DevOps Engineer

Location: Newcastle Upon- Tyne, Manchester, Edinburgh

Salary: £25,000 - £56,760

Career Level:  Accenture will be recruiting at the following levels: Analyst, Senior Analyst, Consultant, Associate Manager.

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.

As a team:

Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations 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.

Accenture Technology powers our clients to achieve high performance. We combine business and industry insights with innovative technology to drive growth for our clients. We extend our technology and business capabilities through a powerful alliance ecosystem of market leaders and innovators to provide our clients the best specialised skills and tailored solutions.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways

In our team you will learn:

• Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high quality services to a number of private and public sector clients.
• You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Work as part of a DevOps team to deliver environments and tools to support the development and testing of features by Scrum teams.
• Automate the provisioning of platforms such as Apigee, Oracle, CloudPak for Integration and OpenShift with a different configuration for different environments.
• Setup and configure tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarCube and performance/security/resilience testing tools.
• Create automated processes for development teams to apply continuous integration and continuous testing approaches.

Qualifications

We are looking for experience in all or some of the following skills:

• The use of Public/Private cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP preferred) – certification desirable but not essential
• Provisioning of environments and management of IAAS using Terraform/Cloud Provider templates
• Configuration management / automated environment provisioning (Ansible preferred)
• Implementation of Continuous Integration/Delivery concepts and tooling (Jenkins, Nexus, Maven etc)
• Administration of source code repositories (Git, Bitbucket etc)
• The design and implementation of continuous integration/delivery practices
• Approaches and tooling for automated build, delivery and release of software
• Approaches and tooling for automated software assurance and quality assurance
• Familiar with Waterfall, Agile and Lean Software delivery methodologies
• Containerised deployment of applications and container management (Docker, Swarm, K8s)
• Administration of modern operating systems (Linux, Windows)
• Implementation and configuration of Monitoring (Dynatrace, Elk, Splunk)
• Experience of the implementation of DevOps practices in an enterprise IT organisation
• Implementation of networking (hardware or virtual)
• Triage of performance and operational issues

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, gym subsidy, 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 to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 514,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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.