Cloud Data Engineer, CI/CD & Big Data Pipelines

Accenture PLC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Engineer to join our team in the San Antonio, TX area. The role focuses on building CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud environments, and implementing Infrastructure as Code to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

You will work with developers to automate deployment, optimize data pipelines using Hadoop, NiFi, Spark, and Accumulo, and continually improve performance and reliability in a mission‑critical environment with Top Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a cloud environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g.: Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with containerization (Docker).
• Experience with automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and optimize infrastructure and processes for rapid software delivery.
• Work with developers to integrate automation and improve deployment workflows.
• Monitor application performance to maintain high availability across environments.
• Foster collaboration and continuous improvement across engineering teams.
• Identify bottlenecks and champion containerization, configuration-as-code, and automated testing.
• Align tooling with business needs to accelerate feature delivery and ensure security.

Skills

Cloud experience

Containerization

Automated testing

CI/CD familiarity

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Engineer to join our team in the San Antonio, TX area. The role focuses on building CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud environments, and implementing Infrastructure as Code to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

You will work with developers to automate deployment, optimize data pipelines using Hadoop, NiFi, Spark, and Accumulo, and continually improve performance and reliability in a mission‑critical environment with Top Secret clearance.