Senior Platform Engineer - DevOps

Location: Manchester (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis)

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

What you will do

We typically work hand‑in‑hand with our clients to build great digital products for them and for their customers. To do this, we need experienced, capable engineers who can both deploy their own mastery to get things done hands‑on and successfully lead others in doing so. The nature of our work varies from client to client so there will be lots of opportunities to experience new domains and new stacks. Our team is dedicated to applying great engineering to get great outcomes. Our engineers stand out by keeping one eye on value at all times, and by proposing thoughtful solutions that get the job done efficiently and with low complexity. You’d be a key advocate for this approach within a team. Beyond client work, our engineers are essential contributors to our internal and regional engineering communities. There’s loads of scope to get involved and help shape conversations around tech you’re interested in, share your knowledge and experience, and learn from colleagues working in very diverse problem spaces.

Responsibilities

• Responsible adoption of AI‑assisted engineering practices—GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, and similar tools—for code generation, testing, documentation, and analysis, while understanding model limitations, protecting client data, and improving delivery quality and speed through pragmatic automation.
• Bring a reliability mindset to delivery, designing services that are operable by default and measured through meaningful SLI/SLOs.
• Help teams implement pragmatic observability—logging, metrics, and distributed tracing—with actionable alerting, and contribute to (or lead) incident response and post‑incident reviews that drive learning and measurable improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (preferably AWS/Azure) and platform core services.
• Strong hands‑on experience in DevSecOps engineering, supporting cloud‑native platforms at scale.
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code, with solid hands‑on usage of Terraform across non‑prod and prod environments.
• Good understanding and practical application of SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resilience, reliability).
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools, particularly Dynatrace or similar tools, including alerting, dashboards, and root‑cause analysis.
• Exposure to AIOps practices, leveraging automation and intelligence for proactive issue detection and incident reduction.
• Experience supporting production platforms, including incident management, problem management, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers, influence technical standards, and act as a technical point of escalation.

Benefits

Competitive basic salary and extensive benefits package including 25 days vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.