Assistant Manager - Cloud Architecture

KPMG Global Services (KGS) India is a strategic global delivery organization that works with more than 50 KPMG firms to provide a progressive, scalable and customized approach to business requirements.

The KGS India journey has been one of consistent growth, with a current employee count of c.21,000, operating from eight locations in India — Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kochi, Noida, Pune and Kolkata. — and providing a range of Advisory and Tax-related services to KPMG firms around the world.

Location: Bangalore

Team Overview 

Our Cloud team focuses on enabling our client’s end to end journey from On-Premises to Cloud, with opportunities in the areas of: Cloud Strategy, Cloud Transformation, Cloud Development, Cloud Integration & APIs, Cloud migration, Cloud Infrastructure & Engineering. We help our clients see the transformational capabilities of Cloud as an opportunity for business enablement and competitive advantage.

Desired Skills and Experience: 

• Total 7 to 10 years of experience in Cloud Architecture and Cloud Strategy
• Ability to drive engagements in the assessment for organizations - Cloud Strategy, Cloud operating model and Cloud capability review.
• Providing Cloud performance reviews, TCO analysis, benchmarking against Cloud best practices. Carrying out Cloud transformations, aligning business with Cloud strategy & planning by building effective Governance frameworks.
• Azure/GCP in infra background with experience in Migration or Build or Design or Architect
• Experience with architecting, designing, implementing, or operating IT systems on leading commercial Cloud platforms, including Azure, and Google
• Hands on experience doing migrations to public cloud and familiarity with leading migration tools present in the market.
• Good understanding of Enterprise Networks, Security and Identity Access Management.
• Must have in-depth understanding of compute, storage, network components including backup, monitoring and DR environment requirements
• Experience and understanding of large-scale applications portfolio in enterprise-wide environment (including migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud) required
• Sound understanding of Virtualization and Hypervisors.
• Knowledge of DevOps approaches and working practices
• In depth knowledge of implementing various cloud migration patterns such as re-host, repurpose, refactor
• Must have experience for planning migrations to public or hybrid clouds including infrastructure sizing and costing
• Cloud Security experience will be an added advantage

The Person:

• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire teams and develop excellent client relationships
• Significant experience in consulting and presenting complex solutions to business executives
• Track record in advisory of complex large-scale architectural solutions on cloud
• Good understanding of infrastructure, network, database, security architecture, IAM for cloud-based solutions
• Understanding of large-scale applications portfolio in enterprise-wide environment (including migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud)
• Knowledge of IT operate models including DevOps approaches and working practices
• Experience of managing technical reviews and assessments of cloud strategy, roadmaps, cloud data models, cloud integration, and cloud migration tools
• Embraces a growth mindset for business development, with an ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Good team player with strong commitment to professional and client service excellence.

Qualifications:

A bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent (Bachelor Of Technology/ Bachelor Of Engineering)

KPMG entities in India are established under the laws of India and are owned and managed (as the case may be) by established Indian professionals. Established in September 1993, the KPMG entities have rapidly built a significant competitive presence in the country. Today we operate from offices across 14 cities including in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Vadodara and Vijayawada.

KPMG entities have a domestic client base of over 2700 companies. Our global approach to service delivery helps provide value-added services to clients.

Our differentiation is derived from a rapid performance-based, industry-tailored and technology-enabled business advisory services delivered by some of the leading talented professionals in the country. KPMG professionals are grouped by industry focus and our clients are able to deal with industry professionals who speak their language. Our internal information technology and knowledge management systems enable the delivery of informed and timely business advice to clients.