DevOps Engineer, Associate Manager - London

Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)

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)

Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement

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

The Role:

We are actively looking for a Principal DevOps Consultant to join our dynamic engineering team. In this crucial role, you will oversee and mentor a team of up to five DevOps engineers while leading and development projects. Your responsibilities might include defining and implementing DevOps strategies and best practices to optimise our clients processes and systems, leading and managing diverse DevOps and development projects, contributing to writing, reviewing code and a proven track record in managing large-scale data environments and expertise in Kafka and Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate will have substantial experience handling Kafka setups with billions of messages and thousands of topics, demonstrating a deep understanding of its architecture and optimization techniques. Additionally, expertise in Kubernetes is required, with the ability to manage and scale clusters efficiently, involving large numbers of pods, and a strong command of Docker and other containerization technologies.

You will need to be able to build rapport with clients, provide expert advice, design and develop solutions as well as manage or implement cloud infrastructure and data platforms ensuring scalability and reliability. Additionally, you must show experience with the development and implementation of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes to streamline development processes.

Key responsibilities in this role include:

• Define and implement DevOps strategies and best practices to optimise processes and systems
• Perform line management duties to a team of up to 5 engineers
• Be involved in setting DevOps department standards and technical direction, creating training materials and running “brown bag” training sessions for the wider team
• Support and Train junior colleagues under your line management, within your projects, and the wider DevOps department
• Lead and manage diverse DevOps and development projects, ensuring timely and successful delivery
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code technical solutions (as an example, via kube/helm & terraform)
• Contribute to writing and reviewing code according to project needs and designs
• Apply DevOps best practices of automation, TDD and tooling to CI/CD pipelines
• Design, Develop and manage cloud infrastructure and data platforms to ensure scalability and reliability
• Work as in a cross-discipline agile development team (managed via Scrum Agile processes)