Project Role: AI Infrastructure Architect

Project Role Description: Architect and build custom Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure/hardware solutions. Optimize AI infrastructure/hardware performance, power consumption, cost and scalability of computational stack. Advise on AI infrastructure technology and vendor evaluation, selection and full stack integration.

Must have skills: Microsoft Azure Architecture

Good to have skills: NA

Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education

Summary:

As an AI Infrastructure Architect, you will engage in the design and construction of tailored Artificial Intelligence infrastructure and hardware solutions. Your typical day will involve optimizing the performance, power consumption, cost, and scalability of the computational stack. You will also provide expert advice on AI infrastructure technology, including vendor evaluation and selection, ensuring seamless full-stack integration to meet organizational needs.

Infrastructure Architecture & Design:

• Design cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure with scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Define standards for compute(Including Kubernetes), storage, networking, and orchestration layers.
• Automation & Orchestration
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management of infrastructure resources.
• Observability & Reliability
• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for proactive issue detection.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance.
• Security & Compliance
• Apply defense-in-depth principles (RBAC, IAM, encryption, network segmentation).
• Cost & Resource Management
• Optimize infrastructure spend through rightsizing and reserved instances.
• Monitor usage and enforce quotas.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Expected to be an SME.
• Collaborate and manage the team to perform.
• Responsible for team decisions.
• Engage with multiple teams and contribute on key decisions.
• Provide solutions to problems for their immediate team and across multiple teams.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions to enhance team capabilities.
• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to inform strategic decisions.

Professional & Technical Skills:

• Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Azure Architecture.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and services.
• Strong understanding of AI infrastructure components and their integration.
• Familiarity with performance optimization techniques for AI workloads.
• Knowledge of cost management strategies in cloud environments.
• Strong expertise in ONE OF cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud).
• Proficiency in IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible) & Native CLI's like AZCLI, GCPCloud, AWSCLI.
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Knowledge of observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Open Telemetry).
• Familiarity with security frameworks and zero-trust architectures.
• Familiarity with Enterprise networking, storage, and virtualization.

Additional Information:

• The candidate should have minimum 12 years of experience in Microsoft Azure Architecture.
• This position is based at our Bengaluru office.
• A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Visit us at www.accenture.com

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.