Data Center Rationalization

Schedule: Full-time

 

Organization:   Technology Growth Platform

 

Location:          Location Negotiable

 

Travel:              100% (Monday - Friday)

 

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

               Receive continuous training

               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.

 

Job Description:

 

This position will focus on delivering projects in the field of platform technologies including data center rationalizing (DCR) studies/opportunity assessments, server/storage/data center consolidation business case and assessments. As a part of platform technology specialty within Accenture, these individuals will possess skills in data center operational technologies ranging from technical skills such as operating systems and server/storage hardware to business effectiveness skills such as establishing total cost of ownership (TCO) models for data centers and developing a business case for cost saving opportunities.

 

Key Responsibilities may include:

 

The position will require strong client facing skills and an acute understanding of consulting. The candidate will operate in both a functional Project manager capacity for existing/ongoing data center rationalization projects, and as sales/engineering support for newly identified opportunities. 100% travel requirement.

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

               Minimum of 1 year of experience with data center rationalization, consolidation, relocation, migration, or virtualization projects.

               Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree.

 

Preferred Skills:

 

               Experience planning and executing data center consolidations, relocations, and migrations.

               Hands on experience designing and building new data centers.

               Ability to perform infrastructure discovery and assessments and provide technical solutions.

               Demonstrate a holistic understanding of Data Center Operations (i.e. Production operations, Server, Storage, Network, Data Base Mgt., Systems Mgt., Helpdesk, DR/Business recovery practices etc.). 

               Familiarity with functional operations of server, storage, and network functions. 

               General understanding of all data center functions (production operations, network, change control, DR/Business recovery, helpdesk, systems management, and facilities) with a focus on server, storage, and database technologies.

               Holistic understanding of the interdependencies of data center functions and technologies.

               Data Center/Server Consolidation Project Experience.

               Server Platform Technologies ( Unix/Wintel/MVS - HP/Sun/IBM etc.) skills.

               Storage Platform Technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware Software (EMC/NetApp/Sun/IBM/HP etc.).

               Server/Data Center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). 

               Data Center/Server Operational Components (Monitoring, Management, etc.).

               Asset Management (Experience with tools/process) Other Technologies (VMWare/Virtualization, etc.).

               Facilities Management (Power, HVAC, Hard Wire Topologies, etc.). 

               Sales/engineering support for technical proposals. 

 

Professional Skill Requirements:

 

               Program/Project Management  

 

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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 an Equal Opportunity Employer.