Telco Cloud Consultant

Role: Telco Cloud Consultant

Location: London

Career Level: Consultant

Travel: Up to 100% Monday to Thursday

Competitive Salary and Benefits

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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As a team:

Our 6,000+ strong team of Network Professionals combine deep business insight and technology supporting CSPs (communication service providers);Technology and Hyperscale clients to deploy, transform; scale and operate their networks. There is no one player who can bring together the scale & e2e capabilities that we can. This is what our clients’ current challenges and opportunities demand of us and it is what makes us differentiates us from other consulting firms in the market.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and on ground-breaking opportunities and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. 

As an Telco Cloud Consultant / Manager, you will bring:

• 3+ years of experience of NFV/ SDN Architectures; partners; roadmaps and technologies.

• An understanding of Network architecture low level Design.

• Virtual infrastructure understanding on some of the following topics sizing, budgetary estimates; comparisons of the key Voice core and Data core services among several VNF vendors & infrastructure providers.

• Understanding of Network virtualized Infrastructure designs (high level and low level)

• Understanding and preferably experience in data center capacity dimensioning and DC transformation roadmap in complex environments

• Understanding of network architecture design and NFV roadmaps

• E2E Architecture design, supporting new DevOps based organization setup for the Cloud Infra and Service domains (Core, RAN), supporting Operational readiness review from NFV (NFVI, VNF, MANO) perspective

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• 5G/4G/3G/2G, core, Network Architecture

• Standards and framework (3GPP, 5G, LTE, ETSI, 5GAA, 5GMF, ITU)

• 5G network functions ( e.g.  AUSF, AMF,DN, UDSF, NEF, NRF, NSSF, PCF, SMF, UDM, UDR, UPF, AF, RAN, EIR, SEPP, NWDAF, CHF), related Nxx interfaces and STP, DRA, OCS

• EPC (Mavenir, Affirmed, CISCO), IMS (Metaswitch, Ribbon, Nokia, Intel), VoLTE solution (Ericsson, Hauwei),

• Devops processes and tools

• Network plan, design, model, setup & configuration, optimization and operations processes (event, incident, change, preventive maintenance, etc..) standards and framework (eTOM, ITIL)

• Private Network

• Routers, switches, firewalls and security

• Network policies configurations, ports, blocks and VPN technologies

• Cloud infrastructure architecture, design and rollouts  (e.g. Vmware, Openstack, AWS; Azure; GCP)

• Software defined networking technologies (VMware NSX, Juniper Contrail, Cisco ACI)

• Orchestrate deployment of network services and systems

What’s in it for you?

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.
 

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications 31/08/2021 - Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.