Cloud Foundation & Automation Architect
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Job Description:
As a part of Accenture Cloud First - Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (CIE) practice, Cloud foundation Architect will work with the client and internal stake holders to create solution architecture, design and implementation of Cloud foundation components specialized in automation. Experience white Multi-cloud networking, Resource hierarchy design, Cost modeling, Monitoring Integration and iMac automation using Terraform/ Ansible.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and/or participate on a team designing, developing and testing iMac solutions for IaaS and PaaS solutions for on-prem or Cloud platforms
- Support DevOps operations by integrating developed iMac into CICD pipeline builds
- Develop documentation utilizing standardized templates including: Installation and Configuration Guides, design and engineering plans.
- Write other non-templated documentation as needed to support tasks like: process and procedures documents for operational support, lessons learned, diagrams, systems administration guidelines, systems set-up documentation, hardware integration test plans and results.
- Provide systems engineering requirements to ensure that technical and operational requirements are achievable and being satisfied with the proposed technologies.
- Provide support in validating and verifying requirements, requirements analysis and decomposition, requirements test/verification/validation, and reporting.
- Manage, maintain, and enhance current and future baselines. This effort will encompass hands on technical engineering efforts required to define, develop, test and implement software baselines.
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You will need:
- Minimum of 5 years of build automation and release management experience in production environments.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.
Bonus points if you have:
- Architect level certification in AWS, Azure or GCP
- Terraform Associate level certificate
- Experience with Amazon Web Services administration, or significant experience with another major public cloud provider such as Azure or Google Cloud
- Experience building and releasing Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC) in a controlled environment with an understanding of full-lifecycle configuration management.
- Experience installing, configuring and administering VCS systems: Azure Repos Git, Bitbucket, GitHub or Subversion
- Experience installing, configuring and using various open source and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Chef, Selenium, Docker, SonarQube, JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps.
- Experience developing coding/scripting to build required automation and tools (using Chef, Ruby, YAML, JSON, Python, Bash, Azure CLI, PowerShell, Java, etc.
- Experience configuring and/or utilizing monitoring/logging solutions.
- Experience with DevOps concepts and automation skills
- Experience with both Windows and UNIX/Linux operating systems
- Experience web infrastructure fundamentals: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP),
- Domain Name Server (DNS), Hypertext (or transport) Protocol (HTTP), etc.
- Ability to understand and actively participate in SCRUM Agile methodology
- Must have debugging and testing skills
- Must be able to collaborate, work in teams and be accountable for all contract efforts
- Must have client-facing consulting, leadership, and analytic skills
- Ability to communicate issues, status, tradeoffs and priorities
- Previous Consulting or Agile client service delivery experience
Unless expressly indicated, this role is not open in the state of Colorado.
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