Cloud Systems Engineer

Title: Cloud Systems EngineerLocation:  Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto ARE YOU READY to step up and take your technology expertise to the next level?There is never a typical day at Accenture, but that’s why we love it here! This is an extraordinary chance to begin a rewarding career at Accenture Technology. Immersed in a digitally-compassionate and innovation-led environment, here is where you can help top clients shift to the New using leading-edge technologies on the most ground-breaking projects imaginable.Immerse yourself in a supportive ecosystem that values your individuality and encourages you to innovate, ideate and disrupt. We recognize that it's the diversity of our people that makes us stronger, smarter and more effective as a team.We are: Accenture Cloud First - Infrastructure EngineeringAccenture is a leader in cloud transformations working with AWS, Azure, Google, and private clouds such as VMWare. The formation of Accenture Cloud First, with a $3 billion investment over three years, demonstrates our commitment to deliver greater value to our clients when they need it most. Our Cloud First multi-service group of more than 70,000 cloud professionals delivers a full stack of integrated cloud capabilities across data, edge, integrated infrastructure and applications, deep ecosystem skills, culture of change along with a deep industry expertise to shape, move, build and operate our clients’ businesses in the cloud.  To accelerate our clients’ transformation leveraging cloud, we combine world-class learning and talent development expertise; deep experience in cloud change management; and cloud-ready operating models with a commitment to responsible business by design — with security, data privacy, responsible use of artificial intelligence, sustainability and ethics and compliance built into the fundamental changes Accenture helps companies achieve.  Our services cover the full spectrum of client needs, from strategy to service management, device-to-cloud networks, workplace solutions, and more.Today, more than ever, companies need to operate and compete at an unprecedented speed and scale as industries are reshaping beneath them. This means innovating faster, creating new revenue streams, deriving more insights from data – and from the edge – and interacting differently with their customers, partners, and employees.  Choose Accenture and make delivering this kind of innovative work part of your extraordinary career.WORK YOU’LL DOAccenture’s Cloud First Infrastructure Engineering professionals partner with our clients to advise, create, and deploy end-to-end infrastructure transformation solutions, enabling business innovation.  These solutions are the backbone of driving IT-enabled differentiation.  IE professionals are grounded in New-IT with an expertise in one or more of our core practice areas: Digital Workplace, Network Technology, Service Management, Hybrid Cloud, Public Cloud, and traditional Data Center.Key Responsibilities:In a 24/7 environment, the position responsibilities include but are not be limited to:

• Implement and manage infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) in the Azure cloud and private cloud
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) principles, deployment methodologies to provision cloud services using ARM templates, PowerShell, Azure CLI, DSC, Azure DevOps
• Manage Azure DevOps pipelines for the Infrastructure group in collaboration with the DevOps Team
• Assist in defining and implementing security architecture standards including data encryption, application security, key management, identity management, authentication, authorization, infrastructure security
• Support private cloud infrastructure utilizing VMware and Nutanix technologies
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions to provide data redundancy, resilience, and data loss prevention
• Assist in capacity planning
• Optimize services to provide scalable, stable, secure and highly performant systems
• Implement and maintain environment monitoring using the Azure Monitor suite.

WHO WE´RE LOOKING FOR?

• Min 2 years of experience in the following:
  • SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
  • Hyper-V, VMware, Nutanix
  • Azure Cloud
  • Azure DevOps
  • Windows/SQL Server
  • PowerShell scripting
  • Linux Operating System support
  • Good knowledge of Networking and Security technologies

• Azure Certification,
• One of the following certifications is required:
  • AZ 103 Microsoft Azure Administrator
  • AZ 301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design              
  • 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions   
• Windows Operating System Support (all),
• ITIL certified or working knowledge,
• Good communicator (verbal & written),
• Bilingual French and English is an asset.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Container platforms and tools, Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Registry,
• Azure DevOps,
• Azure PaaS Services, API Management, Azure App Service, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL,
• Identity Management, Azure AD, Azure AD B2C, and B2B, Azure Key Vault, Azure Security Center and Threat Detection,
• Cloud monitoring and reporting experience with Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Application Insights.

Professional Skills Qualifications:

• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment.
• Proven ability to work creatively in a problem-solving environment.
• Desire to work in an information systems environment.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in professional setting; either military or civilian.

WHAT´S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Competitive benefits, including a fair and balanced parental leave policy.
• Fantastic opportunities to develop your career across industries with local and global clients.
• Performance achievement and career mentorship: our performance management process focuses on your strengths, progress and career possibilities.
• Opportunities to get involved in corporate citizenship initiatives, from volunteering to charity work.