Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead in London with travel to guide enterprise-scale hybrid cloud initiatives. You will lead teams spanning consulting, delivery management and engineering to design, implement and optimize infrastructure that enables AI, ML and HPC workloads.

You will craft AI compute architectures across on-prem, colocation and cloud, ensuring secure, scalable GPU platforms and cost-efficient solutions while engaging CIO/CTO stakeholders across client

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.
• Infrastructure design, build, and management across data center, networks, compute, storage, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead the delivery of AI-ready infrastructure platforms for ML/GenAI/HPC workloads.
• Define AI compute architectures across on-prem, colocation and cloud with GPU platforms.

Skills

Client-facing consulting

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Leadership of distributed teams

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

VMware

Hyper-V

Nutanix

OpenShift

EKS

AKS

GKS

Job description

Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead

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.

Accenture’s Infrastructure Delivery Leads, manage high performing teams across 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

• 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.

Job 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 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)

Demonstrable experience with:

• GPU-based infrastructure design
• NVIDIA AI ecosystem
• CUDA and GPU architectures
• AI training environments
• AI inference platforms
• HPC infrastructure
• AI workload scheduling
• ML platform architectures

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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