Senior Associate, Cloud Engineer - Terraform

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KPMG is currently seeking a Sr. Associate, Cloud Engineer for our Consulting practice.

Responsibilities :

• Assist clients; cloud migration engagements, including cloud migration strategy, application cloud suitability/readiness assessment, migration planning, sourcing options, business case and execution coordination specifically in Azure
• Help with application design changes for cloud suitability and migrations; assist in the design, implementation and migration to new IT infrastructure and cloud (IaaS/PaaS) environments
• Primary liaison with client stakeholders and architects
• Support client pursuits and development of service proposals
• Assist development of enhancements to the infrastructure & cloud management methodologies and contribute thought leadership content

Qualifications :

• Minimum three years of recent experience in IT infrastructure technology management and architecture including IaaS/PaaS/DevOps cloud transformation programs and infrastructure automation, prior system/storage; admin/engineering experience and consulting experience; four years of cloud strategy, migration, and transformation leadership including cloud services (IaaS/PaaS) implementation & migration, including Azure or AWS
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences from an accredited college/university, Master of Business Administration (MBA) is preferred and past or current certifications (e.g. Microsoft, AWS, Cisco, Azure, VMware) is preferred
• Technology experience, including IaaS/PaaS (Azure or Amazon Web Service), infrastructure automation/orchestration technologies (e.g. Chef, Puppet, BladeLogic), server, storage, high availability architecture and infrastructure transformation from strategy to design and implementation; Terraform highly perferred
• Additional desirable experience in infrastructure automation and instrumentation (Unix Admin, Scripting / Programming Capabilities, SDLC Process Knowledge), Unified Communications, Collaboration, Database/application server architecture, network, information security, GenAI, RAG
• Ability to travel as needed
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

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