Cloud Platform Engineering Specialist

Accenture UK; West of England; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave for charitable work

Job summary

Accenture UK is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineering Specialist to lead enterprise-scale cloud initiatives from Bristol. You will architect AI-ready environments across Azure, AWS and GCP, design CI/CD with AI tooling, and drive intelligent, self-healing platform operations.

You will mentor engineering teams, advance policy-as-code, and contribute to scalable platform assets for future client engagements. The role requires strong leadership and hands-on cloud architecture expertise.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud platforms across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake.
• Advanced IaC tooling (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) with AI-assisted generation/governance.
• CI/CD design and implementation with AI-assisted deployment and test automation.
• AIOps, observability and self-healing platform capabilities.
• Cloud security, networking, IAM and policy-as-code engineering.
• AI-ready platform architecture for GenAI/ML workloads in production.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams; setting technical direction.
• Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and governance implications.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of enterprise-scale cloud platform programmes across multiple clouds.
• Architect AI-ready platform environments with compute, networking, storage and security requirements.
• Drive AIOps adoption, automated incident detection and self-healing infrastructure.
• Design and deliver CI/CD platforms with AI-assisted deployment and testing.
• Establish and enforce IaC practices at scale with AI-assisted code generation.
• Lead platform security, networking and compliance engineering with policy-as-code.
• Design for resilience, FinOps and cost optimisation using AI-driven telemetry.
• Promote agentic operations patterns and governance of autonomous workflows.
• Mentor and develop platform engineering teams and establish technical standards.
• Contribute to propositions, accelerators and reusable platform assets.

Skills

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

CI/CD

AI-assisted deployment

AI-ready platform architecture

AIOps

Platform security

Policy-as-code

Networking

GenAI workloads

Mentoring teams

Technical leadership

Agentic AI patterns

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Job description

Cloud Platform Engineering Specialist

Location: Bristol

Salary: Competitive Salary + Package (dependent on experience)

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

As a team:

Working across industry groups, our Data & AI team combines deep technology, business and industry expertise to design and deliver some of the largest, most challenging and highest profile data and AI solutions in the world. We operate across Financial Services, Resources, Products, Communications and Health & Public Services.

Our practice is built around three strategic capabilities: AI Platform Engineering, AI Pipelines, and Data Products. Together these capabilities cover the full spectrum of modern data and AI delivery — from the cloud infrastructure and platforms that underpin AI workloads, through the pipelines that move and transform data at scale, to the data products that turn engineering effort into lasting business value.

As a Cloud Platform Engineering Specialist, you will:

• Lead delivery of enterprise-scale cloud platform programmes, driving the design and implementation of AI-native infrastructure across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake
• Architect and oversee AI-ready platform environments from the outset — designing for the compute, networking, storage and security requirements of GenAI, ML and agentic workloads, not retrofitting them later
• Drive AIOps adoption across platform operations — implementing intelligent monitoring, automated incident detection and response, and self-healing infrastructure capabilities that reduce manual operational toil
• Lead the design and delivery of CI/CD platforms incorporating AI-assisted deployment pipelines, automated testing and operational automation, establishing these as engineering standards across delivery teams
• Establish and govern Infrastructure as Code practices at scale, increasingly leveraging AI-assisted code generation and review to accelerate platform delivery and enforce consistency
• Lead platform security, networking and compliance engineering — embedding policy-as-code, automated governance controls and AI-assisted security scanning as standard elements of platform delivery
• Design for platform resilience, FinOps and performance optimisation — using AI-driven telemetry and observability to anticipate issues, optimise cost and maintain operational excellence
• Drive adoption of agentic operations patterns — designing platforms that support autonomous and human-in-the-loop operational workflows, and leading teams in understanding how to build and govern these effectively
• Mentor and develop platform engineering teams in AI-augmented delivery practices, setting technical standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence
• Contribute to proposition development, accelerators and reusable platform assets that strengthen our market offering and reduce delivery time on future engagements

We are looking for significant experience in the following:

• Design and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud platforms across one or more of: Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code capabilities (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation or similar) including AI-assisted IaC generation and governance
• CI/CD platform design and implementation, with experience incorporating AI-assisted deployment and test automation
• AIOps, platform observability and intelligent monitoring — including experience designing or operating self-healing or autonomously managed platform capabilities
• Cloud security, networking, identity and access management, and policy-as-code engineering
• AI-ready platform architecture — proven ability to design environments that meet the demands of GenAI, ML and agentic workloads in production
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction and driving delivery to a high standard
• Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and their implications for platform design, operations and governance

Set yourself apart:

• Hands-on experience designing or operating agentic platform capabilities or AI-driven autonomous operations in production
• Cloud FinOps leadership and platform cost optimisation at enterprise scale
• Experience contributing to commercial propositions, bids or client-facing accelerators
• Infrastructure as Code experience at enterprise scale (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation or similar)
• Cloud networking, identity, access management or security engineering experience
• Familiarity with policy-as-code or platform governance controls
• Relevant advanced cloud certifications (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect)
• AI platform and engineering certifications (e.g. AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Google Professional ML Engineer, Databricks Generative AI Engineer)
• AI practitioner certifications demonstrating hands‑on fluency with leading AI platforms — for example Anthropic Claude Certified Architect (CCAR-F or CCAR-P), Microsoft Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect (AB‑100) or AI Agent Builder Associate (AB‑620), or equivalent credentials from other leading AI vendors

What’s in it for you

At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. Our 700,000+ people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications: 18/12/2026

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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