DevOps Engineer

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The Accenture Federal Services (AFS) National Security Portfolio (NSP) is looking for DevSecOps Cloud Solution Engineers with strong technical expertise, business analysis, and customer engagement skills who are passionate about delivering capability to customers. If accepted, you will be part of an elite team of enthusiasts designing, building, and supporting the next generation of FinOps applications and services supporting several of the largest U.S. Government cloud networks.

In this role, you will be leveraging AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and/or Google Cloud Platform in support of federal customers. In this role, you will design, engineer, and deploy cloud infrastructure and services across multiple security domains, create reference architectures and cloud native designs, and enable provisioning automation as well as providing support for customer invoicing automation. Our ideal candidate is comfortable in technical and business requirements meetings and conversations, and self-motivated to pursue continuous improvement. A successful candidate will also enjoy solving interesting problems, and work with other members of our engineering teams supporting high profile, complex, technical deliverables. You will support capability deliveries meeting the ever-growing demand of Government customers for better Cloud FinOps.

Responsibilities include:

The items below provide a general outline of the roles a DevSecOps Engineer can expect working as a member of our project teams.

• Work alongside the product, testing, and development teams using the Agile methodology. DevSecOps team members help perform testing, assist installation troubleshooting, and have input into future feature enhancements.
• Perform installations on customer networks. Maintain customer accounts across one or more network security fabrics and customer domains.
• Manage software through its full lifecycle while installed in customer environments, including providing user support, triaging, and troubleshooting bugs, assisting in gathering requirements for future features, and coordinating software integration with other customer teams.
• Use automation tooling like CloudFormation, Terraform, and Docker to build robust cloud-native applications.
• Perform troubleshooting and investigate issues. Team members must be able to independently research and discover root causes to inform development team issue resolution.
• Obtain/maintain DoD 8570 Level I certifications and other applicable Computing Environment (CE) certifications requirements.

Here's what you need:

• Must currently reside in the Washington DC metro area or willing to relocate to be able to come into the office as needed
• 2 years of experience with Python scripts, ability to write small programs, visualize solutions, and debug code.
• 1 year of experience  with Microsoft Excel (required for cloud billing automation)
• 2+ years of industry experience working cloud-based solutions (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud technologies)
• Proficient with scripting in Bash, Groovy, or similar language
• 3 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code using tooling such as CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible

 

 

Bonus points if you have:

• Associate or Professional Level Cloud Certifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and 3 years of professional IT experience, or an extensive background of experience that merits equivalency
• Working knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker
• Experience with security in the cloud: Intrusion, penetration, and vulnerability scanning.
• Exposure to coding languages such as Java
• 8570 IAT Level I Certification and relevant Computing Environment Certification (preferably AWS) 
• Certified in one or more of top for CSP (e.g., AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP)
• Server / Application hardening or familiarity with Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) concepts 

Clearance: