S&C GN - TS&T – Digital Foundations - Cloud - Infrastructure - Senior Manager

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# **About Accenture** Accenture 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.com # **About Global Network** Accenture 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. For more information visit www.accenture.com/capabilitynetwork ## **Global Network Videos** **Video Title** **External Link** Accenture Global Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-92pvOH1d\\_k Accenture in One Word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Fo8uNWZ-0 MBA Careers: What makes Accenture different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bg4u5Sczm8 Accenture Inclusion & The Power of Diversity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g88Ju6nkcg # **Hybrid Cloud Architect — Senior Manager** **Practice Overview** **Skill / Operating Group** Technology Consulting — Cloud Infrastructure & Ecosystem Advisory **Level** Senior Manager **Location** Gurugram / Mumbai / Bangalore / Pune / Kolkata **Travel** Expected travel could be anywhere between 0–100% **Why Technology Consulting** The Technology Consulting business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation. 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 & Responsibilities** **Overview** Own and lead large-scale hybrid and multi-cloud architecture advisory programs for enterprise clients — setting the overall hybrid architecture vision, platform strategy, and governance approach across on-premises, colocation, and public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) environments. Serve as the executive trusted advisor to CTO, CIO, and senior technology leaders on hybrid cloud strategy, platform choices (VMware Cloud Foundation vs Nutanix vs hyperscaler-managed), and workload placement decisions. Define the target-state hybrid architecture including private cloud platform design, hyperscaler extension patterns, and unified governance frameworks. Shape the hybrid security architecture stance for client engagements — setting Zero Trust principles across the full hybrid estate, defining hybrid IAM and identity federation models (Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta), network segmentation strategy spanning SD-WAN, ZTNA, and dedicated interconnects, and encryption frameworks that apply consistently across on-premises and cloud environments. Define the multi-cloud FinOps strategy for client hybrid estates — setting financial governance models that span on-premises infrastructure lifecycle costs and cloud consumption, using tooling such as VMware CloudHealth and Apptio Cloudability alongside hyperscaler-native billing platforms. Own the investment decision framework for platform refresh, cloud migration, and hybrid extension choices. Set the IaC and platform engineering standards across the hybrid estate — defining governance and tooling choices (Terraform, Ansible, vRealize Automation, Nutanix Calm), and architectural patterns that work consistently across VMware, Nutanix, and hyperscaler environments. Own the observability architecture strategy, defining unified monitoring frameworks using Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, and VMware Aria Operat