Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Accenture Federal ServicesAbout the role
<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer 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. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!</div> <div> </div> </div></div><p>The Senior Cyber Security Engineer will design, develop, and maintain reusable frameworks, libraries, APIs, and reference implementations for zero trust authentication and authorization.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Create developer guides, documentation, and best practices to enable smooth integration with security services. Implement and support fine-grained authorization patterns (entitlements, row-level security, ABAC).</li> <li>Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure security services meet performance, usability, and compliance requirements.</li> <li>Conduct code reviews and provide guidance to development teams on secure coding and integration practices.</li> <li>Research emerging zero trust and identity/access management technologies to recommend improvements.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Here's what you need:</strong></p> <ul> <li>7 years of experience as a cybersecurity engineer with a specialization in designing and building implementations of required security controls; and implementing continuous monitoring and auditing of solutions for compliance with security controls.</li> <li>Strong skills in specifying and implementing log collection into tools such as Splunk, and performing querying and analysis of aggregated logs to identify security-relevant anomalies or risks</li> <li>Strong experience in implementing security controls from government regulatory frameworks and security standards (e.g., NIST SP 800-53, RMF, ICD 503, FISMA, FedRAMP).</li> <li>Experience with implementing controls for cloud, container, and DevSecOps services and solutions within IL5 to IL6+ environments.</li> <li>Strong understanding of network protocols, operating systems, a
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