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Platform Engineering Manager - DevOps

Accenture · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive salary and package; car allowance; 30 days’ vacation; private medical insurance; three additional days of leave for charitable work
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Leads hands-on engineering and client engagements to deliver digital products, guiding people, delivery, quality, and commercial outcomes while helping clients choose effective, low-complexity solutions. Builds backend services and cloud-native applications on AWS or Azure, applying DevOps and automated testing practices. Promotes reliability through meaningful SLIs and SLOs, observability, incident response, and post-incident reviews, and supports responsible use of GenAI in engineering.

Benefits

30 days’ vacationPrivate medical insuranceThree additional days of leave for charitable workCar allowance

Qualifications

  • Several years of experience building backend services across synchronous API-driven, message-driven, and event-driven integrations
  • Fluency in at least one of Java, .NET/C#, Python, or TypeScript
  • Recent experience building, deploying, and operating cloud-native applications on AWS or Azure
  • Experience working in DevOps teams using industry-standard practices
  • Experience producing repeatable automated tests
  • Hands-on GenAI experience or personal GenAI projects
  • Ability to build stakeholder relationships and collaborate across roles
  • Reliability-first approach, including designing operable services measured with meaningful SLIs and SLOs
  • Comfort learning new domains and technology stacks

Responsibilities

  • Lead client engagements across people, delivery, quality, and commercial outcomes
  • Deliver high-quality engineering and guide teams toward effective, low-complexity solutions
  • Advise clients on using consultancy support to achieve their goals
  • Promote pragmatic observability through logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and actionable alerting
  • Contribute to incident response and blameless post-incident reviews
  • Help teams adopt AI-assisted engineering practices safely and effectively
  • Contribute to regional engineering communities and share technical knowledge

Skills

AWSAzureC#.NETJavaPythonTypeScriptGrafanaGraphQLJavaScriptOpenTelemetryPrometheusREST

Travel

Ad hoc travel to client sites throughout the UKOnsite work with clients and partners

Industry

Professional servicesTechnology

Security clearance

BPSS clearanceSC clearanceFive years of continuous UK address history required at application

Relocation

No