Sr. Cloud Network Engineer

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Job Description

Accenture Federal Services (AFS) is seeking a Sr. Cloud Network Engineer to design, provision, operate, and maintain multi-domain transport services available to Cloud tenants as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), while ensuring cybersecurity compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise cloud network architectures, primarily in AWS, with multicloud integrations as needed.
• Optimize and automate cloud network configurations to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Use DevSecOps principles and methodologies to build and manage secure and efficient cloud networking pipelines.
• Develop, deploy, and manage IaC solutions for provisioning, configuring, and monitoring cloud networks using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network and cloud performance issues, ensuring high availability and secure operations for mission-critical workloads.
• Define, document, and enforce cloud networking standards, best practices, and operational guidelines for the organization.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps, software development, and security teams to design secure and compliant cloud network solutions.

Here’s what you need:

• Experience with programming, scripting, or markup languages, that may include golang, Java, JavaScript, Bash, Ansible, Python, C, JSON, or YAML.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience with design, research, development, and implementation of network solutions, resolution of networking issues, load balancing, firewalls, routing, DNS
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience with provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of software and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) in a DevSecOps and continuous delivery environment using tools such as terraform, CloudFormation
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services; hands-on experience with AWS Direct Connect (DX) and TGWs
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience with Linux operating systems, command-line interfaces, firewalls, including Palo Alto, Cisco CSRs.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology related area of study or 6 years of experience working with IT systems may substitute academic degree
• Active TS w/ SCI eligibility clearance

Bonus points if you have:

• Experiencing configuring network and cloud devices in accordance with Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG).
• Understanding of cybersecurity best practices in a cloud-based environment required to obtain and maintain an Authorization to Operate (ATO).
• Compliance with DoDD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certifications (e.g., Security+ CE) or the ability to obtain these certifications within 30 days of the start date.
• Advanced cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate).
• Network certifications (e.g., Network+, CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, or equivalent).

Security Clearance:

• Active TS w/ SCI eligibility US Government security clearance is required

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