Associate Director, DevOps Engineering Lead at KPMG

Job Description

KPMG is a professional service company, being one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and PwC. Seated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, KPMG employs , people and has three lines of services: audit, tax, and advisory.

Position Summary

At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: to turn insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world. We seek a professional with broad cloud engineering experience to help clients architect and automate software development leveraging cloud platforms and technologies. This is a Full Time, Hybrid Pan-African role, with responsibility for leading a team across the continent, and the resource will be based in either Johannesburg, Nairobi, or Lagos.

Role and Responsibilities

Strategy

 Provide DevOps and Cloud engineering support to the Africa digital transformation team  Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to shape a compelling and pragmatic strategy  Leverage regional alliances with technology partners (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google, etc) to drive proactive leads generation, joint pitch, pipeline management and conversions where required  Manage, coach and grow the DevOps and Cloud engineering team  Lead key business development activities for advisory products including targeting key C- level clients, proposing services and closing opportunities  Ensure service teams are buoyant and properly resourced  Build strong relationships with CTOs and be the trusted Cloud and DevOps advisor  Ensure all teams are complying with both client and firm regulatory and security controls and can feed these ways of working back to the community

Client Impact

 Work with clients to architect products, platforms and solutions that are performant, scalable and extensible.  Provide subject matter expertise to clients across Africa on cloud-related subjects.  Develop and implement effective cloud strategies for clients across Africa.  Drive business growth across Africa through new business development and expansion of existing client accounts.  Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure we provide clients with the latest and most effective solutions.  Work closely with clients to understand business needs and develop tailored solutions.  Develop practice through thought leadership and training. Finance  Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals).  Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget.  Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

The ideal candidate has:

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or any other relevant field.  Minimum of 10 years’ experience in infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps engineering roles with demonstratable knowledge of cloud technologies.  Well-grounded experience leading and delivering large software, infrastructure, and cloud transformational projects.  Expertise in the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure and services.  Extensive hands-on experience with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and/or GCP.  Proven experience in software development or scripting languages such as Python/Go/PowerShell/Nodejs/C# or equivalent.  Solid CI/CD pipelining skills and experience using any of Octopus/TeamCity/Jenkins/Azure DevOps or equivalent.  Proven experience on performance tuning, troubleshooting and resolution of issues that may arise in production.  Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems.  Automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of cloud resources using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.  Deep experience with Container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes or Docker swarm.  Pre-sales experience with OEMs or consulting experience will be an added advantage.  Being a self-starter and able to work independently including across multiple priorities and complex matrixed roles and responsibilities.  Confident, tactful and able to effectively influence others anddeal effectively with senior leaders  Critical thinking, presentation and analytical skills will be an advantage.  Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions.  Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge.  Extensive experience managing large or multiple teams of engineers.  Ability to have deep technical level discussions with engineers, to explain the business benefits of a range of technologies to non-technical partners and clients.  Have a keen eye for opportunity.  Excellent stakeholder management and relationship skills at C-suite level both internally and client facing.  Ability to operate in a highly context switching environment for not only different clients but different business sectors and different technologies.  Product focused, build once and reuse.  Take responsibility for own code.  Proven experience working in an agile environment.  Ability to empower teams to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal input.  Be the Cloud and DevOps advocate to a wider audience inside and outside of the business.  Curiosity – Bring fresh ideas to the team and wider firm.