Advisory / Experienced / Senior Associate
Senior Associate, Infrastructure Engineer
McLean, VA; Washington, DC
139451
Experienced
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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Infrastructure Engineer to join our Federal Services organization.
Responsibilities:
- Review and integrate application and infrastructure deliverables from client project teams into GovCloud; update or develop application components when needed to meet GovCloud standards, integration needs, and operational requirements
- Build, harden, standardize, and maintain the infrastructure-as-code used to deploy and operate hosted solutions; prepare solutions for release, including implementation readiness, documentation, operational handoff, and required technical controls
- Perform maintenance and operational changes for hosted solutions when the originating development team has moved to other work; evaluate infrastructure needs, reliability, availability, capacity, configuration, technical risks, and design trade-offs; recommend implementation approaches
- Coordinate and collaborate with other senior engineers on shared platform needs, technical dependencies, and solution delivery; work with security and compliance teams to implement required infrastructure controls and remediate identified findings; provide technical direction and task-level guidance to junior engineers as needed
- Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment
Qualifications:
- Minimum ten years of recent and relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or twelve years of equivalent professional experience
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and version-controlled delivery practices, including Terraform or comparable tooling
- Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and operating cloud or enterprise infrastructure in production environments; hands-on experience with core infrastructure services, including network, identity, compute, storage, environment configuration, and hosted application platforms
- Experience reviewing, integrating, and supporting application or infrastructure deliverables produced by other engineering teams; proven experience preparing technical solutions for release, operational handoff, and ongoing maintenance; ability to diagnose complex infrastructure and application-integration issues and make sound technical trade-offs
- Capacity to document technical standards, implementation decisions, operating procedures, and handoff material; capability to coordinate effectively with engineering, security, operations, and client project teams
- Applicants 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), with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance (active Secret or higher preferred)