Role: Senior Platform Engineer
Locations: Manchester (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis)
Salary: Competitive salary and package (depending on level of experience)
Please note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance, which requires 5 years’ continuous UK address history at the point of application.
AI‑assisted Engineering Practices
AIYou’ll be expected to responsibly adopt AI‑assisted engineering practices—such as GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, and similar tools—for code generation, testing, documentation, and analysis, while understanding model limitations, protecting client data, and improving delivery quality and speed through pragmatic automation
SRE & Observability
You’ll bring a reliability mindset to delivery, designing services that are operable by default and measured through meaningful SLIs/SLOs. You’ll help teams implement pragmatic observability—logging, metrics, and distributed tracing—with actionable alerting, and you’ll contribute to (or lead) incident response and post‑incident reviews that drive learning and measurable improvements.
Job qualifications
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (preferably AWS/ Azure) and platform core services.
- Strong hands‑on experience in DevSecOps engineering, supporting cloud‑native platforms at scale.
- Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code, with solid hands‑on usage of Terraform across non‑prod and prod environments.
- Good understanding and practical application of SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resilience, reliability).
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools, particularly Dynatrace (or similar tools), including alerting, dashboards, and root‑cause analysis.
- Exposure to AIOps practices, leveraging automation and intelligence for proactive issue detection and incident reduction.
- Experience supporting production platforms, including incident management, problem management, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers, influence technical standards, and act as a technical point of escalation.
Benefits
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!
Requirements
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services we are known for.
Closing Date
Closing Date for Applications 31/08/2026
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.
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