Cloud Platform Engineer
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:
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
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Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud platform engineering/administration.
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Strong Linux, networking, and IaC (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation).
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Kubernetes operations experience; understanding of service mesh/ingress.
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Demonstrated incident leadership and DR/BCP execution.
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Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in a related field.
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Eligibility for Reliability Clearance.
Bonus Points If You Have
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Eligible for Top Secret Security Clearance or currently holds Top Secret Security Clearance status.
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Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP).
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Policy-as-code and compliance automation.
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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
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Ottawa, Ontario
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