Cloud Engineer
About The Position
At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company and part of global Accenture, to do work that matters in a collaborative and caring community, where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more. Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward! 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
