Senior Cloud Architect

📋 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 an experienced Senior Cloud Architect with technical expertise, strong business analysis, and customer engagement skills in support of a vital national security mission. You will help design cloud architecture and hybrid solutions, provide application support for customer requirements, and make recommendations based on both business analysis and technical acumen.

🎯 The Role

What you’ll do:

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead large technical initiatives and coordinate closely with development teams and project management
• Provide systems engineering, orchestration, and administrative support for many multi-cloud environments
• Assist technical delivery teams with the optimization of cloud system operations, resource utilization, and perform capacity analysis and planning
• Utilize Agile Scrum frameworks and methodologies in daily execution
• Assist the team by advising level of complexity and effort of technical implementation details
• Interface with customers executing large programs, sometimes supporting multiple vendors, government, and military personnel, that require various communication and collaboration mechanisms to meet mission objectives
• Advise more junior team members on proper implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems and environments
• Assist with workload management, patch management, active directory management, onboarding, and any other troubleshooting, as required
• Provide detailed analysis and feedback to management and internal customers for escalated tickets

📌 Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience engineering and administrating IT systems hosted within AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP
• 8 years of experience working with Linux or Windows Operating Systems
• 5 years of technical leadership experience leading integrated project teams
• IAT Level III or IASAE II Certification (e.g.: CISSP, CISM, CASP+, CISA, CCNP Security, etc.)
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Terraform

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Professional Level Certification in AWS or Azure
• Demonstrated experience in deploying Infrastructure as Code within a cloud environment
• Prior cloud architecture experience
• Commercial or Private git experience
• Experience with DevOps (configuration management (Ansible (preferred), Chef, or Puppet), application deployment, security)
• Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• General understanding of Networking principles

🎁 Benefits

The pay range for 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: $124,000 — $246,400 USD. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Must have an active TS/SCI level clearance. 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.