

Learn about our commitment to Inclusiveness at https://www.ey.com/en_ca/about-us/corporate-responsibility/equity