IT & Software

Platform Engineering Specialist - DevOps

Accenture

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role, you will help deliver high-value digital products for clients by applying engineering excellence and scalable practices. You will work closely with cross-functional teams across domains, shaping solutions that balance speed with reliability. You’ll lead peers on hands-on delivery while contributing to internal engineering communities and adopting AI-assisted methods responsibly. The work spans multiple stacks and client contexts, offering opportunities to impact large-scale outcomes and continuously improve delivery. This is a chance to grow within a global network and shape modern engineering practices.

Pay / Benefits
  • 25 days’ holiday per year
  • private medical insurance
  • three extra days’ leave per year for charitable work
  • extensive benefits package
  • flexibility and mobility for client-site work
Responsibilities
  • Build, deploy and run backend services across integration paradigms (synchronous API-driven, message-driven, event-driven)
  • Lead and collaborate with others to deliver solutions efficiently and with low complexity
  • Contribute to internal and regional engineering communities and share knowledge
  • Apply AI-assisted engineering practices responsibly to improve quality and speed
  • Design services with operability in mind and support observability through logging, metrics, and tracing
  • Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews to drive learning and improvements
  • Adapt to different technology stacks and client contexts to achieve outcomes
  • Foster a collaborative, egoless team culture and value delivery for clients
Key requirements
  • Years of experience building backend services across integration paradigms
  • Fluency in Java, React, TypeScript or Python
  • Experience building, deploying and running cloud-native applications on AWS and/or Azure
  • Experience in DevOps teams and automated testing
  • Strong collaborative mindset and ability to work with others across roles
  • Hands-on experience with GenAI or active personal GenAI projects
  • Reliability-focused approach to service delivery with measurable SLIs/SLOs
  • Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and domains
  • egoless collaboration
  • team-oriented problem solving
  • curiosity and learning mindset
  • Backend development
  • API-driven architectures
  • Message/event-driven architectures

Reference: WJ-747_31187849

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