Platform Engineering Manager - DevOps
A Level 7 engineering manager role at Accenture's S&PE consulting unit, leading DevOps/platform client engagements: building cloud-native backend services, driving SRE/observability practices, and adopting AI-assisted engineering. Requires fluency in Java, .NET/C#, Python or TypeScript, plus AWS/Azure experience and UK security clearance.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance with 5 years continuous UK address history
- Willingness to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders who expect to see outcomes
- Several years building backend services across integration paradigms (synchronous API-driven, message-driven, event-driven)
- Fluency in at least one of: Java, .NET/C#, Python, TypeScript
- Recent experience building, deploying, and running cloud-native applications on AWS and/or Azure
- Working in DevOps teams with industry-standard practices
- Producing repeatable, automated tests for your own work
- Collaborating in an egoless way, regardless of level or role
- Reliability-first mindset: systems operable by default and measured through meaningful SLIs and SLOs
- Pragmatic observability (logging, metrics, distributed tracing) with actionable alerting; contributing to incident response and blameless post-incident reviews
- Hands-on experience with GenAI, or evidence of actively pursuing personal GenAI projects outside work
- Comfort with change and learning new domains and stacks
- Using modern AI-assisted engineering practices responsibly and helping teams adopt them safely
Nice to have
- Front-end experience such as React
Full description
Location: Regional UK (TBA) - (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis)
Level: 7
Salary: Competitive salary and package (depending on experience)
Security clearance
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.
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
Accenture S&PE 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. They range 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.
We offer an exciting career working in a vibrant environment, with access to training and a global network of experts. 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
We typically work hand-in-hand with our clients to build great digital products for them and for their customers. To do this, we need experienced, capable engineers who can both deploy their own mastery to get things done hands-on and successfully lead others in doing so. The nature of our work varies from client to client so there will be lots of opportunities to experience new domains and new stacks.
The role of Principal Software Engineer often involves leading client engagements holistically—people, delivery, quality, and commercials. As well as ensuring we’re delivering great engineering, you’ll keep the big picture in mind and help our clients make the best use of a consultancy partner to reach their goals sooner.