DevOps Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer - Newcastle

Location:

Newcastle, United Kingdom.

Role Overview: Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next‑generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person.

Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but also for inclusion and diversity. “Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture:
We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO.

Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from which we deliver high‑quality services to a number of private and public sector clients. You will learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.

As part of our global team, you will be working with cutting‑edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

Please Note: Due to the nature of client work you will be undertaking, you will need to be willing to go through a Security Clearance process as part of this role, which requires 5+ years UK address history at the point of application.

• Work as part of a Dev Ops team to deliver environments and tools to support the development and testing of features by Scrum teams.
• Automate the provisioning of serverless integrations between different systems using their APIs.
• Setup and configure tools such as Git Lab, Jenkins, Smart Bear, Sonar Qube and performance/security/resilience testing tools.
• Create automated processes for development teams to apply continuous integration and continuous testing approaches.

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, including hands‑on implementation experience with tools such as Git Lab, Jira, Code Build, etc.
• Infrastructure as a Code experience – Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, Terraform, etc.
• Familiarity with approaches and tooling for automated software quality assurance.
• Experience using tools such as Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning, environment setup and software deployment.
• Experience implementing system monitoring and alerting using tools such as Cloud Watch, App Dynamics, Kibana, Splunk or Prometheus.
• Experience with one or more public/private cloud offerings and with virtualization technologies.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, how to consume them and how to invoke/engage with them as part of Dev Ops pipelines and scripting.
• Working knowledge of Agile and Lean software delivery methodologies.
• Experience in setup and administration of Linux‑based environments.
• Experience in at least one common scripting language (Python, Node.js, Typescript, Power Shell, Bash).

• Confident in leading teams and/or introducing Dev Ops to new projects.
• Experienced in defining and managing roadmaps for the implementation of Dev Ops in an enterprise IT organisation.
• Experienced in technical architecture – the design and delivery of IT systems for a broad range of clients.
• Experienced in virtual network setup and/or functional/performance testing.

At Accenture the role offers a competitive basic salary and an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and three extra days leave per year for charitable work. Flexibility and mobility are required, as there may be occasions where onsite work with clients and partners is necessary.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications: 29/12/2025

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries:
  Internet Publishing