Lead AI-Ready Cloud Platform Engineer

Accenture; Leeds; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Volunteer days

Job summary

Accenture in Leeds is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineering Specialist to lead enterprise-scale AI-native cloud programmes across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. You will architect AI-ready platform environments and drive AI-assisted CI/CD and platform automation.

Join a team delivering scalable infrastructure, AI-driven observability and policy-as-code, while mentoring engineers and contributing to reusable platform assets for future engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud platforms across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Fabric or Snowflake.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code capabilities with AI-assisted generation and governance.
• CI/CD platform design and implementation with AI-assisted deployment and test automation.
• Experience with AIOps, observability and intelligent monitoring.
• Cloud security, networking, IAM and policy-as-code engineering.
• AI-ready platform architecture for GenAI/ML workloads in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of enterprise-scale cloud platform programmes across multiple clouds and tools.
• Architect AI-ready platform environments covering compute, networking, storage and security.
• Drive AIOps adoption with automated incident detection, monitoring and self-healing infra.
• Lead CI/CD platforms with AI-assisted deployment pipelines and automated testing.
• Establish and enforce IaC practices with AI-assisted code generation and review.
• Lead security, networking and policy-as-code engineering for platforms.
• Design for resilience, FinOps and cost optimization using AI telemetry.
• Mentor platform engineering teams and set technical standards.

Skills

Cloud platform expertise

IaC

CI/CD

AIOps

Security

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Job description

Accenture in Leeds is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineering Specialist to lead enterprise-scale AI-native cloud programmes across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. You will architect AI-ready platform environments and drive AI-assisted CI/CD and platform automation.

Join a team delivering scalable infrastructure, AI-driven observability and policy-as-code, while mentoring engineers and contributing to reusable platform assets for future engagements.