Cloud Engineer

📋 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 seeking Cloud Engineers to join our team and support our client at Hill Air Force Base. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure for mission workloads in a fast-paced, agile environment, with room to grow into deeper platform and automation responsibilities over time. You will work within a small delivery team alongside Senior Cloud Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Security Engineers, executing infrastructure builds and operational tasks under an established architecture while building toward greater design ownership.

🎯 The Role

The ideal candidate brings hands-on cloud engineering experience across any major provider and is comfortable operating in a centralized vision, decentralized command culture that emphasizes solution ownership and a fail-fast, fail-forward mindset.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical government workloads
• Implement Infrastructure as Code for consistent, repeatable deployments (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
• Configure and manage identity, access, networking, and security controls across cloud environments
• Support CI/CD pipeline operations and containerized workload deployment (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Monitor infrastructure health, troubleshoot incidents, and drive resolution across Tier 1, Tier 2, and select Tier 3 issues
• Respond to monitoring alerts and escalate complex problems with clear technical context
• Support patching cycles, baseline updates, and configuration management activities
• Implement and maintain security controls, STIG compliance checks, and vulnerability remediation activities
• Support security audits and coordinate remediation with Security Engineering and ISSO teams
• Operate within an Agile framework — participate in sprints, standups, and retrospectives
• Document infrastructure decisions, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Collaborate with senior engineers, security teams, and government personnel to support platform delivery

📌 Required Qualifications

• Cloud engineering or infrastructure experience (Azure preferred)
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g.: Terraform, ARM templates, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
• Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration (e.g.: Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and operational tasks
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and/or incident response workflows

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Multi-cloud experience (AWS and Azure)
• Experience with identity and access management, networking fundamentals, and/or cloud security controls
• Experience with cloud migration or modernization projects
• CompTIA Security+ (current) or equivalent security certification
• Azure or AWS certifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field

🎁 Benefits

Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs 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. The base pay range for this position in these locations is $91,700 - $178,700 USD. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Must have an active Secret clearance; Top Secret preferred. Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.