Cloud Platform Engineer
About The Position
The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) are the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. The ATCs make tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. As the global environment changes at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients. For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world. For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world’s most complex client challenges.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud platform engineering/administration.
- Strong Linux, networking, and IaC (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation).
- Kubernetes operations experience; understanding of service mesh/ingress.
- Demonstrated incident leadership and DR/BCP execution.
- Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in a related field.
- Eligibility for Reliability Clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Eligible for Top Secret Security Clearance or currently holds Top Secret Security Clearance status.
- Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP).
- Policy-as-code and compliance automation.
- Bilingual (English/French).
Responsibilities
- Operate and optimize hybrid cloud estates (Google Distributed Cloud/Anthos, Azure Stack, Outposts, Nutanix) with enterprise guardrails.
- Design and maintain Terraform/Ansible stacks; implement reusable modules, remote state, and drift detection.
- Engineer Kubernetes platforms (control plane upgrades, node OS baselines, CNI, ingress/egress, registry, policy).
- Implement network patterns (hub/spoke, firewalls, WAF, Private Link/Endpoints); troubleshoot routing and DNS.
- Lead incident response and post-incident reviews; drive reliability backlogs and SLO adoption.
- Implement ITSG‑33-aligned controls; integrate with SIEM, KMS/HSM, and secret managers.
- Embed FinOps: rightsizing, reservation planning, cost visibility, and optimization guardrails.
- Mentor junior engineers; partner with Security, Network, App teams to enable platform consumption.
- Ability to work shifts/on-call; comfort working on-site in high-security environments.
- Travel may be required based on client demand. Accenture promotes a client-centric, flexible work environment.
- This role will require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. Preferred location: Ottawa.
Benefits
- Information on benefits is here.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
