Network Architect

About Accenture 

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Role Description:

Responsible for designing enterprise networks, including local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), cloud, SDN and security technologies. Interpret and translate client requirements into a solution that can be delivered from a standard set of offerings.

Key responsibilities:

• Operate as a lead network architect for network and cloud transformation opportunities.

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

• Review the RFPs and RFIs and prepare a high-quality response with attention to detail.

• Business case development and crafting the transformation roadmap.

• Engage with client’s senior executives in network and security domain to develop the network and security architecture for a large enterprise.

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

• Act as technical authority, actively participate in planning and execution of implementations, migrations.

• Maintains knowledge of evolving technology trends and apply those to develop innovative solutions approaches to deliver value for our clients.

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

Professional Skill Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in enterprise network architecture on a large infrastructure transformation project involving enterprise networking, data centre/cloud.  

• 10+ years of experience in design and implementation using skills in routing, switching and other data centre technologies such as cisco nexus, 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.

• Design and implementation of SASE solution from Zscaler, Cisco or Palo Alto.

• Strong 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.

Certifications (not all are required):

• CCNP, CCDP, CCIE (a plus), AWS, Azure, ITIL, TOGAF