Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will own infrastructure design decisions for mission-critical cloud environments. You will set engineering direction for infrastructure-as-code and architect solutions for compute, storage, and networking at enterprise scale.

What you will do

• Infrastructure design and architecture for mission-critical workloads
• Set infrastructure-as-code standards and technical direction
• Design disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity
• Implement security controls, STIG compliance, and vulnerability remediation
• Perform root-cause resolution for complex Tier 3 infrastructure incidents
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers

Required qualifications

• 5 years of cloud engineering or infrastructure experience
• Hands-on production work with infrastructure-as-code (e.g.: Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
• Hands-on production work with containerization and orchestration (e.g.: Docker, Kubernetes)
• Linux or Unix systems administration
• 2 years of experience mentoring or providing technical leadership to other engineers
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification or higher (Security+, CISSP, CASP, CCNA Security, or equivalent) or DoD 8140 equivalent
• Active TS clearance

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or 4+ years of relevant job or military experience in lieu of degree
• Experience designing solutions for multi-classification or cross-domain environments
• AWS or Azure certifications (Solutions Architect level or above)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD)
• Experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet) beyond Ansible
• Familiarity with National Security systems and air-gapped environments
• SCI preferred

Benefits

• Certifications
• Industry training
• Hands-on experience

Before you apply

• Active TS clearance required
• 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. Their 13,000+ people pursue technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.