Cloud Engineer and Site Reliability (SME) - Senior Manager
Ernst and Young1 day ago
Base Salary
$144k - $374k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build reusable cloud foundations, infrastructure patterns, environment configurations, and deployment automation.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools while independently reviewing, debugging, testing, and validating generated code.
- Review complex architectures, migrations, and releases involving reliability, security, performance, cost, and multi-use-case trade-offs.
- Define production-readiness evidence, service objectives, observability standards, actionable alerts, capacity practices, and operational reviews.
- Investigate distributed-service failures, verify root causes with system evidence, and test durable remediation.
- Design performance tests, failure simulations, recovery exercises, and rollback paths.
- Publish tested reference implementations, engineering guidance, and operational runbooks.
- Coach engineers, challenge assumptions, and transition proven capabilities to ongoing owners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study, although the posting also states that no particular degree or certification is required for exceptional candidates.
- 9–12+ years of relevant experience designing and operating cloud, infrastructure, platform, or site reliability capabilities in production.
- Strong cloud infrastructure, distributed-systems, infrastructure-as-code, networking, identity, runtime-platform, and delivery-automation expertise.
- Experience defining service objectives, using observability and capacity planning, testing recovery, leading incident investigations, and implementing durable remediation.
- Strong coding skills and the ability to independently validate AI-generated or otherwise automated engineering output.
- Experience mentoring engineers and guiding architecture or production-readiness decisions across teams without formal delivery ownership.
- Preferred experience includes AI production systems, hybrid or multi-region environments, performance and cost engineering, regulated or confidential environments, and cloud-native, infrastructure, SRE, observability, automation, or open-source community contributions.
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, paid holidays, winter and summer breaks, personal/family care leave, and other leave options.
- Flexible vacation policy and support for physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
- Anywhere-in-country role requiring up to 50% travel and flexibility to work in the office in a hybrid capacity.
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Ernst and Young
Ernst & Young (EY) provides audit/assurance, tax, consulting, strategy and transactions services to enterprises, financial institutions, and public‑sector clients. Structured as a global network of partner‑owned member firms, it sells professional services on a fee basis, including a dedicated Financial Services Organization for banking, insurance, and capital markets. Headquartered in London, EY was formed in 1989 from the merger of Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young, and operates in 150+ countries.