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).
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.
- Set up 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 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 one 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.
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