Senior DevOps Engineer

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Job Description:  

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer.  In this role you will be responsible for building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure utilizing knowledge in continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD), Cloud technologies, Container Orchestration and Security. Build and test end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that systems are safe against security threats. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Leverage Amazon Web Services to build scalable data infrastructure 
• Automate deployments and system tasks across multiple environments 
• Work with technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Active Directory, Packer. 
• Design and build data services for consumption by clients and other services. 

Here's what you need: 

• Academic degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, etc) 
• 8 years of experience in the IT field. 
• 4 years of experience with deploying and maintaining IT automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Gitlab Runner, Jenkins, Nexus, etc) 
• 4 years of Linux experience with RedHat, CentOS, Scientific Linux or similar Linux/Unix systems 
• 4 years of experience with system administrative scripting. (Bash, Python, etc) 
• 2 years of Kubernetes experience
• 2 years of experience in Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure  

Bonus points if you have: 

• AWS experience, specifically with Step Functions, Route53, API Gateway, SNS/SQS 
• Interested in containerized workloads 
• Interested in scaling systems on AWS 
• Experience with deployment and configuration of monitoring systems (Nagios, Cacti, etc) 
• Experience implementing security best practices in production environments 
• Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders 
• Support mission-focused infrastructure to ensure performance and availability of system and environment. 
• Work directly with development team to ensure systems and deployed and monitored well 
• Willing to learn new technologies and share knowledge with the team 
• Identify areas of improvement and ways to continually improve the systems
• Database administration (e.g. Postgres, ElasticSearch, Oracle) 

Security Clearance: 

• An active TS clearance is required to start 

Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York or Washington as set forth below and information on benefits offered is here.      
  
Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role    
California: $122,600 - $234,900 
Colorado: $122,600 - $202,900 
New York: $113,500 - $234,900 
Washington: $130,500 - $215,900 

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