Senior Associate, Infrastructure Engineer

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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)

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