Data Center Technology- Storage 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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Storage Technologies professionals develop and deliver technology solutions that establish the processes and devices for recording and storing enterprise data.

Key Responsibilities may include:

· Planning, managing and participating in the diagnosis (current state), detailed design (future state) and deployment of storage related processes and technologies including storage, backup/ recovery and data management.

· Identifying storage related business and technology requirements and validating that design results address them.

· Identifying opportunities to drive more value from an organization's existing and planned storage investment through a combination of technical, operational and organizational initiatives.

· Demonstrating high degree of hands on storage expertise to develop credibility with Accenture and client stakeholders; i.e. being recognized as an expert in one more storage vendor's products / areas.

· Demonstrating holistic data center technologies knowledge (e.g. server, network, applications, etc.) to improve end to end solutions.

· Leading technology evaluation and selection efforts.

Basic

Qualifications:

· Minimum of 2 years of hands on experience with storage and backup / recovery technologies including Hardware & Software (EMC/ Network Appliance / Hitachi Data Systems/ Sun Storagetek/ IBM/ or HP EVA or Storageworks) including administration and/or architecture.

· Minimum of 2 years of experience in storage, backup, recovery, and/or data management.

· Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Skills:

· Designing and implementing storage, backup / recovery and/or data management solutions.

· Designing scalable storage and backup / recovery architectures for critical business systems.

· Design and deployment of advanced computing and storage technologies, e.g server virtualization, storage virtualization, etc.

· Exposure to Hardware Platforms (Unix/Wintel - HP/Sun/IBM etc.) and Operating Systems (Windows/Unix/Linux)

· Some combination of the following skills:

· Designing / deploying Information Management Lifecycle solutions

· Data center (including application and data) migration / consolidation.

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

· ITIL concepts

· Application/Database rationalization design/implementation

· Asset Management (Experience with tools/process)

· Planning future storage capacity

· Implementing disaster recovery processes and procedures

· Maintaining problem tracking and resolution at a detailed level for service requests

· Performance tuning of servers and related systems

· Writing scripts for automation of tasks

Professional

Skill Requirements:

· Experience in project management and detailed technical planning

· Supervisory experience including demonstrated leadership to grow and develop other people

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

· 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: Design, Development & Implementation
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
Job Segments: Computer, Consulting, Database, Service, Technology