Cloud Architect Consultant

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About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. Our 506,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise-strategic, industry, functional, technical-in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth. While the specific type of consulting work they do can vary, it generally aligns to management consulting, systems integration consulting or technology consulting. Typically, Consultants work at client sites, which often requires travel.

Job Description

Cloud Infrastructure professionals develop and deliver hosting solutions to meet today’s growing demand for agile and cost effective computing solutions. Using both private and public cloud technologies, our consulting professionals implement scalable, high performance hosting solutions that meet the need of today’s corporate and digital applications.  Additionally, our teams plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration to drive next-generation business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Eagerness to participate on a team designing cloud based application hosting and data services.

• Identify business requirements and corresponding cloud based solutions.

• Assess the full technology stack of services required including network, compute, storage, management and automation.

• Identify cloud ecosystem components across a variety of vendors that align with business objectives and meet technical design requirements.

• Compare and contrast alternatives across both technical and business parameters which support the define cost and service requirements.

• Apply Accenture methodology, Accenture reusable assets, and previous work experience to delivery consistently high quality work.

• Deliver written or oral status reports regularly.

• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.

• Extensive travel may be required.

• Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.

• Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.

• Use considerable judgment to define solution and seeks guidance on complex problems.

• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture. Establish methods and procedures on new assignments with guidance.

• Manage small teams and/or work efforts (if in an independent contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of technical architecture design, evaluation, and investigation.

• Minimum 2 to 3 years’ experience in DevOps and MicroServices

• Minimum of 4 years of Project Management experience (Project and Resource planning using MS Project).

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree.

• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in 3 of the following 5 areas:

  • Server Operating Systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.).

  • Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).

  • Cloud Computing and Storage (AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud)

  • Workload Migration Automation Tools (Double-Take, Racemi, etc.)

  • Cloud Management Platforms (vrealize, Gravitant, etc.)

  • Infrastructure provisioning and management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)   

 Preferred Skills:

• AWS, Azure or GCP certification

• Previous Consulting or client service delivery experience.

• Infrastructure (Server, Storage, and Database) discovery, design, build, and migration experience.

• Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations.

• Architectural exposure to Windows, LINUX, UNIX, VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, IIS Server, SAN, NAS, VCE/FlexPod, and other technologies.

• Hands-on experience with VBScript, TCP/IP, XML, C++, JavaScript.

• Technical/Team Leadership Experience.

• Personnel Development Experience (hiring, resource planning, performance feedback, etc.).

• Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.

Professional Skills Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral).

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem solving environment.

• Attention to Detail.

• Strong organizational & multi-tasking skills.

• Strong analytical skills and thought processes.

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.  We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

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, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.