S&C GN - TS&T – Digital Foundations - Cloud - Azure - Consultant

About AccentureAccenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world's largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 750K people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.comAbout Global NetworkAccenture Strategy shapes our clients' future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, every business is a digital business. Digital is changing the way organisations engage with their employees, business partners, customers, and communities — how they manufacture and deliver products and services, and how they run their organisations. This is our unique differentiator. We seek people who recognise and understand the impact that digital and technology have on every industry and every sector, and share our passion to shape unique strategies that allow our clients to succeed in this environment.To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Global Network — a distributed management consulting organisation that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Approximately 10,000 consultants are part of this rapidly expanding network, providing specialised and strategic industry and functional consulting expertise from key locations around the world. Our Global Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. 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As technology rapidly evolves, it is more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client's toughest business problems. Specialise in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organisations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Engineering.Transforming Businesses: Developing customised, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.Principal Duties & ResponsibilitiesOverviewSupport Azure cloud architecture workstreams within advisory and transformation engagements — contributing to architecture assessments, reference architecture documentation, and design analysis under the guidance of senior architects. Develop current-state assessments of client Azure environments covering compute (Virtual Machines, AKS, Azure Functions), storage (Blob, Files, NetApp), networking (Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, Azure Virtual WAN), databases (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse), and Azure security and governance configurations.Contribute to cloud security architecture workstreams — researching Azure security patterns, documenting Entra ID configurations, mapping network segmentation designs using Azure Firewall and NSGs, and supporting the development of Zero Trust architecture recommendations.Support FinOps analysis and reporting — collecting and analysing Azure cost data using Cost Management and Advisor, identifying Reservation and rightsizing opportunities, modelling Azure Hybrid Benefit scenarios, and contributing to cost optimisation roadmap documentation.Support IaC and platform engineering workstreams — documenting infrastructure patterns, researching Bicep, ARM, and Terraform standards, and contributing to governance framework documentation. Support the development of observability architecture recommendations using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and platforms such as Datadog and Dynatrace.Support proposal and solutioning efforts by contributing architecture assessments, design patterns, and reference architectures. Contribute to practice asset development and knowledge management under senior guidance.