Cloud Platform Engineer
Accenture Federal ServicesAbout the role
Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our cloud platform team supporting government customers within Gov Cloud Environments. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure in a fast-paced, agile environment. This role has a strong DevOps engineering component, requiring expertise in automation, CI/CD pipeline development, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Candidates should be comfortable operating at the intersection of development and operations, building tooling and automation that enables rapid, secure delivery.
The ideal candidate will thrive in our centralized vision, decentralized command culture that emphasizes extreme ownership and a fail-fast, fail-forward mindset.
What you’ll need:
- Experience in cloud administration or engineering and/or infrastructure experience
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and/or DevOps practices
- Experience with containerization and/or orchestration technologies
Bonus Points if you have:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field
- Background in systems engineering, networking and security
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, Ansible, or similar
- Enterprise-scale cloud architecture design and implementation experience
- Production GitOps/CI-CD automation experience
- Container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration
- Network architecture: VPC design, hybrid connectivity, security groups, load balancing
- Identity and Access Management across cloud platforms
- CI/CD pipeline development and automation
- Linux/Unix system administration and automation experience
- Configuration management and infrastructure automation
- Monitoring, logging, and alerting system implementation
- Performance optimization and troubleshooting
- Database administration and data management
- Security hardening and compliance implementation
- Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- API integration and automation development
- Version control systems (Git) and collaborative development
Clearance:
- Must have an active Secret clearance; TS preferred
As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
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