Senior Cloud Advisor & Architect

Overview
At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.
The Opportunity
KPMG is looking for a highly motivated and passionate Senior Cloud Advisor/Engineer to drive high priority initiatives for KPMG’s Client Facing Managed Services Platform. In this role, you will be responsible for engineering cloud-native solutions that are secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available. To be successful in this role you should have considerable experience understanding and translating business use cases into cloud solutions leveraging, predominantly, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) on Azure delivered through Azure DevOps and GitHub. You must have excellent communication skills to work with both on and offshore cloud experts and business stakeholders. A get the job done mindset is vital. This role requires you to take ownership of items assigned by stakeholders and ensure timely response on deliverables
What You Will Do

• Hands on experience building infrastructure workloads in Azure cloud and knowledge with cloud PaaS offerings and services
• Provide Azure based cloud native solutions, including high level design documents, presentation and blueprints / diagrams.
• Perform Business analysis – understand real world business use cases and requirements. Provide cloud-based solutions for the same.
• Learn continuously new technologies requested to be hosted on cloud environments and assist with enablement of said technologies.
• Hands on experience building cloud native serverless applications
• Guide a team of offshore cloud engineers to build workloads in an azure cloud environment as well as resolve operational issues
• Work with-in house / on-shore cloud engineers and architects to convert business requirements to solutions
• Collaborate with global One Platform architects, Canadian Architecture, Operations and Security teams to design, deploy and maintain cloud solutions for KPMG Canada’s managed services platform.
• Responsible for engineering next-generation, cloud-native products and evaluating/installing/configuring 3rd party tools/applications
• Understand KPMG’s digital strategy, cloud platform capabilities, IT and business priorities and success measures to design and implement solutions for KPMG Canada’s Managed Services Platform
• Experience migrating Azure DevOps projects from one Azure tenant to another.

What You Bring To The Role

• Understanding of best fit use cases for Power apps, Power automate, PowerBI on Azure
• Experience in Cloud automation using, Azure CLI, ARM & Terraform to enable Infrastructure as a Code, AWS CLI, Cloud formation, Ansible, etc.
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• 5+ engineering and implementing Cloud solutions
• Ability to participate in fast-paced DevOps and System Engineering teams within Scrum Agile processes
• Understanding of various flavors of licensing available with D365, M365, Power BI (Pro/Premium)
• Experience and knowledge of Cloud Operating Systems and Serverless Technologies such as AKS, KNative. Windows Server and Red Hat Linux Enterprise
• Knowledge of and experience in API and Webhook development using PowerShell, Python, Node.js, Ruby, and Shell Scripting languages
• Confidence and ability to lead discussions with clear goals, deliverables, documented agreements and follow up actions
• Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and professional services firms an asset
• Significant experience working in Azure. Added experience working with AWS and GCP is a plus.
• Strong understanding of Cloud Native Architecture and principles and Infrastructure/Configurations as code
• Knowledge of Cloud services application integration, functions, databases, data warehouse and analytics, serverless computing, machine learning, developer tools, security and identity management
• Hands-on experience in designing and configuring secure and scalable Cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure, including account structure, security and compliance audit, connectivity, shared services etc.
• Fundamental understanding and experience with DevOps tools (Azure DevOps and Github)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related STEM field or work experience
• Proven track record in system integration and design and setup of Infrastructure as a service and Platform as a service deployment

Keys to your success
KPMG individuals Deliver Impact | Seek Growth | Inspire Trust and understand that a diverse workforce enables us to deepen relationships and strengthen our business.
Providing you with the support you need to be at your best
For more information about KPMG in Canada’s Benefits and well-being, click here.
Our Values, The KPMG Way
Integrity, we do what is right | Excellence, we never stop learning and improving | Courage, we think and act boldly | Together, we respect each other and draw strength from our differences | For Better, we do what matters
KPMG in Canada is a proud equal opportunities employer and we are committed to creating a respectful, inclusive and barrier-free workplace that allows all of our people to reach their full potential. A diverse workforce is key to our success and we believe in bringing your whole self to work. We welcome all qualified candidates to apply and hope you will choose KPMG in Canada as your employer of choice. For more information about Inclusion, Diversity & Equity in Recruitment, please click here.
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