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Cloud Platform Engineer
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Experience
- Minimum 2 years of experience in cloud platform engineering and/or cloud platform administration.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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We Are
The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is 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.
Stronger together!
The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. Now, with the global environment changing 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.
The value for our clients and our people
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.
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
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
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 Hourly Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $25.41 to $49.45
and
The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is 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.
Stronger together!
The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. Now, with the global environment changing 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.
The value for our clients and our people
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.
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.
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 2 years of experience in cloud platform engineering and/or cloud platform 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.
- 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).
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 Hourly Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $25.41 to $49.45
and
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Responsibilities
Operate and optimize hybrid cloud platforms, build reusable infrastructure-as-code stacks, and engineer reliable Kubernetes and network environments. Lead incident response and reliability improvements, implement security and cost controls, and mentor engineers while partnering with security, network, and application teams.
Requirements
Requires at least two years of cloud platform engineering or administration experience, strong Linux, networking, and infrastructure-as-code skills, and Kubernetes operations experience. A related bachelor's degree or college diploma and eligibility for Reliability Clearance are required; incident leadership and disaster recovery experience are also expected.
Skills
- Cloud Platform Engineering
- Hybrid Cloud Operations
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CloudFormation
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Networking
- Incident Response
- Disaster Recovery
- Business Continuity Planning
- Infrastructure as Code
- FinOps
- Security Controls
- Mentoring
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Categories
- Technology
- Engineering
- Security & Safety
- Consulting
Keywords
- Google Distributed Cloud
- Anthos
- Azure Stack
- AWS Outposts
- Nutanix
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CloudFormation
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Networking
- Infrastructure as Code
- Service Mesh
- Ingress
- Hub-and-Spoke Networking
- Firewalls
- Web Application Firewall
- Private Link
- DNS
- ITSG-33
- SIEM
- KMS
- HSM
- Secret Managers
- FinOps
- SLOs
- Policy as Code
- Compliance Automation
- Reliability Clearance
- Top Secret Clearance