Senior Associate - Centre for Advanced Tax Technology

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The role

We're searching for an Information Technology professional to contribute to growing DevOps team focused on cloud native Tax solutions. In this role you’ll work with the DevOps team by providing subject matter expertise, across the DevOps practices and tools.

You’ll have to work with Tax technology, DevOPS and Cyber teams on building modern, automated and secure cloud solutions that are transforming how we provide tax services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and maintain a full set of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools and processes for fully automated CI/CD pipelines including build, test and deploy capabilities
• Working with the operations team to provide production support of cloud applications
• Incorporate Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to create scalable and reliable applications
• Partner with development teams and cyber to identify, build and maintain automation including security features
• Stay current on cloud offerings, DevOps tools or techniques to advance automation and reliability
• Iteratively improve deployment capabilities through process streamlining and automation
• Ensure monitoring and observability of infrastructure, microservices and container technologies are in place for deep visibility of application performance and reliability
• Continue to grow the team by inspiring, coaching and mentoring, and providing challenging opportunities
• Participate in Agile ceremonies to plan, track, deliver and improve DevOps deliverables or processes

Education / Certification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
• Certification in Microsoft Azure DevOps, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Other helpful certifications:
  • Certified programmer in Microsoft Azure, Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, C++, C#, or .NET
  • Docker, Kubernetes or Terraform
  • DevOps institute or similar

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including software development, operations and/or DevOps on a leading cloud platform provider, preferably Azure
• 3+ years of progressive responsibility for leading and growing DevOps and/or software engineering teams
• Strong experience building and managing Azure public cloud environments and infrastructure (e.g., PaaS, IaaS, networking, security, deployment automation)
• Strong experience designing, implementing and managing automated CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience with instrumentation, monitoring, alerting and responding relative to performance and availability of applications
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure as a code tools (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure ARM)
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration software such Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, or equivalent
• Hands on experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Perl, Ruby or Python
• Working knowledge of Office 365 and Azure, Azure Active Directory, MFA and/or other directory services
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability and driving focus to get work done and make an impact
• Must be passionate about technology, a creative and innovative thinker
• Able to build relationships across teams to create a healthy DevOps culture.

Skill

years of experience

Proficiency rating

Kubernetes Service

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Veracode

Build and release CI/CD pipelines

Azure App Configuration

Azure Services

Azure SQL DB

Multiple Storage Interface (Blob Storage)

You want your next step to be the right one. You’ve worked hard to get where you are today. And now you’re ready to use your unique skills, talents and personality to achieve great things. RSM is a place where you are valued as an individual, mentored as a future leader, and recognized for your accomplishments and potential. Working directly with clients, key decision makers and business owners across various industries and geographies, you’ll move quickly along the learning curve and our clients will benefit from your fresh perspective.

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