GCP Engineer

accenturefederalservices; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Google Cloud Platform Engineer to build and operate secure, scalable GCP environments for federal agencies. You will design infrastructure as code, automate deployments, and support reliable platform capabilities across projects.

As you gain experience, you may mentor engineers, shape reliability strategy, and influence cloud architecture and security practices in collaboration with product teams, security, and clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in GCP cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep).
• CI/CD, Git workflows, scripting, and modern software delivery.
• Docker, Kubernetes, and container platform experience.
• Understanding of cloud networking, identity/access, observability, security, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate cloud infrastructure across GCP.
• Create and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Deploy and operate containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, resilience, and backup.
• Apply DevSecOps, identity/access, secrets management, and security controls.
• Automate repetitive operations and support incident root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with product engineers, security teams, enterprise architects, and clients.
• Lead complex platform initiatives and establish reusable patterns.

Skills

GCP cloud engineering

DevOps

Platform engineering

SRE

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud networking

Security controls

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

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 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 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 will support federal agency modernization by building, deploying, automating, and maintaining secure and efficient GCP cloud environments. As your experience grows, you may mentor engineers, shape reliability strategy, and influence GCP cloud architecture and platform standards across teams or programs.

The work:

• Design, build, automate, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities across GCP 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 GCP cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or comparable work, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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 Google Cloud, or comparable providers.
• Experience with Helm, Argo CD, 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, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the Dis