Senior HPC 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 a Senior Cloud Engineer / HPC specialist to join our team and support our client at Hill AFB in Utah. This senior individual-contributor role owns the design and operation of high-performance compute infrastructure for mission workloads, from cluster architecture through GPU-accelerated job scheduling. You will independently make cluster sizing and architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with data platform and AI/ML teams to ensure infrastructure meets mission demand.

🎯 The Role

Success in This Role Means:

• HPC clusters are right-sized and cost-efficient, scaling compute and GPU resources to workload demand
• Job scheduling (Slurm, PBS, AWS Batch/ParallelCluster) is reliable and self-service, minimizing manual intervention
• GPU-accelerated workloads run efficiently, with proactive CUDA/cuDNN tuning and resource allocation
• Data pipeline teams (Kafka, Airflow, Spark, EMR) have a stable, well-documented compute foundation
• Security and accreditation requirements for classified HPC workloads are met without impeding mission delivery

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, size, tune, and operate HPC clusters for compute-intensive workloads
• Own HPC job scheduling infrastructure (Slurm, PBS, or equivalent)
• Architect/manage AWS ParallelCluster and/or AWS Batch for cloud-based HPC provisioning
• Design for parallel computing paradigms (MPI, shared-memory, distributed task orchestration)
• Configure industry GPU hardware/software for accelerated workloads
• Tune CUDA, cuDNN, and GPU libraries for scientific computing/data processing
• Optimize scheduling/resource allocation across CPU/GPU node pools
• Integrate HPC compute with data pipelines (Kafka, Airflow, Spark) and AWS data services (EMR, Redshift, Glue)
• Ensure HPC infrastructure meets security controls/accreditation for classified environments
• Mentor engineers building HPC/GPU-compute familiarity
• Document cluster architecture decisions, runbooks, and operational procedures

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5 years’ cloud engineering/infrastructure experience, including 2 years focused on HPC cluster design/operations
• Experience with HPC job scheduling systems (Slurm, PBS, or equivalent)
• Proficiency with AWS ParallelCluster and/or AWS Batch for cloud-based HPC provisioning
• Understanding of parallel computing paradigms (e.g.: MPI, shared-memory, distributed task orchestration)
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices (e.g.: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps)
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computational Science, Engineering, or related field (certifications considered in lieu)
• Hands-on experience with industry GPU hardware/software ecosystems
• Familiarity with CUDA, cuDNN, and GPU-accelerated libraries
• Experience designing/operating data pipelines (Kafka, Airflow, Spark)
• Familiarity with AWS data services (EMR, Redshift, Glue)
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect or Advanced Networking)

🎁 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: $109,500 — $224,200 USD

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Must have an active Secret clearance; Top secret preferred