Storage Architect

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:

 

Storage Technologies professionals develop and deliver technology solutions that establish the processes and devices for recording and storing enterprise data.

 

Key Responsibilities may include:

 

•               Planning, managing and participating in the diagnosis (current state), detailed design (future state) and deployment of storage related processes and technologies including storage, backup/ recovery and data management.

•               Identifying storage related business and technology requirements and validating that design results address them.

•               Identifying opportunities to drive more value from an organization's existing and planned storage investment through a combination of technical, operational and organizational initiatives.

•               Demonstrating high degree of hands on storage expertise to develop credibility with Accenture and client stakeholders; i.e. being recognized as an expert in one more storage vendor's products / areas.

•               Demonstrating holistic data center technologies knowledge (e.g. server, network, applications, etc.) to improve end to end solutions. 

•               Leading technology evaluation and selection efforts.

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

•               Minimum of 2 years of hands on experience with storage technologies (EMC / Network Appliance / Hitachi Data Systems / IBM / HP / Dell / Oracle), including architecture and design.

•               Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree

 

Preferred Skills:

 

•               Architecting and implementing storage, backup / recovery and/or data management solutions.

•               Designing scalable storage and backup / recovery architectures for critical business systems.

•               Design and deployment of advanced computing and storage technologies, e.g server virtualization, storage virtualization, etc.

•               Exposure to Hardware Platforms (Unix/Wintel - HP/Sun/IBM etc.) and Operating Systems (Windows/Unix/Linux)

•               Some combination of the following skills:

•               Designing / deploying Information Management Lifecycle solutions

•               Data center (including application and data) migration / consolidation.

•               Datacenter/Server/Network Operational Components (Monitoring, Management, etc.)

•               ITIL concepts

•               Application/Database rationalization design/implementation

•               Asset Management (Experience with tools/process)

•               Planning future storage capacity

•               Implementing disaster recovery processes and procedures

•               Maintaining problem tracking and resolution at a detailed level for service requests

•               Performance tuning of servers and related systems

•               Writing scripts for automation of tasks

 

Professional Skill Requirements:

 

•               Experience in project management and detailed technical planning

•               Supervisory experience including demonstrated leadership to grow and develop other people

•               Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

•               Generating detailed documentation

 

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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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer.