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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.
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…