Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Accenture PLC; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Career break opportunities

Career development program

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking an experienced Cloud & DevOps Engineer to design and manage AWS cloud infrastructure. This role requires collaboration with various teams to enhance automation and reliability in cloud environments.

Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in cloud engineering and automation tools, with a focus on best security practices. The position also demands flexibility for shifts and on-call duties to support IT systems across client operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, IAM, and S3.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.

Skills

AWS experience

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Docker

Kubernetes

Scripting

Monitoring and logging

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Packer

Elastic Stack (ELK)

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Cloud & DevOps Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud platforms.

This is an opportunity to work on complex enterprise environments leveraging AWS, automation, container platforms, and modern DevOps practices.

You'll collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, and delivery teams to drive automation, reliability, and continuous improvement across cloud environments.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support efficient software delivery
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
• Deploy and support containerized applications using Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting solutions using ELK and other observability tools
• Apply cloud security best practices across infrastructure and applications
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents and performance issues
• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years' experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering or similar roles
• Strong hands‑on AWS experience across services such as: EC2 RDS VPC IAM CloudWatch S3 ElastiCache
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using: Jenkins Terraform Ansible Packer
• Strong Linux administration experience (RHEL or equivalent)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Scripting experience using Bash, Python or similar
• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms such as Elastic Stack (ELK)

Additional Requirements

Security Clearance Requirement: Given the secure nature of this role, we are seeking candidates who are Australian Citizens with an active security clearance.

This requirement ensures that all team members are cleared to handle sensitive information and contribute to maintaining the highest standards of security in our operations.

On-call and Shift Expectations

Our positions are primarily focused on managed services, meaning you will be responsible for maintaining and improving our clients' IT systems (Applications and Infrastructure). Flexibility and adaptability are key, as you may be required to work in shifts to provide continuous support. Additionally, you may need to be on call to address incidents promptly and perform after‑hours deployment activities as needed. Your ability to effectively manage these responsibilities will be crucial to ensuring the seamless operation of our services and client satisfaction

Benefits of working at Accenture

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities.
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centred around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!