Virtualization 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:

 

Server Technologies professionals develop and deliver server technology strategies and solutions that enable computers residing on the same or different systems to access and utilize enterprise data.

 

Key responsibilities may include:

 

•               Planning and managing diagnosis and 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 the user requirements, technical requirements, etc. (e.g., solution architecture)

•               Planning and managing technology design activities

•               Being recognized as an expert on one or more technology vendors/products/areas

•               Leading the technology evaluation and selection effort

•               Planning and managing capacity planning activities

•               Planning and managing program-wide technology build, test and deployment activities

•               Being an expert in troubleshooting and performance tuning one or more technology products

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

•               Minimum of 1 year of hands on experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, Citrix Xen, Hyper-V, LPARs, VPARs, Logical Domains, Zones, and/or Containers).

•               Minimum of 1 year of hands on experience with server technologies (Windows, UNIX, Linux, and/or Solaris), including administration and/or architecture.

•               Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree

 

Preferred Skills:

 

•               Some combination of the following skills:

•               Virtualization and infrastructure architecture experience

•               Designing and implementing virtualization technologies

•               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/ or HP EVA or Storageworks) 

•               Advanced computing and storage technologies - server virtualization and partitioning, storage virtualization

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

•               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 scalable server architectures for critical business systems

•               Experience in project management and detailed technical planning

•               Planning future server capacity

•               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

•               Supervisory experience

•               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.