Accenture UK & Ireland
Senior DevOps Engineer - Newcastle
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Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Newcastle Upon-Tyne
Please Note: 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)
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 of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.
“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
About the Team:
Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high-quality services to several private and public sector clients.
As a team member, you'll learn, grow, and advance in an innovative culture that thrives with shared success, diverse ways of thinking, and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.
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If you’re looking for an exciting 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 distributed team, you'll be working with groundbreaking technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.
What you will learn:
- How to provide solutions to real-world problems across a variety of industries.
- How to help transform leading organizations 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.
Role Responsibilities:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:
- Work as part of a DevOps team in a technical leadership role to deliver environments and tools to support the development and testing of features by Accenture and Client Teams.
- Setup and configure tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, SonarQube, and performance/security/resilience testing tools.
- Create automated processes for development teams to apply continuous integration and continuous testing approaches.
- Automate the provisioning of serverless integrations between different systems using their APIs.
- Experience with one or more Public/Private cloud offerings.
- Experienced in concepts such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, including hands-on implementation experience in one or more tools including automated software Quality Assurance (e.g. Gitlab, Jenkins, Codebuild).
- Infrastructure as a code experience (e.g. CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform).
- Configuration management experience (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
- Experience in container setup, hosting, and orchestration tools such as Docker, Docker Compose, RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes.
- 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 (e.g. Python, Node.js, Typescript, PowerShell, Bash).
- Ability to mentor and develop junior developers.
- Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills.
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Set Yourself Apart:
- Experience implementing system monitoring and alerting using tools (e.g. CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace).
- Experienced in defining and managing roadmaps for the implementation of DevOps in an enterprise IT organization.
- Experience with DevSecOps practices, including Secrets management (e.g. HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).
- Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting frequent, reliable deployments.
- Drive cloud cost optimization and resource right-sizing.
- Experience implementing security scanning in CI/CD with SAST and DAST.
- Experience with deployment strategies such as Blue/Green or Canary Releases.
- Proven track record of applying analytical and creative thought that translate into technical solutions.
- Evidence of debugging and resolving sophisticated technical issues.
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs, how to consume them, and how to invoke/engage with them as part of DevOps pipelines and scripting.
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