DevOps Engineer

Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Please Note: Due to the nature of client work you will be undertaking, you will need to be willing to go through a Security Clearance process as part of this role, which requires 5+ years UK address history at the point of application.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.

As a team:

• Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high quality services to a number of private and public sector clients.
• You will learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.
• If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.

As part of our global team, you will be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will learn:

• How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
• How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world.
• The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
• How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Work as part of a DevOps team to deliver environments and tools to support the development and testing of features by Scrum teams.
• Automate the provisioning of serverless integrations between different systems using their APIs.
• Setup and configure tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Smartbear, SonarCube and performance/security/resilience testing tools.
• Create automated processes for development teams to apply continuous integration and continuous testing approaches.

Qualifications

The following skills and experience are required for this role:

• Experienced in concepts such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, including hands on implementation experience in one or more tool e.g. Gitlab, Jira, Codebuild, etc.
• Infrastructure as a code experience – Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Terraform, etc.
• Familiar with the approaches and tooling for automated software Quality Assurance.
• Experience using tools such as Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning, environment setup and software deployment.
• Experience implementing system monitoring and alerting using tools such as Cloudwatch, Appdynamics, Kibana, Splunk or Prometheus.
• Experience with one or more Public/Private cloud offerings and with Virtualisation Technologies.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, how to consume them and how to invoke / engage with them as part of DevOps pipelines and scripting.
• Working knowledge of Agile and Lean Software delivery methodologies.
• Experience in setup and administration of Linux based environments.
• Experience in at least 1 common scripting language eg. Python, Node.js, Typescript, Powershell, Bash.

Set yourself apart:

• Confident in leading teams and/or introducing DevOps to new projects.
• Experienced in defining and managing roadmaps for the implementation of DevOps in an enterprise IT organisation.
• Experienced in technical architecture i.e. the design and delivery of IT systems for a broad range of clients.
• Experienced in virtual network setup and/or Functional/Performance testing.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there may be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.