DevOps Engineer (SC)
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Position Overview & Specifications
DevOps Engineer (SC)
Location: London or Newcastle (100% onsite)
Term: 4 months
Rate: up to £900 per day (inside IR35 via Umbrella Company)
Active or lapsed SC required. Candidates with expired clearance cannot be considered
Job Description
We’re looking for exceptional, DevOps Support Engineer to join a high-profile project in the FS space in Accenture.
You will be deployed on this client engagement, as an integral part of the DevOps and Engineering Core team
Working closely with the – Maintenance and Support Team, Managing the Route all the way to Live.
You are a highly motivated, self-directed technologist, with experience delivering continuous integration, on-prem and hybrid digital platforms.
This is an opportunity to deliver the agility and speed-to-market needed to thrive in today’s competitive technical landscape: hack, plan, prototype, innovate, automate, containerise, data wrangle, support and manage work in the DevOps & Engineering team during the build and run phases of the project.
technologist, with experience delivering continuous integration and cloud-based solutions for digital platforms.
We’re looking for the following skill set:
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills to collaborate effectively with customers (all levels), peers, and vendors
- Experience of consulting engagements
- Demonstrated experience applying good CI/CD principles in complex multi-environment domains
- Understanding and implementation of GitOps principles, processes, and tools.
- Experience with Agile Scrum for development, deliver and Use of collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence.
- Advanced knowledge relating to automation, security, stability, and scalability in private and public cloud environments (AWS and MS Azure); More focus on private cloud – on-premises (Client Datacentres) in relation to this project.
Key Skills
- MTLS for apps on VMs and containers
- Openshift / K8 skills / Container platforms
- Ansible
- Terraform
- ApiGee
- Cassandra
- Jenkins – Declarative Pipelines – Management and creation of pipelines
- GitOps – Kustomize configuration
- Twistlock
- CyberArk + Conjur
Hands-on(preferably) technology experience working with relevant technologies (or similar) such as:
- Build systems – Jenkins
- Automation technologies – Ansible
- Source control and code management – GitHub
- Containers – Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Understanding of Automated testing – Selenium, Cucumber
- Operational monitoring - Splunk
- Application security and Vault technologies - Hashicorp Vault
- Web / application servers – NGINX, Node, Apache
- API gateways – Specifically ApiGee
- Collaboration tools – Jira, Mattermost, Confluence
Experience on projects with:
- SaFE (Agile for Enterprise) for project delivery
- Demonstrated Client facing from the technical level to the C-Suite level
- Environment Architecture
- Infrastructure as Code
- JSON, YAML
- Python
Additional Job Details
1 - Red Hat OpenShift (Expert)
2 - Ansible on Microsoft Azure (Advanced)
3 - Cloud Automation DevOps (Advanced)
4 - Jenkins (Software) (Advanced)
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 4 months
Salary: Up to £900.00 per day
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
Licence/Certification:
- Security Clearance (required)
Work Location: One location
Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Business Consulting
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for DevOps Engineer (SC) roles across Accenture's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Business Consulting.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £113 - £113 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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