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Castro City, Mountain View, CA
Senior level
Castro City, Mountain View, CA
Senior level
Develop and automate test tooling for network operations, conduct audits, configure alerts, support software lifecycle management, and manage public cloud environments.
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Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed-duration project-based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists.

As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges.

You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world-class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Create software tools and services and or custom fit existing services to customer requirements. e.g - source of truth asset management system.

  • Perform network audits to evaluate: Capacity usage (BW, space, power, etc), unused devices.

  • Configure and deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from audits.

  • Use best practices to deploy scripts for alerting, monitoring (telemetry gathering), and modifying configuration. Write and maintain documentation for scripts written and deployed.

  • Drive Software release management, Test and Validation including Release life cycle management.

  • Deploy and operate networks in public cloud environments.

  • Development of test automation tooling/framework that can be used to interface and configure lab testbeds.

  • Deploy agents to monitor networks by using internal tools and enriching existing data.

  • Software expertise to develop code and or script to communicate with APIs, orchestration of test execution and data extraction.

  • Working with test engineers to develop scripts, tools, capabilities that will accelerate the execution of various test campaigns.

  • Work with test engineers during test campaigns to troubleshoot/debug, identify issues/fixes.

  • Create documentation of lab testbeds, block diagrams, network diagrams, system configuration, runbooks/procedures, output reports.

  • Configure and deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from test data pipelines.

  • Support PoC to deploy new systems, workflows or testing alternatives.

  • Upgrade existing client tools like PPP, Basset with new category of HW devices e.g - chassis, systems, compute/network blade, asic, NIC.

  • Write test automation scripts using keysight/ixia framework and integrate that with client internal tooling.

  • Upgrade existing software and deployment packages to meet custom customer requirements and deploy to a fleet of lab devices.

  • Design, deploy and manage backend networking for HPC cluster using L3 routing protocols, congestion control mechanism WRED-ECN/PFC is required

* Onsite in Menlo Park 80 percent weekly.

Basic Qualifications:
  • Minimum 5 years of work experience as a subject matter with expertise in IP Networking/Routing and Switching (TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, BGP, EVPN/Vxlan) network certifications, such as CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIS, RHCSA or equivalent experience

  • Minimum 3 years experience with 100G/400G Ethernet, configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols (BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE, VRRP)

  • Minimum 3 years experience analyzing tactical situations, troubleshooting, root causing systems and tools, and problem solving via tasks or larger cross functional projects

  • Minimum 3 years experience of release life cycle management experience with software development and CI/CD

  • Minimum 3 years experience working in a multi-vendor environment with hands-on experience with networking hardware

  • Minimum 3 years experience of reasonable expertise with scripting and automation languages like python, bash, thrift, protobuf, golang

  • Minimum 3 years experience with expertise with Linux based systems to be able to debug and root cause server issues from application issue to network issue

  • Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with public cloud environments

  • Minimum 3 years experience with python scripting / ansible for scripting and automation

  • Minimum 3 years experience in “read code” as source documentation

  • Minimum 3 years experience of DevOps CI/CD mindset for automation and scale

  • High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Release life cycle management experience with software development and CI/CD

  • Experience working in a multi-vendor environment with hands-on experience with networking hardware

  • Reasonable expertise with scripting and automation languages like python, bash, thrift, protobuf, golang

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York or Washington as set forth below.

We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location                                Hourly Salary Range

California                              $67.40/hour - $77.40/hour

Colorado                               $67.40/hour - $77.40/hour 

District of Columbia            $67.40/hour - $77.40/hour

Illinois                                    $67.40/hour - $77.40/hour

Minnesota                             $67.40/hour - $77.40/hour

Maryland                               $67.40/hour - $77.40/hour

New York                               $67.40/hour - $77.40/hour

Washington                           $67.40/hour - $77.40/hour

 

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Top Skills

100G Ethernet
400G Ethernet
Ansible
Bash
Bgp
Evpn
Go
Ip Networking
Ipv4
Ipv6
Linux
Protobuf
Python
Routing
Switching
Tcp/Ip
Thrift
Vxlan

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