Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Accenture Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Flexible Work Arrangements

Family Inclusive Workplace

Job summary

Accenture Australia is seeking a Cloud & DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms using AWS, automation, and modern DevOps practices.

You will collaborate with engineering, architecture and delivery teams to drive reliability, automation, and continuous improvement across cloud environments, including container platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS experience across EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, ElastiCache.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Packer.
• Strong Linux administration (RHEL or equivalent) and container tooling (Docker/Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• 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 apps using Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting (Elastic Stack).
• Apply cloud security best practices across infrastructure and apps.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and performance issues.
• Create and maintain technical docs and runbooks.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Scripting Bash/Python

Elastic Stack (ELK)

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

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

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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!