Cloud Platform Engineer

Engg; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Cloud and Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP. You will develop infrastructure as code, improve CI/CD pipelines, and ensure security and observability.

The role involves working with product engineers and security teams to set reusable patterns, mentor engineers, and influence platform reliability across programs.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP or other major cloud platforms.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, scripting/automation.
• Docker, Kubernetes, or container orchestration experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• Create and maintain infrastructure as code and deployment automation.
• Lead platform initiatives and mentor engineers as experience grows.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security practices

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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. 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. Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

You are:

A cloud and platform engineer who builds the reusable infrastructure, automation, and engineering foundations that product teams rely on. You enjoy making environments secure, repeatable, observable, reliable, and easier for developers to use. You may be developing your cloud/DevOps foundation or already be ready to independently own platform components, pipelines, environments, or reliability workstreams. As your experience grows, you may lead platform designs, define infrastructure and DevSecOps patterns, mentor engineers, shape reliability strategy, and influence cloud architecture and platform standards across teams or programs.

The work:

Design, build, automate, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, or comparable environments. Create and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or comparable technologies. Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, deployment automation, environment provisioning, and release controls. Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, managed container platforms, or comparable technologies. Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, resilience, backup/recovery, and reliability practices for cloud platforms and applications. Apply DevSecOps, identity/access, secrets management, network, configuration, patching, and security controls throughout platform engineering. Automate repetitive operational work using scripting and engineering tools and support incident troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis. Use AFS‑approved AI‑assisted engineering tools and workflows to accelerate automation, troubleshooting, documentation, code development, and platform analysis while validating outputs. Partner with product engineers, Quality Engineers, Enterprise Architects, security teams, delivery leaders, and client stakeholders. As your experience grows, lead complex platform initiatives, establish reusable patterns and standards, mentor engineers, and shape cloud/platform architecture and reliability practices.

Here's what you need:

Professional experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or comparable work, or equivalent practical experience. Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or another major cloud platform. Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or a comparable technology. Experience with CI/CD, Git‑based workflows, scripting/automation, and modern software delivery practices. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container platforms, or comparable workload orchestration technologies. Understanding of cloud networking, identity/access, observability, security, reliability, and operational troubleshooting. For candidates with deeper experience, demonstrated ability to lead complex platform initiatives, define standards, mentor others, and influence architecture and reliability decisions across teams.

Bonus points if you have:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience. Cloud certifications from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or comparable providers. Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, service mesh, policy as code, secrets management, or platform engineering products. Experience with SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, capacity planning, FinOps, resilience engineering, or disaster recovery. Experience with federal cloud security, zero trust, FedRAMP‑oriented environments, or regulated systems. Ability to collaborate with development and security teams and take increasing ownership of platform components or cloud workstreams. Previous federal consulting, government, or mission‑oriented delivery experience.

Eligibility Requirements:

U.S. Citizenship required. Ability to work with federal clients and comply with applicable AFS, client, security, and program requirements. Ability to work in a hybrid, remote, or client‑site environment as program needs require.

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here.

We accept applications on an on‑going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is: $83,600 - $196,000 USD

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