Cloud engineer

Job Description:

Do you possess a deep understanding of how business change, new technologies and advanced cloud and infrastructure paradigms impact and transform the IT landscape?
The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering department in Sweden is looking for a Cloud Engineer who will use knowledge and skills to challenge your teammates and leaders to innovate on extensive existing knowledge and expertise to provide sustainable disrupting solutions, exceeding industry standards, to our clients.

Infrastructure Engineering - your new department You will join more than 20 highly skilled and equally motivated colleagues in Sweden. We are part of Accenture Technology which consists of 400+ colleagues and just like the rest of Accenture, we work across industries. We simply assemble the best possible team for any given project. Our skills cover all kinds of technologies as well as methodologies and this combination makes us a wanted resource and valued contributor across all projects in Accenture. Private, public, small, big or even enormous. Doesn't matter. We are ready, and we can be so because we foster a positive environment built on knowledge sharing, cooperation, and on-going development.

As a Cloud Expert/Engineer, you will be: Using your knowledge and skills to challenge your teammates and leaders to innovate on extensive existing knowledge and expertise to provide sustainable disrupting solutions, exceeding industry standards, to our clients. This could take the form of:

* Client workshops where we share our knowledge, plan and/or design solutions for our clients 
* Designing, provisioning and/or securing cloud architectures for global and local business critical systems for our clients 
* Bringing your skills to our clients by orchestrating and automating environments for a proof-of-concept demo or even getting ready for a production deployment 
* Engaging in architecture or other training as a student or faculty  In all of this, you can rest assured that Accenture have high ethical standards which make you proud to work for an organization like this which also cares first and foremost for our people.

We believe: You are passionate about technology and its adoption. You have a strong background in IT infrastructure and are, or want to become, an expert within on-prem, cloud and hybrid cloud solutions, working with the major cloud providers such as Microsoft, AWS, Google and others. 

You are a team player with a focus on delivery with excellent communication and people skills.

Here's what you need: 
* An academic degree, preferably at Master's level or equivalent experience
* 2-5 years' experience working with one or more cloud providers' technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or on-prem technologies 
* Experience as a developer and/or technical architect
* Experience with infrastructure and thinks about automation in all stages of the construction and deployment processes
* Worked according to agile methods, DevOps and principles from Lean
* The ability to articulate your knowledge to not only other technical people, but also to non-technical business focused people and help them understand what the technology would mean to them and why they should care 
* An understanding of Cloud Native development practices  
* Experience working with infrastructure transformation and/or cloud transformation 
* Experience with cloud ecosystems, from transforming requirements into design all the way down to operations 
* Excellent communication and people skills 
* Fluency in Swedish and English is must, both spoken and written
* Swedish work permit

Bonus points if you have knowledge/experience in: 
* Microservice architecture 
* Design and scaling of IT systems 
* CI/CD, automation and security 
* Container platforms such as OpenShift, Google Anthos, Azure Kubernetes service, VMware Tanzu 
* Integration architecture and integration/event solutions such as Cloud Suppliers Integration Services, Kafka, JBoss Fuse, Solace, Mule ESB 
* API and Event driven architecture 
* Technical architecture-standards, security and frameworks 
* Infra as a code, security controls, monitoring tools, DevOps-tools and services such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Ant, Maven, Chef, Docker, Git, Jenkins 
* Consulting or client service delivery 

How's it like working for Accenture?  To give you a clearer impression of who we are and what we're looking for, we've asked Michael Nabb to tell us a bit about a career at Accenture:

I've been with the firm for more than seveteen years and what has been consistent throughout those years has been a close collaboration with clients to help them achieve their goals. I've helped some of the largest businesses in the Nordics adapt to a changing world by introducing new technologies or improving the usage of existing ones. I look back and feel proud about playing an important part in the success of our clients.

Besides the delivery aspect Accenture has a very strong internal community with groups of interests as diverse as games, art, dance and all sorts of sports which I've personally enjoyed having participated in over the years.

What do we offer?
* Truly competitive salary terms, bonus schemes, pension, health insurance, employee stock purchase program etc.
* Flexible workload - you have control over your everyday life
* Hybrid ways of working depending on client needs
* Work in a team dedicated to complex problem solving within supply chain and operations, working in a range of industries and projects
* Work alongside leading Nordic and global subject matter experts

Interested? If you have any questions regarding the role or the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering department, please contact Michael Nabb, Cloud Advisory Senior Manager at michael.nabb@accenture.com. For questions regarding the position or the recruitment process please contact Lina Zangana, Lina.zangana@accenture.com.

About AccentureAccenture 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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