DevOps Engineer

KPMG Philippines is now Hiring for a DevOps Engineer!

Job Overview:

The Senior DevOps Engineer – Systems Integration is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating end-to-end Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and development and operations (DevOps) capabilities across complex, multi-system enterprise environments.

The objective is to ensure solutions are predictable, high quality, auditable, and continuously deployable.

Job Responsibilities:

• End-to-end ALM and DevOps architecture
• Design and implement end-to-end ALM frameworks covering requirements-to-deployment traceability and build, test, release, and deployment cycles.
• Define DevOps architecture for multi-team, multi-environment systems integration.
• Establish standards for branching strategies, versioning, and artefact management.

• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines supporting application development, integration services and middleware, and data/platform components.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, and deployment processes.
• Support environment promotion (development (DEV) → test (TEST) → user acceptance testing (UAT) → production (PROD)) with approvals and controls.

• Define and operate release management processes across multiple teams and systems.
• Support release planning, deployment calendars, and cutover activities.
• Enable rollback, blue/green, or canary deployment strategies where applicable.
• Manage configuration, secrets, and environment consistency.

• Support Scrum and Agile delivery models within DevOps pipelines.
• Enable sprint-based delivery with continuous integration and delivery.
• Integrate work item tracking with build and release pipelines.
• Support Agile metrics such as velocity, burndown, and flow.

• Embed quality gates into pipelines including automated unit tests, integration/regression testing, and code quality/coverage checks.
• Integrate security and compliance checks (DevSecOps) and enable shift-left testing and quality practices.

• Design and maintain DevOps dashboards covering build/deployment health, pipeline performance, release frequency and failure rates, and quality/test metrics.
• Provide visibility for engineering, delivery, and leadership teams.

• Implement and standardise DevOps tooling across teams.
• Automate infrastructure and platform provisioning where applicable.
• Support integration with cloud platforms and enterprise systems.
• Continuously improve DevOps capabilities through automation and optimisation.

• Act as a DevOps subject matter expert for systems integration programmes.
• Work closely with developers and integration engineers, QA/testing teams, security and compliance teams, and release and service management teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote DevOps and automation best practices.

Job Qualifications:

• Strong expertise in CI/CD and ALM tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins).
• Experience with source control, branching strategies, and artefact repositories.
• Strong understanding of release management and environment management.
• Strong understanding of test automation and quality engineering.
• Experience integrating DevOps pipelines with cloud and enterprise platforms.
• Scripting and automation skills (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language)).

Job Experience:

• 8–12+ years of overall information technology (IT) experience.
• 6–8+ years of hands-on DevOps / CI/CD experience.
• Proven experience supporting large-scale systems integration programmes.
• Strong experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments.

• Strong collaboration across development, integration, QA, security, and release teams.
• Comfortable working in large, multi-team delivery programmes with governance and audit requirements.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on automation, reliability, and repeatability.
• Ability to mentor engineers and uplift DevOps ways of working.

• DevOps or Agile certifications (e.g. Azure DevOps Engineer, SAFe, Scrum Master).
• Cloud platform certifications (Azure / Amazon Web Services (AWS) (desirable).
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) or service management certifications (desirable).

• End-to-end ALM and DevOps pipelines are robust, automated, and repeatable.
• Releases are predictable, low-risk, and well governed.
• Quality is embedded early and consistently across delivery.
• Teams have excellent visibility through DevOps dashboards and metrics.
• Integration solutions are delivered faster, with higher quality and confidence.
• DevOps is a core enabler of systems integration success, not a bottleneck.

• Right to work in the Philippines: must hold (and maintain) the appropriate visa/work authorisation for the role and assignment length.
• Hold a current passport suitable for business travel (including the ability to obtain visas as required) and be willing to travel where needed.
• Satisfy KPMG background screening and any client-specific screening requirements (which may include identity, criminal history, qualification, professional membership and other checks).
• Provide required onboarding documentation as requested by People & Inclusion

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