Cloud DevOps Engineer, Sr Analyst

Cloud DevOps Engineer, Sr Analyst

Accenture UK & Ireland

Location: Birmingham, UK

Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)

Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) 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.

Requirements

• Deep technical know‑how and hands‑on experience implementing integrated automation solutions using a broad range of DevOps toolsets.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform is preferred.
• Expertise with code repository management, code merge and quality checks, continuous integration, and automated deployment and management using Ansible, Jenkins, and Git. Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Chef, Maven, Ant, Ivy, and UrbanCode would be advantageous.
• Experience in DevSecOps, including secret management, tools integration to harden the baseline, and privilege management.
• Associate‑level cloud certification in Azure or AWS.
• Hands‑on experience in Azure and AWS cloud technologies, including compute, networking, storage, and security services.
• Expertise in designing and implementing continuous delivery and/or DevOps solutions across cloud‑native and hybrid environments.
• Experience with approaches and tooling for automated build, delivery, and release of software, ensuring reliability and repeatability.
• Ability to define and manage the roadmap for DevOps implementation in an established operational environment, aligning with business and technical goals.
• Strong knowledge in developing integrated toolset solutions within an enterprise‑wide environment, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and compliance.
• Working knowledge of IT Service Management (ITSM) practices and tools such as ServiceNow, with experience in incident, change, and problem management processes.
• Proficiency in Power BI, with the ability to build dashboards that visualise deployment metrics, cloud cost trends, incident volumes, and SLA performance, using DAX and Power Query for data modeling.
• On‑Call Support – Provide on‑call support outside of standard working hours as and when required to ensure continuity of service and timely resolution of critical issues.

Responsibilities

• Work on multiple projects as part of a wider cloud capability team.
• Get DevOps up and running by overseeing the execution of tools and processes in the DevOps toolchain, and promote the DevOps culture in our client organizations.
• Help customers with DevOps projects by providing them with technical, consultative, and delivery services.
• Serve as a trusted automation and tooling advisor for DevOps initiatives by providing clients with objective, practical, and relevant advice, identifying opportunities for optimisation.
• Work with the development teams to meet acceptance criteria, gathering and documenting the requirements. Help lead continuous integration, delivery, automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code efforts for multiple cloud service offerings.
• Where required setting up and managing the operation of project development and test environments as well as the software configuration management processes for the entire application development life cycle.
• Help client’s transition to DevOps by driving adoption of tools and practices, and by directing elements of the DevOps implementation.
• Resolve and elevate issues as necessary.
• Undertake necessary trainings and certifications on latest technologies.

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with Azure and/or AWS CLI and SDK tools.
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows server operating systems.
• Expertise in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell & Shell.
• Strong incident fault finding skills and experience.
• Familiarity with ITSM, Agile methodologies and tools eg Azure DevOps, ServiceNow.
• Good communication and problem‑solving skills.

Additional Skills (Set yourself apart)

• Expertise in deploying and managing a DevOps environment as per best practices.
• Ability to configure automation using cloud native services.
• Experience in extending on‑premises environment to cloud.
• Experience in migrating workloads to cloud.
• Experience in Azure/AWS PaaS.

At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 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 will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services we are known for.

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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.