Job Description
Infrastructure Operations Technology Support Specialist
Do you wish to redefine yourself in this post-digital age by stretching your own professional skill and capability boundary?
Accenture Labs is Accenture’s primary technology R&D organization. Our mission is to publish a yearly Technology Vision, produce patents, explore emerging technologies and develop compelling prototypes that demonstrate the business implications of emerging technologies for various industries. Our Labs are located across 7 geographies: Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. (USA), Dublin (Ireland), Sophia Antipolis (France), Tel-Aviv (Israel), Bangalore (India), and Shenzhen (China). Current R&D focus areas include, but are not limited to: Digital Experiences, Artificial Intelligence, Systems & Platforms, Security, and Application Engineering.
The Work
The Technology Support Specialist supports the Infrastructure Operations team in Accenture Labs. This role supports the roll-out and maintenance of Labs IT needed to conduct R&D activities including developing and supporting technology on both Cloud and On-Prem. This role will be managing technology procurement and asset inventory. This role also provides technical support during Labs visits and maintains tools in support of this. The ideal candidate should have a foundational background in Cloud, DevOps and security. Your responsibilities will be, but are not limited to:
Ensuring software/application availability for end users
Providing outage resolution support and facilitating restoration of service to the production environment through investigating the cause of the outage and organizing calls/resources needed to restore service
Creating disaster recovery plans and establishing disaster recovery procedures to ensure recovery capability
Monitoring systems and trends to prevent occurrence of incidents
For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.
Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.
Qualifications
Here's What You Need:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software engineering or related field
3+ years of experience managing IT operations and IT support
3+ years of DevOps experience
2+ years of Security Related Experience:
Windows:
Event log analysis
Patching/Security: SCCM, AD/Group Policy,
Monitoring: Zabbix, Nagios, SolarWinds
Linux:
Log Server: Rsyslog, Splunk
Systems Security Configuration: Git, Puppet, Chef
IDS: AIDE, Fail2Ban
Systems/Security Tools: Solar Winds, Nagios, Zabbix, Tcpdump, Wireshark, NMAP
1+ years of experience in Systems Administration
Advanced time management, organizational, prioritization and communication skills
Bonus points if you have:
Worked with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack or Terraform
Experience working with Containers using Docker, Kubernetes, or other OCI (Open Containers Initiative) compliant runtimes,
Experience with Shell scripting or Python
Experience working with CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) tools such as Jenkins or Spinnaker
Experience providing technical guidance and educating team members
Systems and Network Administration
Windows Server
Linux (e.g. Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.)
On-Prem Virtualization: Cisco UCS, NetApp, VMWare Hypervisor
Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google, etc.
Backup/Storage
Assisting with Global iOPS security Vulnerabilities and Compliance issues
Assisting with Labs Client Data Protection (CDP) Plans
As required by Colorado law under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is $56,484 to $112,600 and information on benefits offered is here.
COVID-19 update:
The safety and well-being of our candidates, our people and their families continues to be a top priority. Until travel restrictions change, interviews will continue to be conducted virtually.
Subject to applicable law, please be aware that Accenture requires all employees to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment. Accenture will consider requests for accommodation to this vaccination requirement during the recruiting process.
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