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Container Engineer Lead

Dublin Job No. r00240267 Full-time

Job Description

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres.

Our approximately 750,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners, and communities!

We are seeking an experienced senior OpenShift container engineer (+5 years) to join a Modern Engineering project as the Container lead.

The Senior Container Lead will be a key member of a Modern Engineering Platform team, delivering up-to-date delivery practices across Technology, Process and Culture. The Container Lead will be a senior member of a team of five and be responsible for the design, implementation and operational management of multiple OpenShift based Kubernetes clusters.

The Container Lead will also support the wider agile DevSecOps, automation agenda, working with product teams to reengineer existing software applications over to microservice orientated architectures.

Container Lead responsibilities will include:

  • Provide thought/technical leadership towards the architectural designs of OpenShift based Kubernetes clusters and their associated server and network infrastructures.
  • Ensure architectural designs meet non-functional requirements such as high availability and disaster recovery.
  • Design and Develop CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications.
  • Provide Technical guidance and supervision to members of the Modern Engineering Platform team, concerning the refactoring and migration of existing applications over to OpenShift containers.
  • Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
  • Maintain and optimize container orchestration and deployment processes
  • Diagnose and resolve issues related to Kubernetes and containerized applications.
  • Ensure clusters align to client security standards

Qualifications

Preferred Skillsets:

  • 5+ years experience of operating Red Hat OpenShift clusters, including ACM, ACS, Quay
  • Proven experience with CI/CD tooling: Git, Helm, ArgoCD, Sonarqube, Azure DevOps Services, Podman, Skopeo, Clair, ZAProxy, HashiCorp Vault, Gatling, Nexus Repository,
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
  • Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and hybrid cloud solutions.
  • Certifications - Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator or Kubernetes Certified Administrator

At Accenture Ireland, in addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension, private health insurance, discounted gym membership, emergency caring facilities, and 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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Please advise if you have any particular requirements, so we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at accessIErecruitment@accenture.com.

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