Senior Cloud & SRE Engineer - AI-Driven Infra

EY; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior cloud engineering leader to architect AI-enabled services with secure, observable, and cost-aware foundations. You will drive production readiness, reliability, and performance across multiple use cases, guiding architecture decisions and scaling strategies.

You will work within Challenger Core, migrating ideas from experimentation to dependable production, mentoring engineers, and shaping the next generation of cloud-native services for EY clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a relevant field.
• 9-12+ years of experience in cloud or site reliability.
• Proven ability to design and operate cloud/infrastructure in production.
• Hands-on coding skills with automation and observability.
• Experience leading complex, distributed systems initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build shared cloud foundations and deployment automation.
• Apply AI-assisted tools to accelerate development and testing.
• Review architectures and releases for reliability and cost.
• Define production readiness and service objectives.
• Establish observability and incident response practices.
• Guide scaling decisions with performance and cost data.
• Lead investigations into complex failures across services.
• Publish reference implementations and runbooks.

Skills

9-12+ years experience

Cloud design & operation

AI/ML tooling awareness

Infrastructure as code

Production reliability

Cross-team influence

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Tools

None specified

Job description

EY is seeking a senior cloud engineering leader to architect AI-enabled services with secure, observable, and cost-aware foundations. You will drive production readiness, reliability, and performance across multiple use cases, guiding architecture decisions and scaling strategies.

You will work within Challenger Core, migrating ideas from experimentation to dependable production, mentoring engineers, and shaping the next generation of cloud-native services for EY clients.