Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

The role

The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will establish cloud-based technology in a government hybrid cloud environment. This role involves ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud services and infrastructure while developing cloud technology roadmaps.

What you will do

• Drive technical design through collaboration with leads and product owners
• Help development and engineering teams resolve application to platform integration issues for PaaS and IaaS
• Collaborate with end-users to optimize integration and user-experience
• Develop cloud reference architectures in support of customer requirements
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and articulate cloud technology roadmaps
• Ensure cloud roadmaps align with business goals and support long-term growth and scalability
• Work closely with development teams to support the deployment and operation of cloud-based applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve cloud-related issues
• Provide training and guidance to junior team members and customers on cloud technologies and best practices

Required qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience working with databases, computer, storage, and networks in Azure
• A Microsoft Azure certification
• Must have an active Secret clearance or higher

Nice to have

• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and under tight deadlines
• Ability to articulate options and pros and cons of a different options
• Experience in the defense IT contracting industry
• Experience with code assistive and AI technologies to increase development speed and quality
• Worked with container and serverless technologies (i.e., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions etc.)
• Exposure to DevOps Methodologies by using orchestration tools (i.e., Chef, Ansible, etc.)

Benefits

• Certifications
• Industry training
• Hands-on experience

Before you apply

• Must have an active Secret clearance or higher
• Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
• Candidates currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration

About the company

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture that helps the US federal government. Its 13,000+ people work across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.