Cloud Platform Engineering Specialist

Company: Accenture
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Location: Leeds
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will lead the delivery of AI-native cloud platform programmes and design scalable infrastructure that powers data and AI workloads. You will shape AI-ready environments across multiple public clouds, champion AI-assisted delivery and automation, and mentor teams to uphold engineering excellence. The opportunity sits at the intersection of cloud engineering, AI, and platform governance within a global consulting practice. You will work with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and measurable impact for clients.

Pay / Benefits

  • 25 days vacation per year
  • private medical insurance
  • 3 extra days’ leave per year for charitable work
  • flexibility and mobility to spend time onsite with clients

Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise-scale cloud platform programmes and design AI-native infrastructure across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake
  • Architect AI-ready platform environments from compute to security, tailored for GenAI, ML and agentic workloads
  • Drive AIOps adoption with intelligent monitoring, automated incident response and self-healing capabilities
  • Design and deliver CI/CD platforms with AI-assisted deployment, testing and automation
  • Establish and govern Infrastructure as Code at scale, including AI-assisted code generation and governance
  • Lead security, networking and compliance engineering, embedding policy-as-code and automated governance
  • Design for resilience, FinOps and performance, leveraging AI-driven telemetry for optimization
  • Promote agentic operations patterns and guide teams in autonomous/human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Mentor platform engineering teams, set technical standards and foster continuous improvement
  • Contribute to propositions, accelerators and reusable assets to shorten delivery time

Key requirements

  • Design and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud platforms across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake
  • Advanced IaC capabilities (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation or similar) with AI-assisted generation and governance
  • CI/CD platform design and implementation with AI-assisted deployment and test automation
  • AIOps, platform observability, and intelligent monitoring including self-healing capabilities
  • Cloud security, networking, IAM, and policy-as-code engineering
  • AI-ready platform architecture for GenAI, ML and agentic workloads in production
  • Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams and setting technical direction
  • Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and governance implications
  • leadership
  • mentoring
  • collaboration
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP

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Posted: October 10th, 2026