Cloud Infrastructure Architect

ACCENTURE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in London is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Architect to lead hybrid cloud initiatives for large enterprise clients. You will architect, implement and govern on‑premise and cloud platforms, delivering end‑to‑end infrastructure transformation.

You’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams, stay current with market offerings, and drive automation and resilience through Terraform, Ansible and container platforms.

Qualifications

• Proven success working in infrastructure architecture, engineering and delivery teams.
• Infrastructure design, build, and management experience in datacenter, networks, compute and storage.
• Cloud migrations, operations and lifecycle management experience.
• Cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud security & resilience (DR, HA).
• Virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper‑V, Nutanix) and container platforms (OpenShift, EKS, AKS).
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to architect, engineer, operate and govern on‑premise and cloud solutions.
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions – including provisioning, configuring, managing, migrating and automating platforms on premise and in the cloud.
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to clients.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

On-premise & cloud integration

Automation (Terraform/Ansible/Python)

Virtualization (VMware/Hyper‑V)

Container platforms (OpenShift/EKS/AKS

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Job description

Job Description

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Family: Infrastructure Transformation Associate Manger – CL8

Location: London (with expected travel)

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

In this role you will:

Accenture’s Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering practice, within our Digital Core Reinvention group, is focused on providing best in class hybrid cloud infrastructure for large enterprise clients. Our team provides full lifecycle cloud and infrastructure services from consulting on strategy to leading large technology implementations. To learn more about the Infrastructure Engineering group, please visit our site.

Accenture’s Infrastructure Consultants provide consulting, delivery management, project execution, and technical expertise to partner with our clients to plan, analyse, design, test, and deploy enterprise scale end-to-end hybrid cloud transformation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead in teams to architect, engineer, operate and govern on-premise and cloud solutions
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions – including architecting, provisioning, configuring, managing, migrating and automating platforms on premise and in the cloud.
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.

Qualification

• Job Qualifications
  • Proven success working in infrastructure architecture, engineering and delivery teams.
  • Infrastructure design, build, and management experience in some of the following areas:
    • Infrastructure fundamentals (e.g., Datacenter, Networks, Compute, Storage)
    • Cloud and Infrastructure Migrations, Operations and Lifecycle management
    • Cloud services (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft 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)

Locations

London

Additional Information

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