Consultant

About the Role

The Consulting business at KPMG Global Services (KGS) is a diverse team of more than 6400 professionals who work with KPMG Firms worldwide to transform the businesses of clients across industries through the latest technology and innovation. Our technology professionals combine deep industry knowledge with strong technical experience to navigate through complex challenges and deliver real value for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Assessment & Planning: Analyze on-premises applications, infrastructure, and dependencies to define Azure migration strategies, target architectures, and transformation roadmaps.
• Azure Architecture & Engineering: Design and implement secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available Azure landing zones, cloud platforms, and enterprise workloads.
• Migration Delivery: Lead application, data, and infrastructure build and migration activities using Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure-native migration services.
• DevOps & Automation: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and automated deployment frameworks to accelerate cloud adoption and operational efficiency.
• DevSecOps Engineering: Embed security throughout the software development lifecycle by implementing secure CI/CD pipelines, automated security testing, vulnerability management, secrets management, policy-as-code, and compliance controls.
• Cloud Security Engineering: Design and implement cloud security controls across Azure environments, including network security, workload protection, encryption, monitoring, threat detection, and security posture management.
• Identity & Access Security: Implement and manage Azure Entra ID (Azure AD), privileged access management, role-based access control (RBAC), conditional access, identity governance, and Zero Trust security principles.
• Platform Security: Develop and maintain secure cloud platforms by establishing security baselines, governance frameworks, compliance controls, logging, monitoring, and operational security standards.
• AI Security: Support the secure adoption of AI and Generative AI solutions by implementing data protection controls, AI governance, model security, responsible AI practices, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to organizational security policies, information governance standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Optimization & Modernization: Identify opportunities to modernize applications, improve performance, enhance resilience, strengthen security, and optimize cloud costs.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineering and security teams, promoting Azure, DevOps, DevSecOps, and cloud security best practices.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, Cloud migration, and DevSecOps automation.
• Experience leading the migration or build of applications, data, and infrastructure from on-premises environments to Azure.
• Experience designing secure and scalable cloud solutions.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Working closely with operational and technical stakeholders.
• Driving cloud transformation initiatives.
• Ensuring security, compliance, and adherence to healthcare information governance standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or MCA.
• Microsoft Azure Solution Architect Expert certification preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric will be preferred.