Dev Ops Engineer

DevOps Engineer @The Dock About The Dock The Dock is Accenture’s flagship R&D and Global Innovation Center, based in Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock. As an incubation hub for the next generation of AI and GenAI agentic solutions, The Dock brings together a global community of business strategists, designers, engineers, data scientists, and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to solve some of the world’s hardest problems and create transformational products and services that help industries thrive in the face of unprecedented change. From shaping the future of work with intelligent systems to building breakthrough digital platforms, our team operates across the entire innovation spectrum, from exploration to real‑world deployment. At The Dock, we experiment boldly, collaborate openly, and build the future in real time. About the Role We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team at The Dock. You’ll be part of a DevOps function with the responsibility of building, maintaining and optimising cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll work across cloud services, infrastructure‑as‑code, container orchestration, automation, observability and secure-by‑design engineering practices. While this is not a purely operations role, you bring a strong mindset for reliability, repeatability and pragmatic engineering. You will collaborate closely with other engineers, technical architects, data scientists and product managers to support multiple development teams. You’ll be responsible for owning specific technical components of a build such as provisioning clouds environments, networking layers, code repositories and developer tools, ensuring they are consistent with the company standards. For this role, you must have a strong appetite for continuous learning and interest in exploring technology developments in your domain of expertise. Knowledge sharing and collaboration are central to this role. You must be able to communicate your domain expertise to both technical and non-technical team members. Responsibilities: You must have a curious approach to problem solving, bringing a systems thinking mindset to the role and a strong sense of ownership. Write clean, maintainable, well-tested and documented code. Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitLab CI). Build and manage cloud-native infrastructure using IaC frameworks. Deploy and operate containerised workloads. Implement monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, and health check frameworks. Create reproducible environments to accelerate engineering, to maintain technical consistence and quality. Embed security into the engineering lifecycle (DevSecOps): secrets management, vulnerability scanning, dependency management, and threat modelling. Own secure networks access across the whole OSI layers. Including setting up VPNs, managing firewall settings and ensuring compliance with Accenture’s policy and procedures. Bring clarity and pragmatism to technical decisions—highlight trade-offs, risks and identify more efficient paths where necessary. Lead the continuous improvement of development processes ensuring both your own code and the code of others is maintainable and extensible. Use AI tools to accelerate DevOps tasks, automate processes and improve quality and documentation where appropriate.