Job Description
Role: Platform Engineer
Locations: Glasgow / Edinburgh (may require travel to client sites across the UK)
Salary: Competitive salary and package (dependent on experience)
Background Check: Any offer subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance, which requires 5 years of continuous UK address history at the point of application.
Responsibilities
In our team you will work hand‑in‑hand with clients to build digital products, deploying mastery and leading others. You will act as a key advocate for efficient solutions, contributing to client work and to internal engineering communities.
AI: You’ll adopt AI‑assisted engineering practices—such as GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo—for code generation, testing, documentation, and analysis, while understanding model limitations, protecting client data, and improving delivery quality and speed through pragmatic automation.
SRE & Observability: Bring a reliability mindset to delivery, design services operable by default, measure through SLIs/SLOs, implement observability (logging, metrics, distributed tracing), and contribute to or lead incident response and post‑incident reviews for learning and improvement.
Job Qualifications
* AWS cloud platform experience and core services.
* Hands‑on Kubernetes (build, deploy, operations in production).
* Proven use of Infrastructure as Code, e.g., AWS CDK.
* Working knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
* Experience with Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) within Agile/DevOps teams.
* Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and DevOps best practices.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive basic salary, you will receive 25 days vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work.
Flexibility and mobility will be required; you may need to spend time onsite with clients and partners.
Closing Date
31/08/2026 (Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date).
Equal Employment Opportunity
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society. Job candidates are not required to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest. Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women. All employment decisions will be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship, or any other basis protected by law.
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