DevOps Engineering Lead (Africa) at KPMG South Africa

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

Your responsibilities will include:
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:

Qualifications Experience & Skills
You’re a strong candidate if you have:

•   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