Senior Cloud Architect

<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!</div> <div> </div> </div></div><p>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.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead large technical initiatives and coordinate closely with development teams and project management</li> <li>Provide systems engineering, orchestration, and administrative support for many multi-cloud environments</li> <li>Assist technical delivery teams with the optimization of cloud system operations, resource utilization, and perform capacity analysis and planning</li> <li>Utilize Agile Scrum frameworks and methodologies in daily execution</li> <li>Assist the team by advising level of complexity and effort of technical implementation details</li> <li>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</li> <li>Advise more junior team members on proper implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of cloud systems and environments</li> <li>Assist with workload management, patch management, active directory management, onboarding, and any other troubleshooting, as required</li> <li>Provide detailed analysis and feedback to management and internal customers for escalated tickets</li> </ul> <p><em>The ideal candidate will be: </em></p> <ul> <li>Able to demonstrate the ability to develop a cloud architecture with various solutions to address computing, storage solutions, security measures, networking, and automation capabilities</li> <li>Have expertise in design, deployment, and management of AWS Cloud environments</li> <li>Understand at a deep level the structure and distribution of computing resources in Cloud Service Providers, such as AWS, Azure, OCI, Google</li> <li>Able to analyze and prioritize usage to most efficiently allocate funds and resources for the necessary workloads</li> <li>Maintain a customer-centric mindset with demonstrated passion for delivering customer value</li> <li>Able to engage with users in a professional manner and present technical concepts plainly to semi-technical customers</li> <li>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</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll need: </strong></p> <ul> <li>8 years of experience engineering and administrating IT systems hosted within AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP</li> <li>8 years of experience working with Linux or Windows Operating Systems</li> <li>5 years of technical leadership experience leading integrated project teams</li> <li>IAT Level III or IASAE II Certification (e.g.: CISSP, CISM, CASP+, CISA, CCNP Security, etc.)</li> <li>Experience with orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Terraform</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus points if you have: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field</li> <li>Professional Level Certification in AWS or Azure</li> <li>Demonstrated experience in deploying Infrastructure as Code within a cloud environment</li> <li>Prior cloud architecture experience</li> <li>Commercial or Private git experience</li> <li>Experience with DevOps (configuration management (Ansible (preferred), Chef, or Puppet), application deployment, security)</li> <li>Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)</li> <li>General understanding of Networking principles</li> </ul> <p><strong>Security Clearance: </strong></p> <p>Must have an active TS/SCI level clearance</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p> </p> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW225111203 BCX8" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW225111203 BCX8">As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of <strong>California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Marylan