Cloud Security Engineer – DoD | TS/SCI with Poly

Accenture PLC; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 106,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in Columbia, MD seeks a Security Delivery Practitioner to assess and secure cloud environments for US federal government missions. You will review C&A documentation, contribute to risk management, and implement information security across cloud architectures.

Applicants should hold a DoD 8570 IAM/IAT certification and have experience with RMF/NIST RMF processes, along with strong communication skills to work with development teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 3 years’ experience or 5 years’ work experience equivalent.
• 3 years of IT, cyber security, and/or CNO software development or security research.
• 3 years of network experience (including at least 1 year of cloud experience) in large-scale global environment.
• Active DoD 8570 IAM Level I or (IAT) level II Certification (e.g.: Sec+)

Responsibilities

• Perform or review technical security assessments of cloud environments to identify vulnerabilities.
• Validate cloud security requirements definitions and analysis, and establish secure cloud system designs.
• Design, develop, implement, and/or integrate IA and security systems for cloud networking, computing, and enclave environments.
• Build IA into cloud systems deployed to operational environments.
• Assist cloud architects and developers in applying information security functionality to ensure policy compliance.
• Support building secure cloud architectures and enforce trusted relations among external systems.
• Assess and mitigate cloud system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Contribute to security planning, risk analysis, and RMF/C&A activities for cloud systems.

Skills

Cloud security

Network security

Security assessments

DoD 8570 IAM/IAT

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Equivalent work experience

Tools

XACTA

eMASS

NIST RMF

NISCAP

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in Columbia, MD seeks a Security Delivery Practitioner to assess and secure cloud environments for US federal government missions. You will review C&A documentation, contribute to risk management, and implement information security across cloud architectures.

Applicants should hold a DoD 8570 IAM/IAT certification and have experience with RMF/NIST RMF processes, along with strong communication skills to work with development teams.