Cloud engineer

Do you possess a deep understanding of how business change, new technologies and advanced cloud and infrastructure paradigms impact and transform the IT landscape?

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering department in Sweden is looking for a Cloud Engineer who will use knowledge and skills to challenge your teammates and leaders to innovate on extensive existing knowledge and expertise to provide sustainable disrupting solutions, exceeding industry standards, to our clients.

Infrastructure Engineering – your new department You will join more than 20 highly skilled and equally motivated colleagues in Sweden. We are part of Accenture Technology which consists of 400+ colleagues and just like the rest of Accenture, we work across industries. We simply assemble the best possible team for any given project. Our skills cover all kinds of technologies as well as methodologies and this combination makes us a wanted resource and valued contributor across all projects in Accenture. Private, public, small, big or even enormous. Doesn’t matter. We are ready, and we can be so because we foster a positive environment built on knowledge sharing, cooperation, and on-going development.

As a Cloud Expert/Engineer, you will be: Using your knowledge and skills to challenge your teammates and leaders to innovate on extensive existing knowledge and expertise to provide sustainable disrupting solutions, exceeding industry standards, to our clients. This could take the form of:

Client workshops where we share our knowledge, plan and/or design solutions for our clients 

Designing, provisioning and/or securing cloud architectures for global and local business critical systems for our clients 

Bringing your skills to our clients by orchestrating and automating environments for a proof-of-concept demo or even getting ready for a production deployment 

Engaging in architecture or other training as a student or faculty  In all of this, you can rest assured that Accenture have high ethical standards which make you proud to work for an organization like this which also cares first and foremost for our people.

We believe: You are passionate about technology and its adoption. You have a strong background in IT infrastructure and are, or want to become, an expert within on-prem, cloud and hybrid cloud solutions, working with the major cloud providers such as Microsoft, AWS, Google and others. 

You are a team player with a focus on delivery with excellent communication and people skills.

Here’s what you need:

An academic degree, preferably at Master’s level or equivalent experience

2-5 years’ experience working with one or more cloud providers’ technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or on-prem technologies 

Experience as a developer and/or technical architect

Experience with infrastructure and thinks about automation in all stages of the construction and deployment processes

Worked according to agile methods, DevOps and principles from Lean

The ability to articulate your knowledge to not only other technical people, but also to non-technical business focused people and help them understand what the technology would mean to them and why they should care 

An understanding of Cloud Native development practices  

Experience working with infrastructure transformation and/or cloud transformation 

Experience with cloud ecosystems, from transforming requirements into design all the way down to operations 

Excellent communication and people skills 

Fluency in Swedish and English is must, both spoken and written

Bonus points if you have knowledge/experience in:

Microservice architecture 

Design and scaling of IT systems 

CI/CD, automation and security 

Container platforms such as OpenShift, Google Anthos, Azure Kubernetes service, VMware Tanzu 

Integration architecture and integration/event solutions such as Cloud Suppliers Integration Services, Kafka, JBoss Fuse, Solace, Mule ESB 

API and Event driven architecture 

Technical architecture-standards, security and frameworks 

Infra as a code, security controls, monitoring tools, DevOps-tools and services such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Ant, Maven, Chef, Docker, Git, Jenkins 

Consulting or client service delivery

How’s it like working for Accenture?  To give you a clearer impression of who we are and what we're looking for, we've asked Michael Nabb to tell us a bit about a career at Accenture:

I’ve been with the firm for more than seveteen years and what has been consistent throughout those years has been a close collaboration with clients to help them achieve their goals. I’ve helped some of the largest businesses in the Nordics adapt to a changing world by introducing new technologies or improving the usage of existing ones. I look back and feel proud about playing an important part in the success of our clients.

Besides the delivery aspect Accenture has a very strong internal community with groups of interests as diverse as games, art, dance and all sorts of sports which I’ve personally enjoyed having participated in over the years.

What do we offer?

Truly competitive salary terms, bonus schemes, pension, health insurance, employee stock purchase program etc.

Flexible workload – you have control over your everyday life

Hybrid ways of working depending on client needs

Work in a team dedicated to complex problem solving within supply chain and operations, working in a range of industries and projects

Work alongside leading Nordic and global subject matter experts

Interested? If you have any questions regarding the role or the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering department, please contact Michael Nabb, Cloud Advisory Senior Manager at [email protected]. For questions regarding the position or the recruitment process please contact Lina Zangana, [email protected].

Summer Recruitment Update

Please note that due to the summer holiday period, there will be a temporary pause in our recruitment process. We will resume reviewing applications and get back to candidates during August/September.

Thank you for your patience, and we wish you a wonderful summer!