Data Center Technology- Server Technologies- Consultant- Location Negotiable Job

Organization: Systems Integration and Technology


Location: Location Negotiable

Travel: 100% (Monday - Friday)

Systems Integration and Technology (SI&T) offers a full range of global delivery services-from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.

Our SI&T 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

Accenture Technology Consulting (ATC) falls within the SI&T 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.

Accenture's Next Generation Data Center solutions focus on achieving high performance by transforming all aspects of data center infrastructure and operations by centralizing data center facilities, rationalizing and virtualizing servers, implementing tiered and virtualized storage, and introducing automated provisioning, predictive operations and business service management capabilities-all while taking into account (and benefiting from) service-oriented architectures.

Job Description

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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 3 years of hands on experience with VMware, Citrix Xen, or Hyper-V

· Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Skills:

· Some combination of the following skills:

· 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

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 sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job: Infrastructure/IT Admin and Support
Primary Location: USA-VA - Reston
Other Location: USA-TX - Dallas, USA-CA - San Francisco, USA-IL - Chicago, USA-CA - San Jose, USA-NJ - Florham Park, USA-NY -New York, USA-GA - Atlanta, USA-DC - Washington, DC
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

Nearest Major Market: Washington DC
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