Cloud Capability Lead - Birmingham, United Kingdom - KPMG-UnitedKingdom

KPMG-UnitedKingdom

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job description

Location

We have learnt during the recent global situation that remote working can, and has, worked for our large Engineering team.

Whilst we have three core offices (London, Manchester and Leeds) we are open to remote workers across the UK within a sensible vicinity of our offices with a view to being onsite at least one day per week.

The Team

Within KPMG's Technology service line, the Infrastructure Engineering team's mission is to be the best Infrastructure team ever, by using the right tools for the right job, failing fast and automating like our lives depend on it.

Right from the leadership level, our team are fully committed to the DevOps culture and are consistently trying to change to ensure that culture is nurtured and grows.

We operate at genuine scale taking advantage of our alliance partnerships with the industry leading public cloud providers to deliver cutting edge solutions to clients on a global stage.

If the public cloud is your future and you're amazing at solving difficult, interesting and complex challenges and actually writing code, roll up your sleeves then drop us a line and remember to bring cake.

The Role

Oversee the Building and Running of multiple cloud service teams who help business sectors design, build and maintain infrastructure and software services primarily in the three public cloud environments (AWS, Azure and GCP)
Contribute towards the overall strategic direction for the wider Cloud and Engineering communities as well as your direct cloud service teams
Lead, sponsor and mentor your various teams of engineers. Provide both technical and managerial support, guidance and advice where needed at any level
Leverage extensive experience to assist your teams, and the wider cloud community at any grade level
Responsible for ensuring all your service teams are financially buoyant and resourced correctly
Build strong relationships with the coverage CTO for your area ensure you feed into their Technology strategy and be the trusted advisor from a Cloud and DevOps perspective
Build on existing and forge new relationships with the wider firm at Director, Partner and Senior Partner level to put the T in GTD
Ensure all teams are approaching and meeting both client and firm regulatory and security controls and are able to feed these ways of working back to the community
Support your wider Infrastructure community by assisting other teams, sharing knowledge, debugging problems, contributing code to central projects, and any other things you can think of
Enjoy yourself. Lead and nurture the culture of your teams and spread the word and capabilities the wider Technology team has across the UK and Global member firms

The Person

Extensive experience managing a large or multiple teams of engineers and being responsible for delivering large and complex projects
Ability to have deep technical level discussions with engineers, to explaining the business benefits of a range of technologies to nontechnical partners and clients who have business issues to overcome
Have a keen eye for opportunity. Put the T in GTD and grow, extensively, the brand footprint of Engineering not only internally at KPMG but externally to the market
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
Proven extensive experience with Linux/Unix/Microsoft configuration
Extensive hands on experience with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and/or GCP
Able to identify and nurture existing and new talent
Proven experience in software development or scripting languages such as Python/Go/PowerShell/Nodejs/C# or equivalent
Solid CI/CD pipelining skills using Octopus/TeamCity/Jenkins/Azure DevOps or equivalent
Product focussed, build once and reuse
Take responsibility for your code
Automates everything
Proven experience working in an agile environment
Ability to empower your teams to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with mínimal input
You like nothing more than to watch colleagues flourish under your guidance
Be a technological cloud advocate to a wider audience inside and outside of the business

Curiosity

Bring fresh ideas to the team and wider firm be it new software or containerisation of existing infrastructure and projects

What we can offer

Scale, some of our clients are well known global brands, their infrastructure isn't small
A great team environment, inside and outside of the work place
Alliance relationships with AWS/Azure/GCP
Work with the product owners directly and help build their roadmap
Love of technology and learning about even newer technology to help our clients be successful
Paid certifications
Flexible and considerate working hours and locations
Access to r