Manager DevOps Cloud Engineer

We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, inclusive culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You’ll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There’s no one like you and that’s why there’s nowhere like RSM.

RSM’s Center for Advanced Tax Technology (“CATT”) is a fast-paced, high-energy, collaborative environment that also happens to be one of the fastest growing tax practice groups at RSM. The CATT team is focused on enhancing RSM US and global ability to deliver comprehensive, value-added, and efficient Tax products and services to our clients. It is a dynamic team with professionals of varying backgrounds from tax functional, tax technical, technology development, and product management. The team consults and executes on a wide range of initiatives involving process and tool development and implementation including training development, engagement management, tool design, and implementation.

JOB SUMMARY

The CATT Manager DevOps Cloud Engineer leads delivery of strategic DevOps initiatives to advance automation, security, scalability, and reliability of cloud-based platforms, so that development teams can design, development, deploy and perform ongoing maintenance activities for our custom-developed software that is used by internal RSM partners and staff as well as external clients to drive long-term scalability and sustainability of the business for a competitive advantage. To execute their area of responsibility, this role collaborates with staff, product teams, IT, other functional areas within the broader RSM firm, and field offices to ensure we achieve the vision cohesively and effectively. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success leading high-performance teams, strong data analytics capabilities, a continuous improvement mindset, and a deep passion for the digital transformational journey.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Leads delivery of strategic DevOps initiatives to advance automation, security, scalability, and reliability of Azure cloud-based platforms.

• Partners with IT and CATT leaders to advance DevOps culture and practices within the development teams.

• Assists DevOps and Dev leads in systems tests for security, performance, monitoring and availability.

• Expert in scripting and automation to enable product teams to meet business objectives.

• Provides design and documentation on solutions for automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring, etc.

• Responsible for management of approved cloud services such as VMs, Kubernetes, Storage, Networking and Security.

• Liaison with cloud vendors on services, outages & support for resolving production issues.

• Identifies and implements advancements in automation, monitoring & reliability in each product areas.

• Ensures the team is following Agile ceremonies and leads capacity planning for deliverables.

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's Degree (preference given to Business or Technology or Accounting major).

• Microsoft Certified: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions or equivalent experience.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 7 years’ experience with Azure cloud infrastructure (required).

• Minimum 5 years’ experience building/managing cloud CI/CD pipelines and scripting automated solutions (required).

• Minimum 3 years’ Experience with Terraform scripting for infrastructure deployment/maintain (required)

• Results driven; high integrity; ability to build relationships; communications skills; understands complex decisions and proactively seeks input from Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer (required).

• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (required); Secure Software Development Life Cycle (preferred).

• Understanding of Agile development methodologies (required).

• Self-disciplined to work in a virtual, agile, globally sourced team (required).

• Prior public accounting experience with mid to large size firm(s) or other professional services experience (preferred).

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