Accenture

Cloud Platform Engineer

Accenture$83K — $196K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or similar roles.
  • Hands-on skills with AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent cloud platforms.
  • Proficiency in infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
  • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar container orchestration technologies.
  • Knowledge of cloud security, networking, and operational troubleshooting.
  • Ability to lead platform initiatives and mentor junior engineers for experienced candidates.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or similar environments.
  • Automate infrastructure with tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deploy automation processes.
  • Operate containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Establish monitoring and reliability measures for cloud applications.
  • Integrate DevSecOps practices into engineering processes.
  • Automate routine tasks and support troubleshooting efforts.
  • Collaborate with varied teams including product engineers and security.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Retirement plan options with employer matching contributions.
  • Paid time off, including holidays and vacation days.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Flexible work arrangements including hybrid and remote options.
Full Job Description
You are:

A cloud and platform engineer who builds the reusable infrastructure, automation, and engineering foundations that product teams rely on. You enjoy making environments secure, repeatable, observable, reliable, and easier for developers to use. You may be developing your cloud/DevOps foundation or already be ready to independently own platform components, pipelines, environments, or reliability workstreams. As your experience grows, you may lead platform designs, define infrastructure and DevSecOps patterns, mentor engineers, shape reliability strategy, and influence cloud architecture and platform standards across teams or programs.

The work:
  • Design, build, automate, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, or comparable environments.
  • Create and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or comparable technologies.
  • Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, deployment automation, environment provisioning, and release controls.
  • Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, managed container platforms, or comparable technologies.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, resilience, backup/recovery, and reliability practices for cloud platforms and applications.
  • Apply DevSecOps, identity/access, secrets management, network, configuration, patching, and security controls throughout platform engineering.
  • Automate repetitive operational work using scripting and engineering tools and support incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
  • Use AFS-approved AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to accelerate automation, troubleshooting, documentation, code development, and platform analysis while validating outputs.
  • Partner with product engineers, Quality Engineers, Enterprise Architects, security teams, delivery leaders, and client stakeholders.
  • As your experience grows, lead complex platform initiatives, establish reusable patterns and standards, mentor engineers, and shape cloud/platform architecture and reliability practices.

Here's what you need:
  • Professional experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or comparable work, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or another major cloud platform.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or a comparable technology.
  • Experience with CI/CD, Git-based workflows, scripting/automation, and modern software delivery practices.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container platforms, or comparable workload orchestration technologies.
  • Understanding of cloud networking, identity/access, observability, security, reliability, and operational troubleshooting.
  • For candidates with deeper experience, demonstrated ability to lead complex platform initiatives, define standards, mentor others, and influence architecture and reliability decisions across teams.

Bonus points if you have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Cloud certifications from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or comparable providers.
  • Experience with Helm, Argo CD, GitOps, service mesh, policy as code, secrets management, or platform engineering products.
  • Experience with SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, capacity planning, FinOps, resilience engineering, or disaster recovery.
  • Experience with federal cloud security, zero trust, FedRAMP-oriented environments, or regulated systems.
  • Ability to collaborate with development and security teams and take increasing ownership of platform components or cloud workstreams.
  • Previous federal consulting, government, or mission-oriented delivery experience.

Eligibility Requirements:
  • U.S. Citizenship required.
  • Ability to work with federal clients and comply with applicable AFS, client, security, and program requirements.
  • Ability to work in a hybrid, remote, or client-site environment as program needs require.


As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:

$83,600-$196,000 USD

About Accenture

Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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624,000 employees
Market Cap
$173.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$5.2 billion
Founded
1989
5 Year Trend
+11.2%
Revenue
$44.7 billion
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