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Job Description
Location: Arlington, VA/Washington DC
Travel: Flexible to travel to client sites
Technology Growth Platform (TGP) offers a full range of global delivery services—from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.
Our TGP consultants can expect to:
- Work with cutting edge technology
- Deliver high‑quality solutions across multiple industries
- Work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope
- Gain rapid career progression
IT Strategy, Infrastructure and Security (ISIS) falls within the TGP organization and provides services aimed at improving the strategic intent, transforming economics and effectiveness, and the overall design, of a company’s information technology capabilities and/or functions. Information technology capabilities include IT planning and management, IT processes and approaches, and IT assets that provide the operational components necessary to run applications.
Cloud Technologies professionals develop and deliver cloud technology strategies and solutions that enable clients to move their legacy applications to the cloud and new applications to the cloud.
Key responsibilities may include:
- Planning and managing assessment activities and defining high‑level program/action plans
- Identifying opportunities to drive more value from an organization’s IT strategy through technology strategies in targeted areas, including technology infrastructure (overall as well as security, networks, and desktop) and technology architecture (overall as well as mobility, portals, and information management)
- Ensuring technology requirements will allow modeling and address performance and security
- Ensuring high‑level design supports a robust technology solution, taking into account user requirements, technical requirements, etc. (e.g., solution architecture)
- Planning and managing technology design activities
- Being recognized as an expert on one or more cloud technology vendors/products/areas
- Leading the technology evaluation and selection effort
- Planning and managing capacity planning activities in case of Private cloud
- Planning and managing program‑wide technology build, test and deployment activities
- Being an expert in troubleshooting and performance tuning one or more technology products
- Responsible for leading the definition and design of solution architectures, for conducting the analysis of alternative architectures, creating architectural standards, defining processes to ensure conformance to standards, instituting solution‑testing criteria, defining a solution’s cost‑of‑ownership and promoting a clear and consistent business vision through technical architecture
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 3 years of hands‑on experience with cloud technologies with experience in at least two of the following: AWS, Azure, Google, Private Cloud, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service
- 3 years of hands‑on experience with cloud architecture and design
Preferred Skills:
- Virtualization and cloud architecture experience
- Designing and implementing cloud solutions
- Application/Database rationalization design/implementation – includes application migration/consolidation and database rationalization
- Storage Technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware & Software (EMC/ Network Appliance/ Sun Storagetek/ IBM/ HP EVA or Storageworks)
- Advanced computing and storage technologies – server virtualization and partitioning, storage virtualization
- ITIL concepts, in particular for Help Desk, Incident, and Problem Management
- Experience implementing and maintaining methodology
- Asset Management (Experience with tools/process)
- Designing and implementing server solutions
- Designing cloud architectures for critical business systems
- Experience in project management and detailed technical planning
- Implementing disaster recovery processes and procedures
- Maintaining problem tracking and resolution at a detailed level for service requests
- Performing file system maintenance and data migration
- Performance tuning of servers and related systems
- Writing scripts for automation of tasks
Professional Skill Requirements:
- Program and Project leadership
An active security clearance or the ability to obtain one may be required for this role.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require, now or in the future, sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
Accenture is a federal contractor and an EEO and affirmative action employer of females/minorities/veterans/individuals with disabilities.
Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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