Senior Cloud Engineer

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be a key player in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud solutions that empower our clients to leverage the full potential of cloud technologies. You will be responsible for the development of a robust and scalable cloud infrastructure, serve as a technical mentor who guides, supports, and accelerates the professional growth of junior engineers, all while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery to the missions.

Work is 5 days onsite in Reston, VA.

The work you'll do:

• Support the design and implementation of cloud-based architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security in alignment with industry best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, troubleshoot issues, and optimize cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to a team of cloud engineers, reviewing their work, and helping them solve complex technical challenges.
• Engage with stakeholders to translate technical requirements into actionable solutions, troubleshoot and resolve issues, and stay current on evolving cloud technologies and compliance standards.
• Provide requirement decomposition/definition and engineering expertise to assure program requirements are developed and sustained.
• Prepare operating instructions and end user training.
• Develop and implement cloud governance strategies, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• Lead efforts to automate deployment, monitoring, and management processes, enhancing efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
• Act as a subject matter expert on cloud engineering best practices, participating in knowledge sharing and contributing to the company's technical community.
• Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and architecture.

Here's what you need:

• 10+ years of relevant IT, systems or infrastructure experience, including 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience.
• Experience designing, building, supporting and troubleshooting AWS cloud infrastructure in classified government environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda or CloudFormation.
• Experience supporting AWS GovCloud and/or other classified AWS environments.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible.
• Experience implementing cloud security controls, including IAM, SSO, federation, security baselines and account-auditing policies.
• Experience securing and hardening Linux or Windows cloud systems in accordance with applicable security and RMF requirements.
• Scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash or a similar language.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in complex cloud environments.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience supporting AWS environments across multiple classification domains.
• Experience creating, managing and hardening Amazon Machine Images or other cloud-based OS images.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or EKS.
• Experience with microservices or serverless architecture.
• Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• AWS cloud certification.
• Experience providing architecture guidance or supporting large-scale cloud-modernization initiatives.

Security clearance:

• Active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance is required.

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Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits.

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We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.