Cloud Engineer

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About the role

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture, as a Cloud Engineer in El Segundo, CA. You’ll be part of our secure cloud platform team supporting government customers within Gov Cloud Environments. This role focuses on operating, maintaining, and supporting enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and platform services in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will design, implement, and maintain secure cloud-based systems and applications through infrastructure as code and automation scripting, ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will thrive in our centralized vision, decentralized command culture that emphasizes solution ownership and a fail-fast, fail-forward mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable cloud architectures across multiple platforms based on program templates and established best practices.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code for consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Implement DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable delivery.
• Configure and optimize cloud security controls and compliance measures.
• Design cloud native disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and implement performance optimizations.
• Basic scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for operational tasks.
• Experience with version control systems (Git).
• Implement and maintain security controls in cloud environments under guidance of senior team members.
• Support security audits, STIG compliance checks, and vulnerability remediation activities.
• Assist with access control management, encryption key operations, and certificate management.
• Contribute to security documentation and operational procedure maintenance.
• Monitor infrastructure for security alerts and coordinate remediation with security teams.
• Operate within Agile framework – participate in sprints, stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning sessions.
• Take ownership of assigned operational tasks and platform components.
• Embrace fail-fast mentality – identify improvement opportunities, propose solutions, iterate quickly.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives, automation development, and operational efficiency.
• Document lessons learned and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
• Lead and influence multi-disciplinary teams in a matrixed environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including government personnel, contractors, and military staff.
• Seek mentorship and develop technical skills toward senior engineering capabilities.
• Support cross-training initiatives and assist with onboarding new team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field, or 4 years equivalent work or military service; relevant technical certifications may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 5+ years of cloud engineering and infrastructure, and cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or multi-cloud).
• 3+ years experience implementing secure cloud architectures for enterprise or government environments.
• 3+ years of experience troubleshooting DNS, VPN, HTTPS, and networking configurations.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.
• CompTIA Security+ (current) or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS Solutions Architect certification, or ability to obtain required AWS certifications within 90 days of employment.

Skills

• Bonus points if you have:
• AWS familiarity: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, security services.
• Azure experience: Azure Government Cloud, Azure DevOps.
• Oracle experience.
• Experience with cloud migration or modernization projects.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline operations and support.
• Familiarity with container orchestration operations (Kubernetes administration).
• Experience with VPN, firewall rules, security groups, load balancers.
• Database operational support experience with backups, performance monitoring, basic administration.
• SIEM tool familiarity (Splunk, CloudWatch Logs, or similar).
• Certifications:
• ITIL Foundation or similar service management certification.
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD).
• Agile/Scrum certifications.

Clearance

Must be a US citizen with an active TS security clearance with SCI eligibility; active TS/SCI preferred.

Pay

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: $100,200—$230,400 USD.

Benefits

Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. 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.