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Associate Director, DevOps Engineering Lead at KPMG

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Nairobi  

Published On: 10th, July 2023

Closes on: 15th, July 2023

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Job Description

Associate Director, DevOps Engineering Lead

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.

Responsibilities:

    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 are

Requirements:

    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.

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