Jobs / Accenture
Cloud Platform Engineering Specialist
Accenture · Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom
Leeds, ENG, United KingdomOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive salary and package; 25 days’ vacation per year; private medical insurance; three extra days’ leave per year for charitable work
Location
Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Leads enterprise-scale cloud platform engineering programmes that provide the infrastructure, automation and operational foundations for demanding data and AI workloads. The role covers AI-ready architecture, AIOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, security, resilience and FinOps across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. It also sets technical standards, mentors engineering teams and advances AI-augmented and agentic operations practices.
Benefits
25 days’ vacation per yearPrivate medical insuranceThree extra days’ leave per year for charitable work
Qualifications
- Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud platforms
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code skills, such as Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD platforms
- Experience with AIOps, observability, intelligent monitoring or self-healing platforms
- Cloud security, networking, identity and access management, and policy-as-code experience
- Ability to design production platforms for GenAI, machine learning and agentic workloads
- Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams
- Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and their platform, operations and governance implications
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of enterprise-scale cloud platform programmes
- Design and oversee AI-ready platform environments for GenAI, machine learning and agentic workloads
- Implement AIOps, intelligent monitoring, automated incident response and self-healing infrastructure
- Design CI/CD platforms with AI-assisted deployment pipelines, automated testing and operational automation
- Establish and govern Infrastructure as Code practices at scale
- Lead platform security, networking and compliance engineering
- Design for resilience, FinOps and performance optimisation
- Develop platforms for autonomous and human-in-the-loop operations
- Mentor platform engineering teams and establish technical standards
- Develop propositions, accelerators and reusable platform assets
Skills
AWSAzureBicepCloudFormationDatabricksGCPIAMSnowflakeTerraformGitHub ActionsGitLab CIGrafanaJenkinsOpenTelemetryPrometheus
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect ProfessionalAzure Solutions Architect ExpertGoogle Professional Cloud ArchitectAWS Machine Learning SpecialtyGoogle Professional Machine Learning EngineerDatabricks Generative AI EngineerAnthropic Claude Certified Architect (CCAR-F or CCAR-P)Microsoft Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect (AB-100)AI Agent Builder Associate (AB-620)
Travel
Onsite time with clients and partners
Industry
Financial ServicesResourcesProductsCommunicationsHealth and Public Services
Relocation
No