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Cloud Platform Administrator

Ottawa, ON
  • Number of positions available : 1

  • To be discussed
  • Full time
  • Starting date : 1 position to fill as soon as possible

Job Description

We Are

Accenture’s Infrastructure Engineering (IE) North America are dedicated to strategically solving our client’s cloud services, data center, digital workplace and operating model IT transformation challenges. We create predictability for technology intensive environments by applying proven engineering concepts and practices for long-term solutions. Our team consists of visionary infrastructure transformers, with a multidisciplinary team of technologists, financial analysts, project and program managers. We foster critical thinking and innovation that drive career development. Our reward is in a culture of collaborative experts who drive our industry forward. If you are motivated by turning challenging ideas into reality, creating uncharted value for clients and bringing your best self to your work - we want to connect with you.

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.

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Qualifications

What You’ll Need

  • 3-5 years cloud platform engineering/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 in computer science or a related discipline.

  • Eligibility for Reliability Clearance.

Bonus Points If You Have

  • Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP).

  • Policy-as-code and compliance automation.

  • 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 $60,350 to $110,350

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement, Requesting an Accommodation, and Other Employment Statements

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Diversity

At Accenture, inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and embedded in our core values. We are committed to creating a workforce where our people can feel comfortable, be themselves and contribute. Like Canada itself, Accenture employees represent a tremendous variety of cultures, ethnicities, beliefs, backgrounds and languages. We offer an inclusive environment regardless of personal characteristics such as ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age or disability.

Requesting An Accommodation

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Other Employment Statements

It is currently our objective to assign our people to work near where they live. However, given the nature of our business and our need to serve clients, our employees must be available to travel when needed.

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