Accenture Hiring for Cloud Engineer – Windows at Minneapolis, Minnesota Full Time

Are you passionate about helping businesses reinvent the foundation of their business? In today’s digital and cloud-based world, businesses perform only as well as their IT infrastructure. Help be part of the solution in designing processes, selecting and implementing strategic tools, and establishing AIOps capabilities that leverage analytics, automation and machine learning.

The Cloud Engineer will need to have deep dive experience in Windows engineering. The role requires you to have hands-on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation / management and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include maintenance and performance tuning Cloud systems, deploying, maintaining and improving the systems that keep the backend infrastructure running smoothly.

We are looking for someone with:

• Hands on knowledge of Windows, especially latest Windows OSs.

• Experience with Windows servers in virtualized environments.

• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such as ntp,smtp,bind,Apache,etc.

• Experience installing and configuring AD, WSUS and SCCM.

• Experience in the installation, configuration, and administration of components in a large environment centered around best practices, to include vCenter, VMware Update Manager, vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Orchestrator, vCenter Cloud Automation Center, vCenter Site Recovery Manager

• Knowledge of Windows FS management.

• Experience in Patch Management

• Hands on experience on User/AD administration.

• Knowledge of DR activity/Storage migration.

• Cloud, Windows knowledge to provide L1 and L2 support on Windows infrastructure

• Experience with Microsoft Windows, Cloud templates, Virtual Machines, Windows disks, VNet, subnet creation and NSG UDR rules, Windows storage Monitoring & event management & alert dispatch for PaaS / IaaS Incident, Problem, Change, Request for PaaS

• Preferred Windows specialist certification

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Windows administrator for both on-prem and cloud

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Windows

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration or related field or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Good communication, teamwork and negotiation skills

• Familiarity with the main data manipulation languages and the principles of database design

• The ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure

• Good organizational skills

• Flexibility and adaptability

• Troubleshoot issues with Windows Cloud Deployment

• Comfortable in an individual contributor role and in a 24 x 7 support model

• The ability to create and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and customers

• Business awareness and understanding of business requirements of IT Willingness to keep up to date with developments in new technology

• Cloud Orchestration

• PowerShell

• Windows OS

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