Senior AWS Cloud Architect & Platform Lead

Accenture Poland; Województwo mazowieckie; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent employment contract

Extensive training package

Employee Assistance Program

Private medical care

Job summary

Accenture Poland is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to design and own target-state AWS architectures, lead on-prem-to-cloud migrations, and drive IaC standards with Terraform and Ansible. You will shape production Kubernetes platforms, advocate GitOps/SRE practices, and mentor engineers across international client projects.

You will collaborate with global architects to advance cloud, Kubernetes, and Open Source initiatives while supporting FinOps and security strategies.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud, 3+ as architect/lead, delivering enterprise AWS solutions (networking, IAM, hybrid).
• Strong hands-on Terraform and Ansible, including reusable module libraries and team standards.
• Production Kubernetes experience (EKS and/or self-managed), Docker/OCI, Helm, GitOps.
• Designing CI/CD pipelines with integrated security checks (DevSecOps).
• Track record leading on-prem-to-AWS migrations of Windows and Linux workloads.
• Solid SRE, observability and disaster recovery practices; strong Linux, Bash and Python.
• Commitment to open-source and open standards, weighing managed services against portable alternatives.
• Excellent communication: presenting architectural decisions to executives, mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and own target-state AWS architectures and landing zones, leading on-prem-to-cloud migrations of Windows and Linux workloads.
• Build and standardize IaC with Terraform and Ansible (reusable modules, policy-as-code), delivered via CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD/Flux).
• Architect production Kubernetes platforms (EKS and upstream) and container standards: Helm, ingress, RBAC, image security.
• Champion open-source, vendor-neutral tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Vault, OpenTofu) and GitOps/SRE practices.
• Mentor engineers, advise clients on strategy, security and FinOps, and grow as a technical leader.

Skills

Communication

Cloud strategy

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

GitOps

DevSecOps

Bash

Python

Job description

Accenture Poland is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to design and own target-state AWS architectures, lead on-prem-to-cloud migrations, and drive IaC standards with Terraform and Ansible. You will shape production Kubernetes platforms, advocate GitOps/SRE practices, and mentor engineers across international client projects.

You will collaborate with global architects to advance cloud, Kubernetes, and Open Source initiatives while supporting FinOps and security strategies.