Senior Cloud & OpenShift Architect (London)

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect (OpenShift) at Manager level in London. You will lead conversations with clients to shape cloud and OpenShift-based platform solutions, setting the technical direction and driving modernization at scale.

You will champion security, resilience, and observability, while mentoring teams and defining platform governance across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic cloud architecture with business outcome focus.
• Ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands‑on OpenShift and Kubernetes in large enterprise environments.
• Deep knowledge of GitOps, multi-cluster management and platform governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead conversations with clients to define cloud and OpenShift solutions.
• Set technical direction for cloud platforms and OpenShift at scale.
• Champion performance, resilience, security, and observability across platforms.
• Define platform standards, governance artefacts, and lifecycle management.
• Mentor architectures teams and drive architectural governance.

Skills

Strategic Cloud Architecture

Advisory & Technical Leadership

OpenShift Platform Architecture

OpenShift GitOps & Multi-Cluster Mgmt

OpenShift Virtualization & Moderniz.

OpenShift & Kubernetes Networking

Segmentation, Multi-Tenancy & Zero Tr

CNI & SDN

Architecture Delivery

Agentic AI Curiosity

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GitOps

Argo CD

OpenShift Virtualization

Job description

Accenture UK is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect (OpenShift) at Manager level in London. You will lead conversations with clients to shape cloud and OpenShift-based platform solutions, setting the technical direction and driving modernization at scale.

You will champion security, resilience, and observability, while mentoring teams and defining platform governance across hybrid environments.