Accenture Federal Services
Government & Public SectorDirect Greenhouse career site

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Pay
$108,400 – $203,400 per year
Location
Huntsville, AL · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Secret clearance
  • cloud platform engineering
  • system reliability
  • hybrid cloud infrastructure

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health

About the role

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to work in an Agile IT environment establishing a cloud-based technology in a government provided hybrid cloud environment with security, performance, operability, and scale for customers utilizing client's technology.

Your tasks will be ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud-based services and infrastructure for our clients or organization. You will work closely with development teams, system administrators, and customers to troubleshoot and resolve cloud-related issues, optimize cloud environments, and support the deployment and maintenance of cloud applications.

Additionally, you will help develop and articulate cloud technology roadmaps, driving strategic initiatives and ensuring alignment with business goals. Your expertise will help drive the successful adoption and utilization of cloud technologies.

The Work

  • Drive technical design through collaboration with leads and product owners to understand solution requirements and identify architectural patterns
  • Help other development and engineering teams resolve application to platform integration issues for Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services
  • Offer a thorough understanding of ML, data analysis, data visualization, and event-driven architectures.
  • Collaborate with end-users to optimize integration and user-experience.
  • Develop cloud reference architectures in support of customer requirements.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and articulate cloud technology roadmaps that drive strategic initiatives.
  • Ensure that cloud roadmaps align with business goals and support long-term growth and scalability.
  • Work closely with development teams to support the deployment and operation of cloud-based applications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve cloud-related issues and improve overall system performance.
  • Provide training and guidance to junior team members and customers on cloud technologies and best practices.

Here's what you need

  • Minimum 10 years of professional experience working with databases, computer, storage, and networks in Azure
  • A Microsoft Azure certification

Bonus points if you have

  • Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and under tight deadlines
  • Ability to articulate options and pros and cons of a different options
  • Experience in the defense IT contracting industry
  • Experience with code assistive and AI technologies to increase development speed and quality
  • Worked with container and serverless technologies (i.e., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions etc.)
  • Exposure to DevOps Methodologies by using orchestration tools (i.e., Chef, Ansible, etc.)

Security Clearance

  • Must have an active Secret clearance or higher

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:

$108,400—$203,400 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.

About Accenture Federal Services

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!

Read the original posting

From Accenture Federal Services's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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