Azure & AKS Platform Engineer — Cloud Automation

Accenture Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Career development program

Local and international career options

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Platform Engineer (Azure & AKS) to design, build, and support secure, scalable cloud platforms. You will automate provisioning and deployments using Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Helm, while enforcing security and operational best practices across AKS and Azure infrastructure.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions, monitor performance with Prometheus and Grafana, and drive automation through IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Hands-on with Microsoft Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Docker and Linux administration.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation/scripting practices.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, GitOps and software configuration management using Azure DevOps, GitHub, Argo CD, Flux, SonarQube or Artifactory.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, RBAC, authentication, and enterprise storage solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and support AKS platforms and associated Azure infrastructure.
• Automate platform provisioning, configuration and deployments using Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub and Helm.
• Implement security, compliance and operational best practices including RBAC and secret management.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise platform performance with Prometheus, Grafana and Application Insights.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and security teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Cloud Engineering

Automation & Scripting

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Tools

Azure

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Argo CD

Flux

SonarQube

Artifactory

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Platform Engineer (Azure & AKS) to design, build, and support secure, scalable cloud platforms. You will automate provisioning and deployments using Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Helm, while enforcing security and operational best practices across AKS and Azure infrastructure.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions, monitor performance with Prometheus and Grafana, and drive automation through IaC and CI/CD pipelines.