Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS GovCloud & Security

Accenture-Federal-Services-2; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in Reston, VA seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to architect, implement, and secure cloud solutions for federal clients. You will mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical systems.

Work is five days onsite in Reston, contributing to governance, automation, and modernization while staying current with evolving cloud technologies and RMF standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years IT/infrastructure, with 5+ years hands-on AWS cloud engineering.
• Experience designing, building, supporting and troubleshooting AWS cloud infra in classified gov environments.
• Hands-on AWS services: EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFormation.
• GovCloud or classified AWS environments experience.
• IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible.
• Cloud security controls: IAM, SSO, federation, baselines, auditing.
• Hardening Linux/Windows cloud systems per RMF.
• Scripting with Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable cloud-based architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and troubleshoot issues.
• Mentor cloud engineers, review their work and help solve complex challenges.
• Translate requirements into actionable cloud solutions and governance.
• Provide decomposition and engineering to sustain program requirements.
• Prepare operating instructions and end user training.
• Develop and implement cloud governance strategies for compliance.
• Lead automation of deployment, monitoring, and management processes.
• Act as SME on cloud engineering best practices and share knowledge.
• Participate in risk management assessments and architecture.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

Terraform

Python scripting

Linux security

Kubernetes

Security RMF

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

EKS

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in Reston, VA seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to architect, implement, and secure cloud solutions for federal clients. You will mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical systems.

Work is five days onsite in Reston, contributing to governance, automation, and modernization while staying current with evolving cloud technologies and RMF standards.