You are:
You're a cloud platform specialist who automates everything, enforces guardrails, and keeps platforms reliable and cost-efficient. You lead incidents, mentor others, and partner with architecture to land secure patterns at scale.
The Work:
- 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.What You'll Need- 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.
Bonus Points If You Have- 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).
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Information on benefits is here.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $74,000 to $124,000
#LI-NA-FY25 and #LI-MPTravel 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. 
