Senior DoD Security Engineer - RMF/JSIG, SIEM & Cloud

Accenture Federal Services; Clearfield (UT); On-site; USD 116,900 - 243,100; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in Utah seeks a highly skilled Security Engineer to join our team supporting DoD programs. You will architect, engineer, and deploy advanced cybersecurity solutions while ensuring RMF and JSIG compliance across cloud and on-premises environments.

This role emphasizes security as code, automation, incident detection, and risk remediation. You will collaborate with ISSM/ISSO, develop runbooks, and mentor teams on secure design principles while maintaining thorough

Qualifications

• DoD IASAE Level II certification or ability to obtain within 3 months of hire.
• 5+ years of security engineering or similar experience (DevOps, security background).
• Hands-on experience with SIEM administration, data normalization, pipelines, and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Support, administer, and maintain cybersecurity tools and platforms (Splunk, Nessus/ACAS, e.g., CIM alignment, dashboards, alerts).
• Integrate monitoring tools into SIEM and security workflows.
• Enable security-as-code via automation (Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Develop detections, improve telemetry, tune alerts, and support investigations.
• Architect, deploy solutions for vulnerability management, logging, patch management, and risk remediation.
• Engineer security requirements for DoD cloud environments (AWS, Azure) per RMF/JSIG.
• Improve system security posture through baseline configurations and access controls.
• Mentor teams on secure design principles; maintain SOPs and runbooks.

Skills

Security engineering

RMF/JSIG knowledge

Incident detection & response

Automation scripting

Cloud security

Education

DoD IASAE Level II (CASP+/CISSP)

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Nessus/ACAS

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in Utah seeks a highly skilled Security Engineer to join our team supporting DoD programs. You will architect, engineer, and deploy advanced cybersecurity solutions while ensuring RMF and JSIG compliance across cloud and on-premises environments.

This role emphasizes security as code, automation, incident detection, and risk remediation. You will collaborate with ISSM/ISSO, develop runbooks, and mentor teams on secure design principles while maintaining thorough