Senior Network Consultant

Accenture

Location: Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

Job Type: Full time

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About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 738,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Learn more about how we are measuring value in all directions with Accenture's 360 degree Value Integrated Reporting.

The Role and Team

We are the Infrastructure Engineering Technology team, and we see ourselves as leaders in the IT advisory space providing strategy and implementation services to world-class enterprises around the globe. In the past we have successfully managed several Datacentre and Cloud Migration projects.

Role Description:

Design and implementation of enterprise networks, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), cloud, SDN, security and wireless technologies.

Key responsibilities:

  • Work on infrastructure transformation projects involving networking and change management.

  • Ability to translate business requirements in to high level technical requirement in context of technology and customer trends.

  • Lead a project in design and implementation using skills in routing, switching, firewall, wireless and data centre technologies (e.g. - Cisco Nexus, ACI, NSX)

  • Develop technical design documentation such as high-level design, low level design, bill of material (BoM), configuration templates.

  • Develop network testing strategy, Test plans and testing execution.

  • Build cut-over/implementation plan in compliance with client's change management process.

  • Support troubleshooting efforts during implementation and post go-live support.

  • Utilise communication and documentations skills in client facing and vendor management activities.

  • Ability to meet milestones with strong focus on quality.

  • Willingness to travel with flexibility to work in global time zone.

Professional Skill Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience in Design and Implementation using skills in routing, switching, wireless and other data centre technologies such as Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI, VMware NSX.

  • Design and implementation of NexGen firewalls from leading vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto

  • Design and implementation of SD-WAN and cloud connectivity solution for Azure, AWS, Google cloud platform.

  • Exposure to multi-vendor technologies in enterprise network with experience to design and implement them.

  • Strong documentation and presentation skills with a focus on quality.

  • Project management and ITIL knowledge with focus on change management

You’ve got this!