- Strong Azure IaaS and PaaS (should possess at least AZ-104 or AZ-204 certification or equivalent knowledge)
- Strong Troubleshooting experience
- Awareness of Change Management governance
- Must possess a solid understanding of Windows OS
- Strong scripting capability in PowerShell
- Good Azure DevOps knowledge (+3 yrs): CI/CD Pipelines, Git, Repositories, Boards, YAML
- Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering Principals: e.g., Monitoring, Observability, Release Automation, Eliminate Toil.
- Nice to have - familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, PowerShell Desired State - DSC)
- Nice to have - experience with Agile way of working
- You are a teambuilder who does your best work with a diverse and multidisciplinary team around you to collaborate, share ideas, and learn together.
- You get excited about generating innovative ideas that create value, improve processes, and solve complex problems.
- You are a strategic critical thinker, and love using that skill to solve complex problems and plan for the future.
- Bachelor degree from an accredited university in in computer science, engineering, or an equivalent experience in the related discipline
- Microsoft Azure AZ-104 certification minimum
- High degree of credibility and acumen in respect of security and data integrity
- Excellent communication skills in English, verbally and in writing to all levels of the organization
- Minimum of 5+ years of recent experience building and supporting IaaS and PaaS solutions in an Azure cloud environment
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Boards, and Repositories
- Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering Principals: e.g., Monitoring, Observability, Release Automation, Eliminate Toil
- Solid scripting experience PowerShell
- Hands-on experience drawing detailed technical diagrams and authoring technical documentation
- A pro-active nature and an overall high level of creativity, plus a problem-solving mentality
- Ability to analyze situations rigorously, logically, and systematically
- Ability to thrive in a high-pressure business critical operational environment
- Ability to work with people from many different cultural backgrounds
Azure Site Reliability Engineer - Victoria, Australia - KPMG
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Company Description
Backed by a worldwide partnership of professional services firms, KPMG aims to play a leading role in a rapidly advancing digital transformation. As the use of technology explodes and IT spending continues to increase, the best way for KPMG to remain competitive is to invest centrally and take advantage of cloud technologies provided through KPMG's Global Technology Platform ("One Platform"). The key business benefit of moving solutions to the Cloud is giving focus, speed, and agility to the business. At present, updating IT functionality requires significant effort from member firms locally and globally, and limits tool advancement. Moving to the cloud is therefore essential, as it provides the scale and agility needed to make regular updates and quickly introduce new functionality as it becomes available.
The ultimate vision for KPMG is that member firms and their customers will access IT functionality through One Platform, which is KPMG's tailored and secured implementation of Microsoft Azure. This approach will ensure local and global agility, quality, security and consistency. Providing access to advanced computing power and significantly streamlining development and deployment efforts at both global and country levels.
KPMG's One Platform is the organizational unit continuously developing and improving the platform to provide secure, predictable and flexible service delivery and operations capability. One Platform Operations also enables faster business innovation through adoption of cloud services and business agility and reduced time-to-market. One Platform Operations is delivering support with teams across the world.
To enable and foster the value of the One Platform, it requires new ways of working for many parts of the current IT organization. One Platform acting as a Service Broker (create/maintain and publish reusable certified deployment packages that align with security, compliance and service management policies). For this reason, we need new modern skillsets, to run and grow the maturity of the organization and dealing with the fast demand of our business. So, we are on a journey to become the Cloud Center of Excellence to enable the KPMG global business to grow fast with new technology from the One Platform.
Job Description
The Azure Site Reliability Engineer is primarily focused on Operational support by embedding Site Reliability Engineering processes in KPMG's Global Azure infrastructure.
The ideal candidate is well-rounded in Azure IaaS and PaaS offerings and will form part of the team that owns the KPMG Azure Operational stack for One Platform. You will work with other teams and vendors to enhance and improve our Operations environment. You must have a strong background in automation with PowerShell. Agile experience preferred.
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KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer change and enable growth.
Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate, highly skilled professionals who've got your back. You'll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive, equitable culture.
At KPMG, you'll take control over how you work. We're embracing a new way of working in many ways, from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks, including retail discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and growth opportunities, salary packaging options and more.
Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey, information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application, please contact the Talent Support Team.
At KPMG every career is different, and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.