Senior DevOps Engineer - Newcastle
Senior DevOps engineer at Accenture's Newcastle Advanced Technology Centre, building CI/CD environments, tooling and automation for private and public sector clients. Day-to-day spans GitLab/Jenkins pipelines, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK), Docker/Kubernetes, Linux administration, and scripting; BPSS/SC security clearance is required.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- BPSS and SC security clearance requiring 5 years continuous UK address history
- Experience with one or more public/private cloud offerings
- Hands-on CI/CD implementation experience (e.g. GitLab, Jenkins, CodeBuild)
- Infrastructure as code experience (e.g. CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform)
- Configuration management experience (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Container setup, hosting and orchestration experience (Docker, Docker Compose, 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 (Python, Node.js, TypeScript, PowerShell, Bash)
- Ability to mentor and develop junior developers
- Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Automated provisioning of serverless integrations between systems via APIs
Nice to have
- System monitoring and alerting with tools (e.g. CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace)
- Defining and managing roadmaps for DevOps implementation in an enterprise IT organisation
- DevSecOps practices including secrets management (e.g. HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Designing, building and maintaining scalable CI/CD pipelines for frequent, reliable deployments
- Cloud cost optimisation and resource right-sizing
- Security scanning in CI/CD with SAST and DAST
- Deployment strategies such as Blue/Green or Canary releases
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs and how to engage with them in DevOps pipelines and scripting
- Proven track record of analytical and creative thinking translating into technical solutions
- Evidence of debugging and resolving sophisticated technical issues
Full description
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)
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
As a 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.
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.
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.
In our team you will learn:
- How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
- How to 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.
- How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment.
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.