About the role

The Infrastructure Consulting team designs, installs and supports IT systems for Avanade clients. The scope and expertise of this team’s work spans security, availability, operating system, business applications, computing, storage, database, networking and operations, typically in Microsoft or multi-vendor environments.

As an Infrastructure Consulting Analyst, you will help design, implement and support such systems and technologies. You will play a vital role in delivering top-quality IT systems that solve our clients’ business problems to help them better service their clients and be more competitive.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Help define and establish IT operations, processes, procedures and toolsets to manage and maintain client solutions
• Develop, modify and improve client infrastructure solutions
• Support infrastructure deployment efforts
• Support systems integration testing, component integration testing and user acceptance testing
• Support change management efforts as directed by senior team members and change specialists.

About you

Although part of a team, you are comfortable working on your own. You will be an individual contributor who is adept at analyzing problems, performing assigned tasks, and meeting deadlines without close supervision. Your expertise and conscientiousness will be crucial in ensuring that Avanade’s IT systems are world class and operate at peak efficiency.

• You will likely have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, management information systems, information technology or a similar field.
• We would like to see you attain your Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate certification in Windows Server 2012 and your Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert certification in Server Infrastructure within two years of your hire date.

Your technical skills likely include:

• Expertise in several of these areas: infrastructure solutions (especially Microsoft); hardware/software installation, virtualization and configuration; web server support; cloud technologies; networking; data center operations; platform migration; enterprise directories;
• Microsoft Exchange; Microsoft Internet Information Server; Windows Server; Microsoft SQL Server; Microsoft SharePoint
• Knowledge in operations management, systems security, testing, databases and mobility considerations
• Working knowledge of Windows PowerShell and scripting.
• Prior project or consulting work
• Ability to interact with external stakeholders
• Good communications and presentations skills
• Solid written and spoken English skills.
• Some experience in systems engineering and/or infrastructure work is ideal, including relevant training and education.

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