Accenture is hiring: Hardware Test Automation and Engineering - 5527848 in San F

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:

1. Create software tools and services and or custom fit existing services to customer requirements. e.g - source of truth asset management system.
2. Perform network audits to evaluate: Capacity usage (BW, space, power, etc), unused devices.
3. Configure & deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from audits.
4. Use best practices to deploy scripts for alerting, monitoring (telemetry gathering), and modifying configuration. Write and maintain documentation for scripts written and deployed.
5. Drive Software release management, Test & Validation including Release life cycle management.
6. Deploy & operate networks in public cloud environments.
7. Development of test automation tooling/framework that can be used to interface and configure lab testbeds.
8. Deploy agents to monitor networks by using internal tools and enriching existing data.
9. Software expertise to develop code and or script to communicate with APIs, orchestration of test execution and data extraction.
10. Working with test engineers to develop scripts, tools, capabilities that will accelerate the execution of various test campaigns.
11. Work with test engineers during test campaigns to troubleshoot/debug, identify issues/fixes.
12. Create documentation of lab testbeds, block diagrams, network diagrams, system configuration, runbooks/procedures, output reports.
13. Configure & deploy dashboards to visualize KPIs from test data pipelines.
14. Support PoC to deploy new systems, workflows or testing alternatives.
15. Upgrade existing client tools like PPP, Basset with new category of HW devices e.g - chassis, systems, compute/network blade, asic, NIC.
16. Write test automation scripts using keysight/ixia framework and integrate that with client internal tooling.
17. Upgrade existing software and deployment packages to meet custom customer requirements and deploy to a fleet of lab devices.
18. Design, deploy and manage backend networking for HPC cluster using L3 routing protocols, congestion control mechanism WRED-ECN/PFC is required.

*Position requires onsite 5 days per week in Menlo Park, CA

Basic Qualifications:

1. Minimum 3 years experience in IP Networking/Routing & Switching (TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, BGP, EVPN/Vxlan) network certifications, such as CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIS, RHCSA or equivalent experience.
2. Minimum 3 years experience with 100G/400G Ethernet. Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols (BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE, VRRP).
3. Minimum 3 years experience with Linux based systems to be able to debug and root cause server issues from application issue to network issue.
4. Minimum 3 years experience with python scripting / ansible for scripting and automation.
5. Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with public cloud environments.
6. High School Diploma or GED.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
2. Analyzing tactical situations, troubleshooting, root causing systems and tools, and problem solving via tasks or larger cross functional projects.
3. Ability to “read code” as source documentation.
4. DevOps CI/CD mindset for automation and scale.
5. Subject matter expertise in IP Networking/Routing & Switching (TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, BGP, EVPN/Vxlan) network certifications, such as CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIS, RHCSA or equivalent experience.

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, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.

Role Location

California – $45.67/hour - $55.67/hour
Colorado – $45.67/hour - $55.67/hour
District of Columbia – $45.67/hour - $55.67/hour
Maryland – $45.67/hour - $55.67/hour
New York - $45.67/hour - $55.67/hour
Washington –$45.67/hour - $55.67/hour

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