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Accenture

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Forward Deployed Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
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Bachelor's
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In PersonPosition is based at the Bengaluru office.
DevOps & InfrastructurePlatform Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 12 years of experience is required; the additional information also lists 12–15+ years in platform, tools, or infrastructure engineering.
  • At least 7.5 years of experience in Agentic Orchestration.
  • 15 years of full-time education is required.
  • Mandatory certifications: Terraform Associate or Professional, Splunk Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or GCP DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, and HashiCorp Vault Associate.
  • Experience with Splunk SLO engineering, OpenTelemetry, ELK/Splunk log pipelines, and distributed tracing.
  • Advanced Terraform, including modular design, policy-as-code, and drift detection; Ansible or Chef for configuration management.
  • GitHub Actions and ArgoCD pipeline engineering, GitOps workflows, policy enforcement, and infrastructure deployment automation.
  • ServiceNow workflow automation, CMDB integration, incident/problem/change API integration, and PagerDuty or OpsGenie connectivity.
  • Internal developer portal service catalogues, golden-path templates, self-service provisioning, and plugin development.
  • HashiCorp Vault dynamic secrets, PKI automation, Kubernetes authentication, and multi-cloud secrets lifecycle management.
  • OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini; prompt engineering, RAG architecture, vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or ChromaDB, and LLMOps.
  • LangChain, LlamaIndex, or CrewAI agentic workflow design, multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Advanced Python for platform tooling development, LLM SDK integration, infrastructure automation, and API development.
  • PCI DSS, SOX, and DORA platform access controls, audit logging, policy-as-code enforcement, and regulatory evidence production.
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and operate enterprise observability platforms using Splunk, providing unified metrics, logging, and tracing across infrastructure tiers and OpenTelemetry instrumentation standards.
  • Engineer and govern the infrastructure-as-code platform using Terraform or Pulumi, including module libraries, state management, policy-as-code with Sentinel or OPA, drift detection, and multi-cloud coverage across AWS and GCP.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD and GitOps pipeline infrastructure using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for infrastructure and application platform delivery, and operate the Backstage internal developer portal for self-service provisioning.
  • Own ITSM platform engineering, including ServiceNow workflow automation, CMDB reconciliation, PagerDuty/OpsGenie integrations, and automated incident-creation pipelines across infrastructure towers.
  • Engineer LLM-powered runbook automation by integrating OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini with infrastructure tooling to automate incident triage, resolution workflows, and knowledge-base queries.
  • Build agentic ITSM workflows using multi-agent orchestration with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or CrewAI to handle incident classification, runbook execution, and stakeholder communication with human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Implement AI-powered alert correlation and noise reduction using LLM-based reasoning to group related alerts, suppress false positives, and surface actionable incident context to on-call engineers.
  • Design RAG architectures for infrastructure knowledge bases so engineers can query runbooks, operational documentation, and incident history through natural-language interfaces backed by vector databases.
  • Engineer secret-management infrastructure using HashiCorp Vault dynamic secrets, PKI automation, and Kubernetes authentication across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Mentor engineers across infrastructure towers, set platform engineering standards, drive tooling roadmaps, and act as the highest technical escalation point for platform and AI tooling issues.
  • Organize the deployment of AI workflows and architectures across diverse AI and technology platforms, and facilitate solution design across enterprise technology stacks to integrate with AI models and multi-provider platforms.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Crossplane for Kubernetes-native cloud resource provisioning.
  • Experience with eBPF-based observability tools such as Cilium, Pixie, or Hubble for deep infrastructure telemetry.
  • Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, including GPU node management, model-serving platforms such as Triton or vLLM, or MLflow.
  • A platform engineering or SRE consulting background within financial services.

About the company

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Accenture

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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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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Professional Development Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match

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Accenture has capped employee AI spending at $29 (£21.75) a month after some staff ran up bills of $1,000, according to a report by 404 Media. The consulting firm wants to curb runaway costs as employees use AI for more everyday tasks. Companies are typically billed by usage, like a utility. Last week, some staff were told their access to Anthropic's Claude had been pulled entirely. Others are also reining in costs. Uber capped engineers' Claude spending at $1,500 a month after using up its AI budget in four months, while Microsoft has reportedly cut its Claude spending by about a third. The curbs come as Anthropic prepares for a public listing, targeting a valuation as high as $2tn. Investors are reportedly considering about $1.5tn.

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