Cloud Engineer

Accenture Federal Services • Chantilly, VA

10h

About The Position

Accenture Federal Services is seeking an enthusiastic and customer focused Cloud Engineer to join our team delivering mission critical platforms and capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline, or 4 years of equivalent professional or military experience can be used in lieu of degree requirements
• 4 years of experience in AWS cloud technologies and platforms
• 2 years of experience in Windows Server and/or Linux Systems Administration
• 2 years of experience with PowerShell and/or Bash Scripting
• Experience with Kubernetes
• DoD 8570 Compliant with IAT Level II certification
• An active TS/SCI level clearance is required

Nice To Haves

• AWS associate level certifications
• Experience with debugging (grepping logs, stack traces, tracking down permissions issues, etc.)
• Experience in software development to include: Commercial or Private git experience
• Experience with DevOps (configuration management (Ansible (preferred), Chef, or Puppet), application deployment, security)
• Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• General understanding of Networking principles

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure components including VPC, EKS, RDS, ECR, and Secrets Manager
• Develop and maintain reusable, modular IaC templates (e.g., Terraform or equivalent)
• Assist in packaging and deploying containerized applications to EKS
• Integrate IAM roles and service accounts with infrastructure components
• Support environment lifecycle management (dev, test, prod) via IaC
• Set up monitoring and alerting using AWS CloudWatch and EKS-native tools
• Configure autoscaling and optimize RDS performance settings
• Create documentation, operational runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
• Train customer team members on using IaC to deploy and manage resources
• Serve as a liaison between program platforms
• Assist with generating, maintaining, and deploying CCBs
• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems and environments
• Provide support for cloud systems including day-to-day operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for all the client/server/storage/network devices
• Collaborate with support teams on workload management, patch management, active directory management, onboarding, and any other troubleshooting as required
• Optimize cloud system operations, resource utilization, and perform capacity analysis and planning
• Provide detailed analysis and feedback to management and internal customers for escalated tickets
• Support the deployment of applications across multiple classification levels
• Support requirements to capabilities analysis and implementation

Benefits

• hands-on experience
• certifications
• industry training
• Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees