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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Platform Architect

Cloud EngineeringPosted on Nov 5
Full-timeOslo, NorwayNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Solid technical understanding and experience combining architecture and technical design with practical delivery of platform and infrastructure solutions.
  • Practical experience in designing, architecting, and implementing infrastructure platforms in complex IT environments.
  • Technical breadth across servers, databases, containers and Kubernetes, networking, virtualization, identity, security, and integration.
  • Experience with scripting or programming, Git, and automated delivery processes, using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Ansible, or equivalent.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, ArgoCD, or equivalent.
  • Experience with one or more cloud or virtualization platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, OpenShift, or VMware.
  • Experience with secure configuration, hardening, access management, and security principles such as Zero Trust.
  • Norwegian citizenship is required, and applicants must be able to undergo the necessary Norwegian security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Shape the technical direction of the platform and lead the planning and execution of platform initiatives.
  • Design and evolve infrastructure platforms across cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Translate business needs, security requirements, and technical needs into concrete architectural choices and implementable solutions.
  • Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD for standardized and traceable deployments.
  • Implement standards and security policies as code, and uphold access-management, secure-configuration, and identity-and-secrets-protection principles.
  • Collaborate across technical disciplines, assure delivery quality, and contribute to robust, scalable, and operable platforms.
  • Combine architecture and technical design with hands-on implementation, automation, and platform evolution throughout the lifecycle.

Desired Qualifications

  • Explore how artificial intelligence can improve the efficiency and quality assurance of platform development and management.
  • Experience with Policy as Code tools such as Open Policy Agent (OPA) or HashiCorp Sentinel.
  • Experience with Site Reliability Engineering, observability, and incident management.
  • Experience with FinOps and optimization of capacity, costs, and resource use.
  • Experience with platform and infrastructure solutions subject to special security and availability requirements.
  • Experience with modern SAST and DAST tools such as GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube, or OWASP ZAP.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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