Cyber Security Engineer

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security systems and data protection measures
• Conduct regular security audits, penetration tests, and vulnerability assessments
• Monitor systems for anomalies, investigate security incidents, and apply necessary patches or configuration changes
• Develop and maintain incident response plans to ensure business continuity
• Create, update, and enforce security policies, standards, and operating procedures
• Write clear and accessible documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Facilitate discussions across engineering teams, ISSOs, assessors, and technical stakeholders
• Review and interpret architecture documentation and design diagrams
• Apply knowledge of cloud, networking, IAM, logging, and security control concepts
• Leverage version control, CI/CD pipeline concepts, and vulnerability management workflows
• Support tracking of security findings from discovery through remediation
• Contribute to federal security compliance activities, including ATO lifecycle and POA&M management
• Participate in Scrum and Agile team activities

Here's what you need

• Ability to write clear security and compliance documentation
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to read and discuss architecture documentation and diagrams
• Basic understanding of cloud, networking, IAM, security, and logging concepts
• Familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and vulnerability management workflows

Preferred qualifications

• Experience tracking security findings from vulnerability scanning through remediation
• Hands-on experience with federal security compliance, including the ATO lifecycle and POA&M management
• Experience participating in Scrum activities

Eligibility requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Must have active Top Secret clearance

Pay and benefits

As required by local law, 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 shown below.

Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

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:

$106,300 - $206,200 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included.

This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.