Senior AWS Engineer

Accenture Federal Services•Tampa, FL

12h

About The Position

At Accenture Federal Services, our mission is to strengthen and safeguard the nation and improve lives through technology and ingenuity. We are seeking a Senior AWS Engineer to lead the design, build, and automation of our cutting-edge cloud infrastructure within a DevSecOps environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about building secure, scalable, and highly available platforms on AWS. Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration with EKS, and CI/CD pipelines is crucial for empowering development teams with a robust, self-service platform. While AWS is the primary focus, experience in hybrid environments and private cloud platforms like VMware or Openshift is a plus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience (approx. 8+ years in cloud/software engineering).
Must possess and maintain required DoD 8140 certifications.
Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with strong hands-on experience in Terraform or other languages, to include advanced usage such as targeted applies, imports and more.
Deep experience with container orchestration, specifically designing and managing Amazon EKS clusters.
Strong command of AWS IAM roles, policies, and security best practices.
Solid understanding of cloud networking, Linux/Unix administration, and security principles.
Proficiency with Git and modern GitOps workflows.
An Active TS/SCI is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with VMware vSphere in a hybrid cloud context.
Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.
Familiarity with other public clouds (Azure, GCP).
Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript).
Understanding of common authentication mechanisms, OIDC, OAuth2, LDAP, SAML.
Experience contributing to open-source projects.
One or more of the following certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate/Professional.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure environments primarily within AWS.
Implement and manage core AWS services, including networking (VPC, Transit Gateway), Kubernetes (EKS), compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3, EBS), and databases (RDS).
Architect and operate containerized workloads using Amazon EKS, including cluster management, scaling, and security.
Implement and enforce security controls, encryption, and access management to meet compliance standards such as DISA STIGs directly into IaC modules and other code.
Act as a cloud subject matter expert, providing guidance and support to development teams to optimize their use of the platform.
Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate new cloud-native technologies and recommend solutions that enhance efficiency and capability.
Champion foundational best practices, including Git workflows and the proficient use of AI tools to accelerate development and problem-solving.