Windows Cloud Engineer - Associate Manager

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Analyze and understand client’s needs and expectations, as well as alternative architectures and trends

Interview clients' technical teams to gather relevant information to facilitate architectural requirements definitions

Assist in small to medium-scale design projects, interfacing with project managers

Establish, explain, and validate the solution testing criteria for projects

Design services in accordance with Accenture standards and vendor best practices

Maintain and develop scripting to help automate and monitor clients (e.g. Cloud Watch, OEM, Splunk, New Relic)

Remain current on vendor best practices as it relates to the interlinking of technologies (Windows, AWS Cloud, Azure Cloud, OCI Cloud)

Provide expertise on system performance tuning, capacity planning, and maintenance patching and new version installation

Develop and maintain standard templates for repeatable build-outs

Work with vendors and drive them to help us meet our service level obligations

Plan and implement small to medium-scale changes on production systems

Analyze and assess the impact and risk of small to medium-risk changes on production systems

Install, configure, patch and maintain appropriate technologies (e.g. servers/databases/network/storage)

Design and assist small to medium-scale disaster recovery tests

Create and review technical system recovery plans

Demonstrate commitment to Service Excellence

This role will require 2-3 days per week at the local office.The preferred hiring locations for this role are Cincinnati, OH and Tampa, FL, but may consider qualified applicants in Atlanta/GA, Austin/TX, Dallas/TX, Columbus/OH, Berwyn/PA, Nashville/TN.Here’s what you need:

Minimum of 5 years Cloud administration experience (AWS/Azure/OCI/Google)

Minimum of 10 years of Windows administration experience working on an enterprise-level operations team

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years’ work experience). If Associate’s degree, must have an equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.

Bonus Points if you have:

Strong Windows OS administration skillset

Strong PowerShell Scripting experience

Proven ability to work independently and as a team member

Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Good organizational, multitasking, and time management skills

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