Senior Platform Engineer - DevOps

Role: Senior Platform Engineer

Locations: 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)

Please note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance, which requires 5 years’ continuous 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. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.

As a team:

Accenture S&PE Engineering is over 1,000 people strong and provides end-to-end product engineering solutions which deliver tangible value, fast. We bring together an obsession for technical excellence with agility and scale, to help clients move from project to product at speed. Our teams routinely work on products that are used by millions of people. We offer an exciting career working in a vibrant environment, with access to training and a global network of experts.

In our team you will:

• Work hand-in-hand with our clients to build great digital products.
• Deploy your own mastery to get things done hands-on and successfully lead others.
• Experience new domains and new stacks.
• Apply great engineering to get great outcomes.
• Contribute to our internal and regional engineering communities.

AI:

You’ll be expected to responsibly adopt AI‑assisted engineering practices—such as GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, and similar tools—for code generation, testing, documentation, and analysis.

SRE & Observability:

You’ll bring a reliability mindset to delivery, designing services that are operable by default and measured through meaningful SLIs/SLOs.

Job 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).
• 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.

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 will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners.

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.

Closing Date for Applications: 31/08/2026

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.