Datacenter Technologies and Operations Consultant - Mississauga, ON 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:

· Driving, supervising and reviewing technology diagnosis and assessment activities

· Identifying opportunities for technology-related improvement based on benchmark data and doing high-level cost benefit analysis

· Developing a high level design which supports a robust technology solution, taking into account the user requirements, technical requirements, etc.

· Driving technology architecture and infrastructure design activities

· Reviewing and supervising design components

· Developing design and transition approaches

· Driving and supervising technology build, test and deployment activities

· Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and supporting application development

· 3 Years Hardware Platform experience (Unix/Wintel - HP/Sun/IBM etc.)

· 3 Years Operating Systems experience (Windows/Unix - All versions)

· 3 Years experience with Application/Database rationalization design/implementation - includes application migration/consolidation and database rationalization experience.

· 3 Years experience with Storage Technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware & Software (EMC/NetApp/Sun/IBM/HP etc.)

· Datacenter/Server Operational Components experience an asset

· Datacenter/Server Consolidation Project Experience an asset

· Experience with virtualized environments (VMware, etc.)

· Experience with back-up, archiving and vaulting (Symantec/Veritas Netbackup and all the associated hardware and networking related to back-up solutions).

· Ability to translate technologies and create business cases

· ITIL ceritification preferred

· Flexibility to travel up to 100%

Professional Skill Requirements

· Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment

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

· Desire to work in an information systems environment

· Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

· Excellent leadership and management skills

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 186,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2008. Its home page is www.accenture.com .

We are committed to employment equity. We encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply

Job: Infrastructure/IT Admin and Support
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Location: Canada-Ontario - Toronto
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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