Senior Cloud Architect

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.

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

Requirements

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; Must have an active TS/SCI level clearance

Nice to 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