DevOps Engineering Lead (Africa) at KPMG

Job 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 Pan Africa role with responsibility for leading a team across the continent. This resource will be based in either Joburg, Nairobi or Lagos.

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 

Requirements

• 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 and deal 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

Closing: 10, June 2023