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Accenture'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: Workplace and Collaboration, Network Technology, Service Management, Hybrid Cloud, Public Cloud, and traditional Data Center.

The work:

• Participate on a team designing, building and/or testing infrastructure and cloud infrastructure focused solutions
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions for enterprise infrastructure operations.
• Thoroughly document all facets of infrastructure solutions
• 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
• Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems
• Understand the strategic direction set by management as it relates to team goals
• Use considerable judgment to contribute to solutions and seek guidance on complex problems.
• Manage small teams and/or work efforts (if in an independent contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

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Qualifications

Here's what you will need:

All Accenture Cloud Infrastructure Consultants are expected to meet the following general qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
• Minimum of 2 years of project management experience serving as a team lead, technical lead and/or delivery lead
• Minimum of 2 years infrastructure/network discovery, design, build, and migration experience

Accenture Cloud infrastructure Consultants are expected to meet the below qualifications in one or more of the following focus areas:

Workplace and Collaboration

• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in 3 of the following areas:
  • Collaboration Technologies (O365, Email, Skype, Cisco WebEx, G-Suite)
  • Mobility Technologies (InTune, Airwatch)
  • Laptop Asset/Patch Management (SCCM, Jamf, Lamda, HPCA)
  • Single Sign-on (Microsoft, Okta)
  • Core Workplace Services (AD, DNS, DHCP, File Services, Print Services)
  • Cloud Storage (OneDrive, Box, Google Drive)
  • Computer Workspace Lifecycle Management (Upgrade management for Windows, OSX)
  • Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, Citrix, Azure, AWS)

Network Technology

• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in 2 of the following areas:
  • LAN/WAN Technologies (Viptela/Velocoud/Meraki)
  • Data Center Network Technologies (load balancers, firewalls)
  • Network programming (REST API)

Service Management

• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in 3 of the following areas:
  • Infrastructure Automation, including:
    • IT teams in identifying and executing automation opportunities
    • Infrastructure-as-code, orchestration of scripted processes, and/or containers
    • Use of agile approaches to create and execute automation initiatives
  • Service Management Transformation
  • Cloud Operating Model
  • ServiceNow, Service Assurance Toolsets
• Possess an understanding of IT Service Management (ITSM) principles, ITIL guidelines and how operations automation helps improve IT services and ITSM processes

Cloud/Hosting

• Minimum of 2 years Infrastructure (Server, Storage, and Database) discovery, design, build, and migration experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in 3 of the following areas:
  • Server Operating Systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.)
  • Storage (EMC, NetApp, Glacier, S3, etc.)
  • Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V, etc.)
  • Cloud Computing and Storage (AWS, Azure)
  • Workload Migration Automation Tools (Double-Take, Racemi, etc.)
  • Cloud Management Platforms (vRealize, Gravitant, etc.)
  • Infrastructure Automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
  • Collaboration (Microsoft SharePoint, Skype for Business, Yammer, OneDrive)
  • Service Management as it relates to Cloud/Hosting (ITSM, ITIL, Service Now)

Bonus points if:

• Infrastructure technology certifications including but not limited to AWS/Azure/Microsoft Collaboration/Cisco
• Previous Consulting or client service delivery experience.

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