Cloud Migration Consultant at Accenture

The Work:
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.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineers contribute to the project management and provide technical expertise to partner with our clients to plan, analyze, design, test and deploy enterprise scale end-to-end cloud transformations solutions. Cloud Migration Consultants will focus on the strategy and delivery of cloud migration but may also span multiple areas of expertise as they work with different client teams on different engagements.

Job Description

• 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 deliver 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 to 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
• 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 teams and/or work efforts (if in an independent contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.
• For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.

Here's what you need:

• Minimum of 4 years Infrastructure (Server, Storage, and Database) discovery, design, build, and migration experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of Project Management experience serving as a team lead, technical lead and/or delivery lead.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in 3 of the following areas:
• Datacenter migration
• Datacenter Operations Management
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM)
• Server Operating Systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.)
• Storage (EMC, NetAp, 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.)
• Bonus Points if:
• MBA or MIS advanced Degree
• AWS or Azure certification
• PMP certification
• Previous consulting or client service delivery experience.
• Experience with network technologies
• 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.
• Personnel Development Experience (hiring, resource planning, performance feedback, etc.)