Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead Manager in London to guide enterprise-scale hybrid cloud transformations. You will lead cross-functional teams across consulting, delivery management, and engineering to architect, implement and govern on-prem and cloud AI infrastructure.

The role requires strong client-facing skills and the ability to engage senior technology leaders. The position emphasizes delivering end-to-end cloud infrastructure strategies, managing migrations,

Qualifications

• Strong client-facing consulting experience.
• Ability to engage CIO, CTO and AI leadership teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading distributed architecture and engineering teams.
• Infrastructure design, build and management in data centers, networks, compute and storage.
• Cloud migrations, operations and lifecycle management experience.
• Cloud services experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Knowledge of virtualization and container platforms.
• Infrastructure automation skills (Terraform, Ansible, Python).

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to architect, engineer, operate and govern on-premises and cloud AI infrastructure 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 our clients.

Skills

Strong client-facing consulting

CIO/CTO AI leadership engagement

Excellent communication skills

Distributed architecture leadership

Commercial acumen & business cases

Infra design and management

Cloud strategy & migration experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

VMware

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Job description

Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead Manager

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 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:

• Lead in teams to architect, engineer, operate and govern on-premises and cloud AI infrastructure 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.

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• 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)

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.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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