DevOps Engineer - Newcastle

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing engineering team. You will play a key role in maintaining and improving the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure., 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'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. As a SRE, you will:

• You will work with cutting-edge technologies such as OpenShift, Azure, DevSecOps tooling, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), while focusing on automation, problem-solving, and collaboration across teams to ensure seamless system launches and reliable operations.
• Platform Operations: Manage and optimize our infrastructure, focusing on OpenShift and Azure cloud environments to ensure high availability and system reliability.
• Automation: Develop and implement automated solutions for deployment, monitoring, and incident response, ensuring operational efficiency.
• Incident Management: Respond to production incidents, troubleshoot issues across the full stack, and ensure minimal downtime by driving root cause analysis and applying long-term fixes.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design, build, and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform, automating the provisioning and configuration of environments.
• DevSecOps Integration: Work closely with security teams to integrate DevSecOps practices into our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring compliance and security in every phase of development and deployment.
• Cross-team Collaboration: Partner with developers, product owners, and other SREs to improve platform resilience, optimize performance, and ensure smooth system launches using comprehensive launch checklists.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Implement, tune, and manage monitoring and alerting systems to identify potential issues before they become critical.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously assess and enhance the reliability of services through automation, tooling, and process improvements, ensuring efficient incident handling and root cause resolution.
  
  Experience with OpenShift and Azure: Solid understanding and hands-on experience managing and deploying in cloud environments, specifically OpenShift and Azure.
• Automation & IaC: Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible to manage cloud resources and deploy infrastructure.
• DevSecOps: Understanding of DevSecOps principles and experience implementing security practices into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Problem-solving & Troubleshooting: Strong analytical skills with the ability to quickly diagnose and resolve system and infrastructure problems.
• Cross-team Collaboration: Proven experience working closely with development, operations, and security teams to deliver reliable and secure services.
• Launch Checklists: Familiarity with creating and utilizing launch checklists for smooth rollouts and system reliability.
• CI/CD Tools: Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or other CI/CD tools.
• Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
• Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
  
  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. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too. "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. It is personal to all of us." - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO As a team: Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high quality services to a number of private and public sector clients. You'll 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, 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. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries - powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com, Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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., 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.