DevOps Architect

Accenture; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a DevOps Architect to assess, design, and engineer DevOps solutions across cloud-native and on-prem environments. The role focuses on building scalable CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure with IaC, and ensuring high reliability in complex tech ecosystems.

The ideal candidate will have 7.5+ years of experience, 15 years of full-time education, and strong skills across Terraform, Ansible, cloud platforms, and container orchestration.

Qualifications

• 7.5+ years of experience in DevOps and cloud infra.
• 15 years of full-time education required.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Pulumi.
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP.

Responsibilities

• IaC development and infrastructure automation.
• Develop predictive automation using monitoring/observability tools.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI).
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Pulumi, CrossPlane.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Cloud

Education

15 years education

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

CircleCI

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Job Description:

Project Role : DevOps Architect

Project Role Description : Assess, design, and engineer DevOps solutions in complex technology environments. Design and build DevOps technical solutions for cloud-native, cloud-enabled, and on-prem infrastructure with microservices or traditional application patterns.

Must have skills : Cloud Automation DevOps

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 7.5 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary: We re looking for a Infrastructure Automation and DevOps Engineer who combines software development expertise with strong DevOps and cloud infrastructure skills. You ll be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable web applications while implementing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, and ensuring high system reliability and performance. You ll work closely with developers, QA engineers, and operations teams to streamline deployment processes and enhance development workflows.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• IaC Development
• 1) Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure Automation using IaC principals and DevOps Skills.
• 2) Develop Predictive automation using Monitoring and Observability tools.DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure
• 3) Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI.
• 4) Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible, Pulumi and CrossPlane.
• 5) Deploy and monitor applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• 6) Set up automated monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog).
• 7) Enhance system reliability, security, and scalability through automation and best practices.Operations & Collaboration
• 8) Participate in code reviews and DevOps strategy discussions.
• 9) Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with a focus on uptime and performance.
• 10) Implement security best practices and assist with compliance standards.
• 11) Mentor junior developers and contribute to improving development workflows.

Professional & Technical Skills: DevOps & Automation Tools

• 1) CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Travis CI, ArgoCD
• 2) Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi
• 3) Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack
• 4) Monitoring & observability: Splunk, DataDog, Prometheus.Cloud & Infrastructure
• 5) Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• 6) Compute & Networking: EC2, Lambda, VPC, Load Balancers, Route 53, DNS, VPNs
• 7) Storage & Databases: S3, RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
• 8) Containerization: Docker, Podman
• 9) Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, OpenShiftSystem Administration & Networking
• 10) Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Alpine), Bash scripting, basic Windows Server knowledge
• 11) Networking Fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, SSL/TLS, HTTP/HTTPS, VPN, firewalls
• 12) Security & Compliance: IAM, Secrets Management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), SSH, encryption, vulnerability scanningObservability & Incident Response
• 13) Monitoring: Application and system performance metrics
• 14) Alerting & Incident Management: PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Slack integrations
• 15) Logging: Centralized log management (ELK, Fluentd, Splunk) Bonus / Emerging Skills
• 16) Serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
• 17) GitOps (Flux, ArgoCD)
• 18) AIOps and observability automation
• 19) SRE principles (Service Level Indicators/Objectives)Cloud Observability Skills: Multi-cloud monitoring, Cloud cost optimization, Cloud performance analysis, Cloud-native troubleshooting, Cloud security observabilityTools: Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, GCP Operations Suite, Datadog Cloud Monitoring, Dynatrace Cloud AutomationSkills: Network flow analysis, Packet analytics, WAN observability, SD-WAN monitoring, Network performance management, Network anomaly detectionTools: ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco AppDynamics Network Monitoring, RiverbedObservability: SCOM, SolarWinds, Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring, Dynatrace Infrastructure, VMware Aria Operations, Turbonomic

Additional Information:

• 1) Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• 2) Collaboration with developers, QA, and IT teams
• 3) Understanding agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• 4) Continuous learning and adapting to new tools and cloud services
• 5) Flexible to work in 24*7 environment
• 15 years full time education

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.

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