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Join Accenture and help transform top organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career. Accenture Operations delivers continuous, rapid fire innovation and new business capabilities that meet —and redefine—the needs of the digital era. You’ll help our clients—including 94 of the Fortune 100 and governments around the world—transform their technology infrastructures using resources that range from cloud, data centers and workplace to networks, security and managed services.Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise-strategic, industry, functional, technical-in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth. While the specific type of consulting work they do can vary, it generally aligns to management consulting, systems integration consulting or technology consulting. Typically, Consultants work at client sites, which often requires travel.Job Description:Accenture’s Intelligent Cloud & Infrastructure (ICI) Consultants 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 infrastructure transformation solutions. ICI professionals can span multiple areas of expertise as they work with different client teams on different engagements. ICI Professional are infrastructure generalists with an expertise in one or more of our core practice areas: Workplace and Collaboration, Network Technology, Service Management and Cloud/Hosting.Key Responsibilities:
Assess, plan, organize, and
manage network design and implementation projects
Perform assessments of client
network environments, identify gaps and performance improvement
opportunities based on leading industry practices
Development of implementation
roadmap and transition plans
Create presentations
outlining findings and present to the client managers and engineers
Work with clients to develop
network strategies for architecture and engineering solutions from concept
through implementation.
Develop network detailed
designs in the following areas: software defined networking, network
segmentation, network access control, network security and cloud
networking components
Analyze and provide
recommendations for emerging network technologies
Implement network
infrastructures solutions (hands-on engineering, configuration, testing,
deployment and initial support)
Project management activities
including work planning, status reporting, client relationship management,
and project financial management.
Establish and maintain good
working relationships with clients including director level personnel
Drive internal and
client-facing meetings, prepare reports and presentations
Develop internal white papers
and knowledge capital on network technology topics
100% travel is required
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum of 4 years of
experience in network infrastructure solutions architecture, engineering,
implementation, integrations and operations of enterprise and
carrier-class networks
Minimum of 4 years of
technical experience and strong working knowledge of IP Internetworking,
LAN Switching, WAN and network security are expected
Minimum of 2 years of
experience working with cloud based network infrastructures (AWS &
Azure) and Carrier neutral facilities (CNFs)
Minimum of 2 years of
technical experience in the following areas:
Expert knowledge of the IP
protocol suite
Extensive experience with
the following technologies SDN - preferably Cisco ACI, Cisco SD WAN, SD
Access, NFV, DMVPN, MPLS, VRF, BGP, EIGRP, QoS, PBR, VSS, Cisco ISE, WAN
Optimization technologies and NG Firewalls
Experience with network
segmentation, management, automation and orchestration tools (i.e. Cisco
DNA center, Cisco Tetration and others). Scripting experience with Python
and other languages are desired
Minimum of 2 years of
experience in project management
Bachelor's degree or
equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate’s Degree, must
have minimum 6 years work experience
100% travel is required
Preferred Skills:
Desired vendor
certifications are strongly preferred (e.g., CCIE, CCNP, CCDP and others)
3 years of
hands-on experience with three or more Cisco platforms
Previous network
consulting practice experience is preferred
Experience with
non-Cisco products and technologies such as Palo Alto, F5 and Juniper
networks
Proficiency in Microsoft Office
Professional Skill Requirements:
Proven ability to
work independently and as a team member
Proven ability to
lead teams and develop network analysts, consultants and engineers
Proven
analytical, problem solving, organizational and time management skills
Good
communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management
skills
Applicants for employment in the US must have work
authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa
for employment authorization in the United States and with
Accenture. Candidates who are currently employed by a client of
Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for
consideration. Accenture is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of
Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.Equal Employment Opportunity:All employment decisions shall be made without regard
to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry,
disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any
other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose
sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring
process.Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment
opportunities to our service men and women. About Accenture:Accenture is a leading global professional services
company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience
and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business
functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture
works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve
their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With
more than 435,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture
drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
