Associate Director, Cloud Platform Automation Developer

at  KPMG

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KPMG is currently seeking an Associate Director, Cloud Platform Automation Developer to join our Global Information Technology Group which is part of KPMG International organization.

Responsibilities:

• Support gathering of customer requirements and needs (regarding Cloud Automation); adopt and apply appropriate technical and quality strategies and standards
• Provide Architectural directions, design, develop, improve and maintain distributed, high performance and scalable Cloud Automation solutions, making use of the available tools on Cloud Services platform; write automated unit tests along with implementation of functional classes and methods; use automated build and release management processes for CI/CD
• Participate in agile development process and contribute to its evolution and work in DevOps team and follow the standards and guidance from the team; review product backlog items built by our business analysis group as part of the sprint process to make sure requirements are complete and accurate
• Build constructive working relations across the different teams, functions, cultures, genders and demonstrate KPMG behaviors and value, maintaining an awareness of potential interdependencies with other team members and their impact
• Maintain information on new opportunities in all the tools Cloud Services uses (SharePoint, Azure DevOps, GitLab, and any other tools)

Qualifications:

• Minimum seven years of recent experience in Cloud Platform development with a strong focus on cloud and Azure services
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent work experience
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to clearly and simply convey information to stakeholders in a way that is meaningful and that achieves the desired outcome
• Perform Infrastructure as Code, Pipeline Deployments, and Automate IT Ops Tasks and Services in Complex Compute Environments
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments like Microsoft Azure
• Ability to develop solutions to global scale for cloud deployment and consumption

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• Support gathering of customer requirements and needs (regarding Cloud Automation); adopt and apply appropriate technical and quality strategies and standards
• Provide Architectural directions, design, develop, improve and maintain distributed, high performance and scalable Cloud Automation solutions, making use of the available tools on Cloud Services platform; write automated unit tests along with implementation of functional classes and methods; use automated build and release management processes for CI/CD
• Participate in agile development process and contribute to its evolution and work in DevOps team and follow the standards and guidance from the team; review product backlog items built by our business analysis group as part of the sprint process to make sure requirements are complete and accurate
• Build constructive working relations across the different teams, functions, cultures, genders and demonstrate KPMG behaviors and value, maintaining an awareness of potential interdependencies with other team members and their impact
• Maintain information on new opportunities in all the tools Cloud Services uses (SharePoint, Azure DevOps, GitLab, and any other tools