Multi-Cloud Security & Compliance 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 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. 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.

🎯 The Role

Responsible for securing our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. This role involves establishing and enforcing a unified security posture across OCI and GCP, overseeing permissions boundaries with Zero-Trust in mind, configuring centralized security monitoring, and ensuring all cloud deployments meet stringent federal compliance and security requirements, including FedRamp HIGH, FISMA and NIST 800-53.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce an integrated security posture spanning both GCP and OCI environments.
• Define security guardrails, standard configurations, and baseline security controls to ensure consistency across all cloud workstreams.
• Manage and maintain identity federation between cloud environments, ensuring seamless, secure authentication and authorization flows.
• Implement and optimize IAM policies, role structures, and least‑privilege access controls across multi‑cloud deployments.
• Configure and operate centralized security monitoring solutions (e.g., GCP Security Command Center) to unify threat detection, vulnerability visibility, and compliance tracking across clouds.
• Integrate logs, alerts, and telemetry into enterprise monitoring systems to enable proactive incident response.
• Ensure all deployments meet Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) compliance and security requirements, including relevant federal standards and program‑specific directives.
• Identify vulnerabilities, policy deviations, and architectural risks across cloud platforms.
• Recommend and implement remediation actions, ensuring continuous improvement of security posture.
• Work closely with cloud engineering teams (OCI Migration, GCP Foundations, Data & AI) to embed secure‑by‑design principles throughout architectures and deployments.
• Provide subject matter expertise during design reviews, threat modeling discussions, and release planning.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud security engineering, enterprise security architecture, or compliance programs.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes.
• Proven ability to establish and maintain a unified security posture across multiple cloud service providers.
• Experience configuring and managing centralized cloud-native logging, anomaly detection, and security monitoring solutions.
• Skilled in implementing and managing vulnerability scanning workflows for compute instances and container images.
• Experience implementing security controls for cloud databases, including data masking, risk assessment, and activity auditing.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, accounting/finance, information systems, or technical discipline.

🎁 Benefits

Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. The base pay range for this position 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 is $133,700 - $165,200 USD. You can find more information on benefits here.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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. Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.