📋 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. We are recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, offering 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
AFS is seeking a Senior AWS DevSecOps Engineer to lead the design, build, and automation of our cutting-edge hybrid cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate is passionate about building secure, scalable, and highly available platforms on AWS and other cloud platforms utilizing cloud-native technologies. Your expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration with EKS, and CI/CD pipelines will be critical to empowering our development & data science teams with a robust, self-service platform. While our primary focus is AWS, experience in a hybrid environment with VMware is a plus.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- AWS Infrastructure & Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure environments primarily within AWS. Implement and manage core AWS services, including networking (VPC, Transit Gateway), Kubernetes (EKS), compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3, EBS), and databases (RDS). Architect and operate containerized workloads using Amazon EKS, including cluster management, scaling, and security.
- DevSecOps & Automation: Champion and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate all aspects of cloud resource provisioning and management. Develop, manage, and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and reliable software delivery. Master AWS IAM, creating and managing roles, policies, and permissions based on the principle of least privilege. Develop custom automation scripts and tooling (e.g., using Python, Go, or Bash) to streamline operations and eliminate manual processes, heavily focusing on the usage of API’s.
- Security & Compliance: Integrate security best practices directly into the platform and pipelines (DevSecOps). Implement and enforce security controls, encryption, and access management to meet compliance standards such as DISA STIGs. Collaborate with security teams to implement robust monitoring solutions.
- Team Enablement & Collaboration: Act as a cloud subject matter expert, providing guidance and support to development teams to optimize their use of the platform. Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate new cloud-native technologies and recommend solutions that enhance efficiency and capability. Champion foundational best practices, including Git workflows and the proficient use of AI tools to accelerate development and problem-solving.
📌 Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience (approximately 10 years in cloud/software engineering).
- Security+ certification
- Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Experience with Terraform or other similar languages
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, Linux/Unix administration, and security principles.
- Proficiency with Git
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline).
- Understanding of common authentication mechanisms, OIDC, OAuth2, LDAP, SAML.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Experience with VMware vSphere in a hybrid cloud context.
- Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.
- Familiarity with other public clouds (Azure, GCP). Experience contributing to open-source projects.
- Any of the following certification(s): AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate/Professional, GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA)
🎁 Benefits
Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. 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: $165,900 - $194,400 USD.
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
An active TS/SCI is required. 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.
