Senior Cloud Engineer

Accenture Federal Services•Reston, VA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

At Accenture Federal Services, our purpose is to make the US federal government stronger and safer, and to improve people's lives. We are a technology company within global Accenture, with over 13,000 employees dedicated to leveraging technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. We are recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, offering a collaborative and supportive community where employees can grow, learn, and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training. Join us to drive positive, lasting change that advances missions and the government forward. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be instrumental in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud solutions that enable our clients to fully utilize cloud technologies. Your responsibilities will include developing a robust and scalable cloud infrastructure, mentoring junior engineers to foster their professional growth, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery to client missions. This role requires 5 days onsite in Reston, VA.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
10+ years of relevant IT, systems or infrastructure experience, including 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience.
Experience designing, building, supporting and troubleshooting AWS cloud infrastructure in classified government environments.
Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda or CloudFormation.
Experience supporting AWS GovCloud and/or other classified AWS environments.
Strong infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible.
Experience implementing cloud security controls, including IAM, SSO, federation, security baselines and account-auditing policies.
Experience securing and hardening Linux or Windows cloud systems in accordance with applicable security and RMF requirements.
Scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash or a similar language.
Active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting AWS environments across multiple classification domains.
Experience creating, managing and hardening Amazon Machine Images or other cloud-based OS images.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or EKS.
Experience with microservices or serverless architecture.
Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
AWS cloud certification.
Experience providing architecture guidance or supporting large-scale cloud-modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

Support the design and implementation of cloud-based architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security in alignment with industry best practices.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, troubleshoot issues, and optimize cloud infrastructure.
Mentor and provide technical guidance to a team of cloud engineers, reviewing their work, and helping them solve complex technical challenges.
Engage with stakeholders to translate technical requirements into actionable solutions, troubleshoot and resolve issues, and stay current on evolving cloud technologies and compliance standards.
Provide requirement decomposition/definition and engineering expertise to assure program requirements are developed and sustained.
Prepare operating instructions and end user training.
Develop and implement cloud governance strategies, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
Lead efforts to automate deployment, monitoring, and management processes, enhancing efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
Act as a subject matter expert on cloud engineering best practices, participating in knowledge sharing and contributing to the company's technical community.
Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and architecture.