Job Role: Google Distributed Cloud Systems Engineer

Location: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Glasgow

Career Level: Manager

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Our Team

Together we engineer and build the infrastructure, tools, access and telemetry for systems that enable orchestration of Google-scale services. Come build things that matter.

As a Google Systems Engineer, you will:

• Be responsible for deploying Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDCH) solutions at customer sites as well as internal reference deployments.

• Build expertise in deploying and operating GDCH solutions

• Perform day to day troubleshooting and resolution of Infrastructure issues (Network, Storage, Servers,OS, Kubernetes, etc.).

• Interact with customers as well as internal development organizations in order to accomplish shared goals.

• Participate in Customer, Partner, and Internal team Deployments and training which will require international travel.

• Deliver train-the-trainer programs to equip Customers and Partners with the knowledge and skills to effectively conduct customer deployments.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Experience with systems automation, and with systems design and implementation and technical infrastructure (e.g., deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting).

• Experience with IaaS solutions (e.g., Kubernetes, system virtualization, on-premise or hybrid cloud computing) and cloud storage solutions (e.g., SQL database administration, Google App Engine, cloud networking solutions, or distributed computing technology).

• Experience in TCP/IP and networking concepts (PXE boot, Subnets, VLANs, Jumbo Frames, LACP, NIC Teaming, Unicast/Broadcast/Multicast, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, SSH, etc.) and in one or more areas of infrastructure: Linux, Kubernetes, Networking, Storage, etc.

• Experience as a Customer Solution Engineer.

• Experience in scripting (e.g., Bash, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.) to help with automation of routine tasks.

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineer or IT production systems engineering.

• Experience debugging/troubleshooting workload issues across multi-node environments, and with resolving P1 cases or incident management.

• Understanding of physical server, storage and network devices.

• Excellent relationship-building skills and the ability to empathize with customers.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days of vacation per year, car allowance, access to app-based fitness classes and discounts on range of gyms, private medical insurance and three days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

We strive to help our people create the right work-life balance that allows them to realise their full potential. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

Location:
Your home office will be in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, or Glasgow. This role is client-facing and may therefore involve travel up to 75% travel, working in other parts of the UK as well as overseas depending on the needs of the project.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications: 31/08/2025

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

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