Senior Cloud Architect

What you'll do

• 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

The ideal candidate will be

• Able to demonstrate the ability to develop a cloud architecture with various solutions to address computing, storage solutions, security measures, networking, and automation capabilities
• Have expertise in design, deployment, and management of AWS Cloud environments
• Understand at a deep level the structure and distribution of computing resources in Cloud Service Providers, such as AWS, Azure, OCI, Google
• Able to analyze and prioritize usage to most efficiently allocate funds and resources for the necessary workloads
• Maintain a customer-centric mindset with demonstrated passion for delivering customer value
• Able to engage with users in a professional manner and present technical concepts plainly to semi-technical customers
• Able to balance multiple projects and be able to prioritize work to meet customer's needs * Able to bring innovative technical solution ideas to customer problems

What you'll need

• 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

Bonus points if you have

• 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

Security Clearance: Must have an active TS/SCI level 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:

$124,000—$246,400 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.