Cloud Architect
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About the Role
At Accenture Federal Services, the focus is on helping the US federal government strengthen the nation, enhance safety, and improve lives. With a team of over 13,000 professionals, the company is dedicated to leveraging technology and ingenuity for clients in defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. Accenture Federal Services is recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, offering a collaborative and supportive environment for growth and learning through hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training. Join the team to drive positive, lasting change!
Job Description
As a Cloud Architect, you will be a key player in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud solutions. You will be responsible for developing a robust and scalable cloud infrastructure, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Support the design and implementation of cloud-based architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, troubleshoot issues, and optimize cloud infrastructure.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to a team of cloud engineers.
- Engage with stakeholders to translate technical requirements into actionable solutions and stay current on evolving cloud technologies and compliance standards.
- Provide requirement decomposition/definition and engineering expertise.
- Prepare operating instructions and end-user training.
- Develop and implement cloud governance strategies, ensuring compliance.
- Lead efforts to automate deployment, monitoring, and management processes.
- Act as a subject matter expert on cloud engineering best practices.
- Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and architecture.
Requirements
- Current certifications to meet 8140/8570 standards (e.g., Security+ or above)
- Minimum 10 years of experience as a Cloud Solution Architect or similar role, with a strong emphasis on cloud-based solution design and architecture.
- Extensive experience building and leading AWS cloud infrastructure solutions at scale across multiple classification domains (IL5 to IL6+) simultaneously.
- Extensive hands-on experience with leading cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, EBS, etc.
- Expert-level skills in creating, managing, and hardening desktop OS images across multiple classification domains in the cloud using AMIs.
- In-depth understanding of cloud architecture patterns, microservices, serverless computing, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and related technologies.