Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> </div> <div>At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!</div> <div> </div> </div></div><p><strong>Job Description</strong>:</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Work is 5 days onsite in Reston, VA.</p> <p><strong>The work you'll do</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Support the design and implementation of cloud-based architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security in alignment with industry best practices.</li> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, troubleshoot issues, and optimize cloud infrastructure.</li> <li>Mentor and provide technical guidance to a team of cloud engineers, reviewing their work, and helping them solve complex technical challenges.</li> <li>Engage with stakeholders to translate technical requirements into actionable solutions, troubleshoot and resolve issues, and stay current on evolving cloud technologies and compliance standards.</li> <li>Provide requirement decomposition/definition and engineering expertise to assure program requirements are developed and sustained.</li> <li>Prepare operating instructions and end user training.</li> <li>Develop and implement cloud governance strategies, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.</li> <li>Lead efforts to automate deployment, monitoring, and management processes, enhancing efficiency and reducing manual intervention.</li> <li>Act as a subject matter expert on cloud engineering best practices, participating in knowledge sharing and contributing to the company's technical community.</li> <li>Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and architecture.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Here's what you need</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.</li> <li>10+ years of relevant IT, systems or infrastructure experience, including 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience.</li> <li>Experience designing, building, supporting and troubleshooting AWS cloud infrastructure in classified government environments.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda or CloudFormation.</li> <li>Experience supporting AWS GovCloud and/or other classified AWS environments.</li> <li>Strong infrastructure-as-code exp