Azure Engineer

As an Azure Engineer in Accenture Technology - Cloud First, you will play a pivotal role in driving our customers' cloud initiatives, leveraging Microsoft's Azure platform to design, build, migrate, and optimize scalable cloud solutions. Your expertise will be crucial in advancing our customers' cloud adoption strategies, ensuring security, and optimizing their infrastructure through effective use of Azure's vast toolset and frameworks. Join our team and contribute to shaping the future of our customers' cloud infrastructure, leveraging your expertise in Azure to drive innovation and excellence.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, system administrators, and project managers, to ensure seamless integration and operation of cloud services for our customers. Your ability to communicate effectively and mentor junior team members will be essential in fostering a collaborative and efficient working environment.

You will lead the implementation of the Cloud Adoption Framework for our customers, ensuring their processes align with best practices for cloud governance, security, and compliance. Your role will involve refining and enhancing our customers' DevOps processes, facilitating continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and automating infrastructure management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Bicep or Terraform.

Your in-depth understanding of cloud architecture and Azure's capabilities will be instrumental in designing, building, migrating, and optimizing workloads for robust landing zones and other cloud infrastructure components for our customers. You will utilize Azure DevOps tools and services to streamline project workflows and ensure the reliability and scalability of our customers' cloud environments.

Day-to-day tasks will include designing and building Azure projects from the ground up for our customers, managing their cloud resources, and ensuring optimal performance and security. You will also be responsible for migrating and optimizing workloads to Azure, troubleshooting and resolving issues related to cloud infrastructure, continuously improving our customers' cloud operations, and staying updated with the latest Azure developments and best practices.

With all our roles, there is some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders, and communities. As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.

Who we are

Through unmatched industry experience, leading technologies from our ecosystem partners and startups, and the largest delivery network in the world, we provide a powerful range of capabilities that can be tailored to our client’s most complex business needs. With over 100 innovation hubs deployed around the world, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale so they can outpace their peers. You will bring innovation, intelligence, and industry experience together with the newest technologies to help clients innovate at scale and transform their businesses.

Technology is one of five services that make up one Accenture – the others are Strategy & Consulting, Operations, Song and Industry X.

Qualification

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with Microsoft Azure
• Proven experience in designing, building, and migrating Azure projects.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture and cloud security principles.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep or Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and working in a DevOps environment.
• Fluency/good konwledge in Dutch mandatory

Bonus points:

• Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation.
• Knowledge of Generative AI (GenAI) and its applications.
• Understanding of data management and analytics in the cloud.
• Expertise in Azure DevOps (ADO).

What’s in it for you?

Accenture is a global company with a world-class brand and reputation. Our people are Change Makers, and to support them as an employer, we make five promises:

• Work with flexibility, in a culture based on trust
• Embrace a sustainable growth mindset
• Live a human-led culture of Inclusion & Diversity by caring deeply for all our people.
• Lead and transform our clients with technology
• Connect with our global network of 700.000 colleagues.

These promises are reflected through our excellent employee benefits, including:

• Flexible working hours (4x9) & work location, FlexMoment leave of absence program (50% paid leave of absence for 3 months) and FlexDay; a flexible day you can take off to celebrate what matters to you – from EidalFitr to a birthday.
• Paid leave: Parental leave, Partner leave for all non-birthing parents, Bereavement leave, and Gender affirmation leave.
• Paid transport (budget for electric bicycle or car, NS-Business card)
• Pension scheme, Accenture shares, annual bonus, collective health insurance scheme
• Social activities like Friday Drinks, sport events and parties

What we believe

Accenture is an equal opportunity employer. Our leaders are committed to building a better, stronger and more equitable company for future generations to create positive, long-lasting change. Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

Our position as partner to many of the world’s leading businesses, organizations and governments affords us both an extraordinary opportunity and a tremendous responsibility to make a difference. Sustainability is one of our greatest responsibilities, which we embed it into everything we do and for everyone we work with.

Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodation to enable your participation in the recruitment process. We will be happy to assist you.

Locations

• Amsterdam

Additional Information

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About Accenture

We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Every day, more than 775,000 of us help our stakeholders continuously reinvent. Together, we drive positive change and deliver value to our clients, partners, shareholders, communities, and each other.

We believe that delivering value requires innovation, and innovation thrives in an inclusive and diverse environment. We actively foster a workplace free from bias, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is respected and empowered to do their best work.

At Accenture, we see well-being holistically, supporting our people’s physical, mental, and financial health. We also provide opportunities to keep skills relevant through certifications, learning, and diverse work experiences. We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the World’s Best Workplaces™.

Join Accenture to work at the heart of change. Visit us at www.accenture.com.