senior cloud architect

Through unmatched industry experience, leading technologies from our ecosystem partners and startups, and the largest delivery network in the world, we provide a powerful range of capabilities that can be tailored to our client’s most complex business needs. With over 100 innovation hubs deployed around the world, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale so they can outpace their peers. You will bring innovation, intelligence and industry experience together with the newest technologies to help clients innovate at scale and transform their businesses.

Technology is one of four services–the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Operations.

WORK YOU’LL DO

As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will be involved in the design, implementation and management of technology-based business solutions based on Cloud Services to improve our clients’ delivery approach.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing new and existing public cloud services and create solutions that meet stakeholder requirements and standards

• Owning the end-to-end delivery of solutions which will include developing, testing and releasing Infrastructure as Code

• Help our clients modernize their architecture and core technologies

• Contributing to the refinement of technical requirements

• Designing and implementing secure, scalable, and innovative solutions to meet client's requirements

• Creating and updating applicable technical documentation

• Coaching and mentoring other team members

• Consult on best engineering practices, quality standards and principles

• Build full-stack automated quality - IaC, deployment, and monitoring and Promote best practices for building and operating highly reliable systems, to our clients

• You will be analyzing and implementing configuration changes and assisting in the design of cloud related solutions to meet both functional and technical requirements

Qualification

WHO WE´RE LOOKING FOR?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering

• Extensive working knowledge of Cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure

• Excellent communication skills verbal & written in English. To be able to communicate with IT teams and departments, end users and customers

• Vast experience in developing associated business cases and plans which are detailed, actionable and aligned with industry best practices

• Ability to solve complex technical problems and accomplish tasks with minimal supervision

• Experience supporting career & knowledge development for engineers early in their career

• Ability to support project team to prioritize activities and provide deliverables as planned

Desirable experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Industry vendor certifications are desired (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP or CNCF/Kubernetes certifications); although not essential if you have demonstrable ability

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining solutions in GCP or AWS or Azure

• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools such as Azure DevOps / GitLab

• Strong background in Linux/UNIX administration (e.g. RedHat/CentOS 7/Alpine Linux)

• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible

• Developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Azure Bicep or Terraform

• Familiar with containers (Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker etc.)

• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (bash, Powershell, Python)

• Knowledge of cloud monitoring and alerting services and capabilities.

WHAT´S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Competitive benefits, including a fair and balanced parental leave policy.

• At Accenture, we believe in bringing the best to our clients through continuous learning & improvement – from basic skills to industry-specific content – available to all our people.

• Career coaching and mentorship to help you manage your career and develop professionally.

• Performance Achievement – our performance management process that focuses on your strengths, progress and career possibilities.

• Fantastic opportunities to develop your career across a variety of clients.

• Opportunities to get involved in corporate citizenship initiatives, from volunteering to doing charity work.