Cloud Security Engineer Mid

📋 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

Provides comprehensive security engineering and sustainment support for the Agency's cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premise environments, ensuring optimal coverage, performance, and adherence to federal security standards and industry best practices. The role architects, deploys, and sustains secure baselines and configurations across CSD's cloud and on-premise systems, while maintaining SOPs, architectural diagrams, and system-controls documentation. This position also builds and operates continuous monitoring capabilities and supports cost-optimization recommendations to Government leadership.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Architect, engineer, deploy, and sustain secure, resilient, cost-effective cloud/hybrid-cloud/on-premise applications and systems; review and approve architectural designs for secure implementation.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain secure baselines for all CSD cloud and on-premise systems in accordance with federal mandates and organizational policy.
• Create and maintain SOPs, policies, architectural diagrams, code documentation, security baselines, and system controls documentation.
• Ensure comprehensive log collection/aggregation for monitoring, analysis, and compliance; continually optimize logging/monitoring to reduce noise and improve performance.
• Develop and maintain continuous monitoring capability covering system availability, performance, security, reporting, and response.
• Monitor cloud expenditures and provide leadership with cost-optimization recommendations; administer/operate/secure the hybrid-cloud monitoring tool suite.
• Conduct market research on new security solutions to prevent obsolescence; report cybersecurity incidents per federal regulation.
• Support audits of applications, systems, and services; serve as SME sustaining current cloud security knowledge and delivering training/knowledge-transfer.
• Manage access requests, change-impact analysis, and root-cause analysis for the hybrid-cloud environment; develop/maintain the ticketing/service-desk system.

📌 Required Qualifications

• US Citizen with an Active Top Secret clearance.
• 5 years of experience in system administration, database administration, network engineering, software engineering, or software development with a concentration in Cyber Security; or, with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field, 5 years of such experience.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Preferred certifications include AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (for engineers with SecDevOps responsibilities), and AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (for engineers with network security responsibilities).

🎁 Benefits

Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is $94,000 - $187,600 USD. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

US Citizen with an Active Top Secret clearance required.