Cloud Administrator

📋 Job Overview

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!

🏢 About Accenture Federal Services

Accenture Federal Services is 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.

🎯 The Role

The Cloud Administrator provides operational support across cloud environments, ensuring stable, secure, and well‑maintained infrastructure. This role focuses heavily on administering and operating the Turbot platform, supporting migrations, refining cloud environments, and coordinating O&M activities with system and project teams.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Use automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GraphQL, or similar.
• Install, upgrade, configure, and operate the Turbot solution for AWS.
• Configure and maintain core services including authentication, monitoring, security, and configuration management to support environment stand‑up and migrations.
• Support deployment and configuration of monitoring tools for AWS/Azure across Windows and Linux.
• Create and maintain automation scripts and gold images.
• Report on infrastructure health and maintain production operations manuals (POMs).
• Use enterprise cloud tools, CSP portals, and approved TRM tooling to support VA applications.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or 10+ years of equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience with Turbot (Security & Compliance Governance).
• 6+ years of hands‑on experience with AWS operational tools and cloud compliance.
• Current AWS or Azure certification (e.g., AWS CCP/CSA, AZ‑900, AZ‑104).
• Experience with automation (Ansible, Git), Linux troubleshooting, networking, scripting, and systems administration.
• Strong understanding of system administration fundamentals and secure environment practices.
• Experience with Terraform and/or GraphQL.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Monitoring & performance tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics
• Security tools: Nessus, NetSkope, eMASS, Centrify
• Governance: Turbot (highly preferred)
• DevOps/Ops: Ansible, ServiceNow, Splunk, Jira ServiceDesk, GitHub, Cloudockit, ScienceLogic
• Containerization: Red Hat OpenShift
• Migration tools: CloudKey, Jira
• Reporting: Apptio, CLS
• AWS/Azure native tools: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, KMS, IAM, VPC, Azure Monitor, AIP, Key Vault, RBAC, ARM
• ITIL knowledge
• Nessus remediation; Linux/Windows systems administration
• Security standards, compliance, and threat mitigation
• SOP and technical documentation writing
• Federal contracting experience
• Configuration tools: Chef, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes

🎁 Benefits

Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. The base pay range for this position in 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 $91,300 - $184,900 USD. You can find more information on benefits here.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

US Citizenship required.