Platform Engineering Manager – DevOps

Overview

In this Principal Software Engineer role, you’ll lead the delivery of digital products for diverse clients while hands-on coding and mentoring teams. You’ll steward projects from a systems and value perspective, ensuring robust engineering with scalable, observable services. The role blends client engagements, technical leadership, and innovation within Accenture’s SPEE team. A key hook is shaping high-impact, reliable software at scale and contributing to a culture of learning and collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• 30 days’ vacation per year
• private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work
• car allowance (as a Manager)
• flexibility and mobility to visit client sites

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements across people, delivery, quality, and commercial aspects
• Develop and run backend services across varied integration paradigms
• Mentor and guide teams to deliver high-quality, maintainable software
• Design with reliability and observability as core requirements
• Contribute to internal engineering communities and knowledge sharing
• Engage in incident response and blameless post-incident reviews to drive improvements
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering practices to enhance delivery quality and speed
• Adapt to new domains and tech stacks to meet client outcomes

Key requirements

• Several years of experience building backend services across integration paradigms
• Fluency in Java, .NET/C#, Python, or TypeScript
• Experience deploying and operating cloud-native apps on AWS and/or Azure
• Experience in DevOps environments with automated testing
• Egoless collaboration and cross-functional teamwork
• Reliability-first design with measurable SLIs/SLOs
• Strong focus on observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and incident management
• Hands-on GenAI experience or active personal GenAI projects
• Willingness to travel and work onsite with clients

• relationship-building with stakeholders
• team leadership and collaboration
• problem-solving under evolving requirements
• Backend services development
• Cloud-native architecture (AWS/Azure)
• DevOps practices

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