Job Summary:
Accenture Federal Services is dedicated to helping the US federal government enhance national security and improve lives through technology. The Senior Cloud Engineer will optimize system performance, implement security controls, and ensure operational reliability across cloud environments while collaborating with various teams to deliver robust solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Analyze the technical needs of an organization and propose suitable cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with development teams to create and implement cloud solutions that meet business goals.
• Implement least-privilege IAM, role-based access, and just-in-time elevation for admin actions.
• Build and maintain IaC modules (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) for standardized provisioning of VPC/VNet, subnets, gateways, compute, storage, managed databases, messaging, and IAM roles.
• Implement service enablement patterns that accelerate team onboarding.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging cloud technologies.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years in cloud engineering or similar role.
• 5 + years of experience in the following areas:
• Proficiency in at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS, and/or GCP) with strong understanding of core services (compute, storage, networking, identity).
• Experience with service catalogs (AWS Service Catalog, Azure Blueprints/Policy + DevOps Templates, GCP Catalog) and account/subscription vending.
• Experience with Policy as Code (OPA/Gatekeeper/Conftest), pre-commit hooks, and compliance automation.
• Experience with Serverless (Lambda, Azure Functions, and/or Cloud Functions) and event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to data services (RDS/SQL MI/Cloud SQL, Redis/Cache, messaging/queues like SQS/Service Bus/Pub/Sub, streaming like Kafka/Kinesis/Event Hubs).
• Knowledge of CNAPP/CSPM and/or cloud-native security tools (Defender for Cloud, Security Command Center, and/or AWS Security Hub/GuardDuty).
• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance minimum, and must be willing to be immediately upgraded to TS/SCI with Poly
Preferred:
• Experience working on an Agile team.
• Experience supporting the Open-Source Network.
• Azure: AZ 104 (Administrator), AZ 305 (Architect), AZ 400 (DevOps)
• AWS: Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), SysOps Administrator, Developer Associate
• GCP: Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect/DevOps Engineer
• Kubernetes: CKA/CKAD
Company:
Accenture Federal Services is a leading US federal services company and subsidiary of Accenture. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Arlington, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.