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Accenture
AWS Solutions Architect
Are you ready to step up to the New and take your technology expertise to the next level?
Accenture is looking for passionate and customer obsessed AWS cloud developers and AWS solutions architects to join our AWS Practice. You will help drive innovation, build differentiated solutions, and define new customer experiences for our customers (and customers, customers). You’ll work with smart people across our industry specialist organizations, and technology groups to help our customers get the most out of AWS in their cloud journey.
The AWS Practice within is home to our deepest AWS experts and supports Accenture’s more than 1,500 certified AWS architects across the company. Join our team and be among Accenture’s most talented AWS practitioners, our AWS SWAT team. The group is responsible for Accenture’s most complex AWS projects and provides our delivery capability for the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG). AABG is the deepest relationship Amazon Web Services has with any partner in the ecosystem. Choosing Accenture and the AWS Practice will take your AWS experience and skills to the next level and allow you to work in an innovative and collaborative environment. At Accenture, you can lead the world’s largest enterprises on the path to native cloud transformation and serverless, on the leading edge of cloud.
Join Accenture and help transform leading 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.
Learn more about our AABG and AWS at Accenture here: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/service-aws-cloud
Key responsibilities may include:
Interact with management levels at a client and/or within Accenture
Design and Implement AWS architectures and environments
Design Native Cloud Application Architectures or optimize applications for AWS
Design Migration Approaches from On Prem to AWS using AWS native tools including CloudEndure, MGN, DataSync
Contribute or author blogs, whitepapers, presentations on AWS technical and strategic topics
Contribute to the Accenture AWS community meetups, assets, and tools
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Qualifications
Here’s what you need:
Minimum 4 years hands-on keyboard AWS experience, with deeper capabilities and interests in specific services.
Must have hands-on AWS experience with at least 1 implementation and/or Migration into AWS (preferred in an Enterprise scale environment)
Minimum required AWS certification must include AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associate or Professional)
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience
Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS EAC (environments as code)
Familiar with Automation/IAC (infrastructure As Code) Solutions– CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, etc.
Experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as:
Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies
CloudEndure, MGN, DataSync
Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design
Environment and application automation
CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy
Network connectivity, Direct Connect and VPN
AWS Cost Management and Optimization
Bonus if you have:
A system engineering or developer background with the ability to learn quickly and share your knowledge with the broader team.
A mindset of automate everything, with experience demonstrating this.
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