Cloud Solution 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.

KPMG is looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cloud Solution Architect to drive high priority initiatives on Microsoft Azure platform. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding challenges related to application modernization and provide cloud native architecture and design solutions that are secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available. This role would also assist the current Audit application team with applications deployments and give recommendations on how to move from IaaS to PaaS services.

To be successful in this role you should have considerable experience architecting and implementing solution designs predominantly using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) on Azure, understand and be a practitioner of Dev Sec Ops , be an excellent communicator, and have a get the job done attitude and mindset.

• Responsible for architecting next-generation, cloud-native products, and applications
• Collaborate with KPMG Global One Platform architects, Canadian Architecture, Operations and Security teams to design, deploy and maintain cloud solutions for KPMG Canada
• Collaborate with internal KPMG ITS Audit support team as well as KPMG Global Audit team to implement, support, manage KPMG audit suite of applications (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). Provide guidance and input into the application from an infrastructure perspective to leverage cloud native services
• Collaborate with technical teams on defining cloud architectural standards and best practices, providing consistent recommendations and oversight to team members
• Understand KPMG’s digital strategy, cloud platform capabilities, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions
• Ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment
• Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term Cloud adoption within the firm to enable them to be Cloud advocates

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, related STEM field or work experience
• 3+ years proven experience in architecting solutions on major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Microsoft Certified (must have) Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Experience with transforming applications based on IaaS solutions to PaaS services and designing and configuring secure and scalable cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure, including account structure, security and compliance audit, connectivity, shared services etc.
• Knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture and principles and Infrastructure as a code
• Experience Architecting including implementation and maintenance knowledge of Azure PaaS components Databricks, Data factory, Synapse, Azure SQL, AI/ML, advanced analytics, and Kubernetes service
• Knowledge of API and Webhook development using Power Shell, Python, Node.js, Ruby, and Shell Scripting languages
• Knowledge of CI/CD Systems, such as Azure Dev Ops server and Azure Dev Ops services and Github
• Experience in Cloud automation using, Azure CLI, ARM & Terraform to enable Infrastructure as a Code, AWS CLI, Cloud formation, Ansible, etc.
• Experience and knowledge of Cloud Operating Systems including Open Stack, Open Shift, Windows, Linux and Vsphere
• Proven track record in system integration and design and setup of Infrastructure as a service and Platform as a service deployment
• Ability to participate in fast-paced Dev Sec Ops  and System Engineering teams within Scrum Agile processes

The expected base salary range for this position is $87,500 to $130,500 and may be eligible for bonus awards. The determination of an applicant’s base salary within this range is based on the individual’s location, skills & competencies, and unique qualifications. In addition, KPMG offers a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards program.

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