Sr. DevOps Engineer

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Job Description:

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer. In this role you will be responsible for building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure utilizing knowledge in continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD), Cloud technologies, Container Orchestration and Security. Build and test end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that systems are safe against security threats.

Responsibilities include:

1. Leverage Amazon Web Services to build scalable data infrastructure
2. Automate deployments and system tasks across multiple environments
3. Work with technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Active Directory, Packer.
4. Design and build data services for consumption by clients and other services.

Here's what you need:

1. Academic degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, etc)
2. 8 years of experience in the IT field.
3. 4 years of experience with deploying and maintaining IT automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Gitlab Runner, Jenkins, Nexus, etc)
4. 4 years of Linux experience with RedHat, CentOS, Scientific Linux or similar Linux/Unix systems
5. 4 years of experience with system administrative scripting. (Bash, Python, etc)
6. 2 years of Kubernetes experience
7. 2 years of experience in Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure

Bonus points if you have:

1. AWS experience, specifically with Step Functions, Route53, API Gateway, SNS/SQS
2. Interested in containerized workloads
3. Interested in scaling systems on AWS
4. Experience with deployment and configuration of monitoring systems (Nagios, Cacti, etc)
5. Experience implementing security best practices in production environments
6. Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
7. Support mission-focused infrastructure to ensure performance and availability of system and environment.
8. Work directly with development team to ensure systems are deployed and monitored well
9. Willing to learn new technologies and share knowledge with the team
10. Identify areas of improvement and ways to continually improve the systems
11. Database administration (e.g. Postgres, ElasticSearch, Oracle)

Security Clearance:

1. An active TS clearance is required to start

Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York, or Washington State as set forth below:

Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role:

California: $122,600 - $234,900
Colorado: $122,600 - $202,900
New York: $113,500 - $234,900
Washington: $130,500 - $215,900

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