Data Center Technology and Operations Manager Job

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description

Technology Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering technology innovation and providing the backbone of our systems integration business.

Data Center professionals develop and deliver strategies and solutions for housing the computer systems and communications equipment -- including servers, databases, storage devices, etc. -- that handle the data necessary for enterprise operations.

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

·Bachelor's degree and prior relevant business experience.

·Data Centre operational experience

·Virtualisation technology experience

·Ability to articulate development, operational and technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

·Ability to express complex technical concepts, issues and ideas into various media; proposals, white papers, presentations and architecture designs

·Ability to meet travel requirements, when applicable.

Professional Skill Requirements

·Proven success in team management

·Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

·Desire to work in an information systems environment

·Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Job: Infrastructure/IT Admin and Support
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Location: Australia-Sydney
Organisation: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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