AI Infrastructure Architect — Hybrid Cloud & GPU HPC

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland in London is seeking an AI Infrastructure Delivery Lead to drive hybrid cloud initiatives for large enterprise clients. The role sits in Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering within the Digital Core Reinvention group, focused on scalable GPU-enabled platforms across on-prem, colocation and cloud.

You will lead high-performing teams across consulting, delivery management, project execution and technical expertise to plan, analyse, design, test, and deploy

Qualifications

• Strong client-facing consulting experience.
• Ability to engage effectively with CIO, CTO and AI leadership teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading distributed architecture and engineering teams.
• Commercial awareness and business case development capability.
• Infrastructure design, build, and management across data centers, networks, compute and storage.
• Cloud migrations, operations and lifecycle management.
• Cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Cloud and Infrastructure Security & Resilience (DR, HA, Backup & Recovery)
• Virtualization Platforms (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix)
• Container Platforms (e.g., Openshift, EKS, AKS, GKS)
• Infrastructure Automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python)

Responsibilities

• Design, architect and lead the delivery of AI-ready infrastructure platforms that enable large-scale machine learning (ML), generative AI (GenAI), agentic AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for defining AI compute architectures across on-premises, colocation and cloud environments, helping clients establish secure, scalable and cost-efficient GPU platforms that support training, fine-tuning and inference workloads.

Skills

Client-facing consulting

CIO/CTO engagement

Communication skills

Distributed architecture leadership

Business case development

Infrastructure design & management

Cloud migrations & operations

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Security & resilience

Virtualization platforms

Container platforms

Infrastructure automation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

VMware

Hyper-V

Nutanix

OpenShift

EKS

AKS

GKE

CUDA

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland in London is seeking an AI Infrastructure Delivery Lead to drive hybrid cloud initiatives for large enterprise clients. The role sits in Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering within the Digital Core Reinvention group, focused on scalable GPU-enabled platforms across on-prem, colocation and cloud.

You will lead high-performing teams across consulting, delivery management, project execution and technical expertise to plan, analyse, design, test, and deploy