DevOps Engineer - Newcastle

ACCENTURE; Newcastle Emlyn; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Charity leave

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Advanced Technology Centre in Newcastle. You will help deliver environments and tooling to support development and testing for our client teams, using GitLab, Jenkins, and SonarQube along with IaC and container orchestration.

You will automate CI/CD pipelines, enable automated testing, and provision serverless integrations across systems. A background in cloud, DevOps tooling, and scripting is essential, with on-site availability expected.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud offerings (public/private).
• Hands-on CI/CD implementation in tools like GitLab/Jenkins or equivalents.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK).
• Configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Familiarity with agile/lean software delivery methodologies.
• Scripting in at least one language (Python/Node.js/PowerShell/Bash).

Responsibilities

• Work in a DevOps team to deliver environments and tooling for development and testing.
• Set up and configure CI/CD and performance/security testing tools.
• Create automated processes for continuous integration and testing.
• Automate serverless integrations between systems via APIs.

Skills

Cloud experience

CI/CD concepts

Scripting skills

Agile/Lean methods

RESTful APIs

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

SonarQube

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Docker

Docker Compose

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

DevOps Engineer

Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK)

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:

Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high quality services to a number of private and public sector clients.

You’ll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you’ll be working with cutting‑edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will learn:

• How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
• How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
• How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment

Qualification

As a DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Work as part of a DevOps team to deliver environments and tools to support the development and testing of features by Accenture and Client Teams.
• Setup and configure tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, SonarQube and performance/security/resilience testing tools.
• Create automated processes for development teams to apply continuous integration and continuous testing approaches.
• Automate the provisioning of serverless integrations between different systems using their APIs.

Qualifications

• Experience with one or more Public/Private cloud offerings
• Experienced in concepts such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, including hands on implementation experience in one or more tools including automated software Quality Assurance (e.g. Gitlab, Jenkins, Codebuild)
• Infrastructure as a code experience (e.g. CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform)
• Configuration management experience (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Experience in container setup, hosting and orchestration tools such as Docker, Docker Compose, RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of Agile and Lean Software delivery methodologies
• Experience in at least 1 common scripting language (e.g. Python, Node.js, Typescript, PowerShell, Bash)

Set yourself apart:

• Experience with DevSecOps practices, including Secrets management (e.g. HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
• Maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting frequent, reliable deployments.
• Experience implementing security scanning in CI/CD with SAST and DAST
• Experience with deployment strategies such as Blue/Green or Canary Releases
• Proven track record of applying analytical and creative thought that translate into technical solutions.
• Evidence of debugging and resolving sophisticated technical issues.
• Experience implementing system monitoring and alerting using tools (e.g. CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace)
• Experience in setup and administration of Linux based environments
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, how to consume them and how to invoke / engage with them as part of DevOps pipelines and scripting.

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 may 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 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. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. 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.

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Locations

Newcastle

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About Accenture

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