Accenture
Platform Engineer - DevOps - Scotland
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Role: Platform Engineer
Locations: Glasgow/Edinburgh (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)
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.
About Accenture
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 Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, and Integrity.
About the 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.
We work with clients in every sector, from scale-ups through to national and international blue-chip names and public sector organisations. Our teams routinely work on products that are used by millions of people.
As part of our S&PE Engineering team, you’ll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.
What You’ll Do
In our team you will:
- Work hand-in-hand with our clients to build great digital products for them and for their customers.
- Need experienced, capable engineers who can both deploy their own mastery to get things done hands-on and successfully lead others in doing so.
- Experience lots of opportunities to work on new domains and new stacks.
- Apply great engineering to get great outcomes.
- Be a key advocate for thoughtful solutions that get the job done efficiently and with low complexity.
- Be essential contributors to our internal and regional engineering communities.
- Have 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.
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AI
- Expected to responsibly adopt AI-assisted engineering practices—such as GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, and similar tools—for code generation, testing, documentation, and analysis.
- Understand model limitations, protect client data, and improve delivery quality and speed through pragmatic automation.
SRE & Observability
- Bring a reliability mindset to delivery, designing services that are operable by default and measured through meaningful SLIs/SLOs.
- Help teams implement pragmatic observability—logging, metrics, and distributed tracing—with actionable alerting.
- Contribute to (or lead) incident response and post-incident reviews that drive learning and measurable improvements.
Job Qualifications
We are looking for experience in the following skills:
- Strong experience with the AWS cloud platform and core services.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (build, deployment, and operational support in production).
- Proven use of Infrastructure as Code, ideally with AWS CDK.
- Working knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Experience with the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) within Agile/DevOps teams.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and DevOps best practices.
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
- 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice
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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.
About Accenture
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 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises.
Visit us at www.accenture.com
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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.
Join Accenture
Bring your incredible skills and join our global team of innovators. We come together from different backgrounds across the world and work with the latest technologies to create value and growth for our clients. With us, you’ll continue to learn and grow so you can advance in your career. Your personal dreams and ambitions are just as important to us; that’s why we offer support any way we can—when you thrive, we all thrive.
Explore your next step at Accenture. Belong. Grow. Thrive. Join a great place to work for reinventors who drive meaningful change for our clients, communities, and the world.
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