Multi-Cloud Security & Compliance Engineer
Summary
Accenture Federal Services is hiring a cloud security engineer to secure Oracle Cloud (OCI) and GCP environments supporting US federal (VA) workloads — building a unified security posture, identity federation and least-privilege IAM, centralized security monitoring, and FedRAMP High / FISMA / NIST 800-53 compliance. Onsite in Washington, DC.
Responsible for securing our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. This role involves establishing and enforcing a unified security posture across OCI and GCP, overseeing permissions boundaries with Zero-Trust in mind, configuring centralized security monitoring, and ensuring all cloud deployments meet stringent federal compliance and security requirements, including FedRamp HIGH, FISMA and NIST 800-53.
Unified Security Posture
- Establish and enforce an integrated security posture spanning both GCP and OCI environments.
- Define security guardrails, standard configurations, and baseline security controls to ensure consistency across all cloud workstreams.
Identity Federation & Access Governance
- Manage and maintain identity federation between cloud environments, ensuring seamless, secure authentication and authorization flows.
- Implement and optimize IAM policies, role structures, and least‑privilege access controls across multi‑cloud deployments.
Centralized Security Monitoring
- Configure and operate centralized security monitoring solutions (e.g., GCP Security Command Center) to unify threat detection, vulnerability visibility, and compliance tracking across clouds.
- Integrate logs, alerts, and telemetry into enterprise monitoring systems to enable proactive incident response.
VA Compliance & Regulatory Alignment
- Ensure all deployments meet Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) compliance and security requirements, including relevant federal standards and program‑specific directives.
- Partner with security, governance, and audit teams to validate adherence to VA policies throughout delivery lifecycle stages.
Risk Management & Remediation
- Identify vulnerabilities, policy deviations, and architectural risks across cloud platforms.
- Recommend and implement remediation actions, ensuring continuous improvement of security posture.
Cross‑Team Collaboration
- Work closely with cloud engineering teams (OCI Migration, GCP Foundations, Data & AI) to embed secure‑by‑design principles throughout architectures and deployments.
- Provide subject matter expertise during design reviews, threat modeling discussions, and release planning.
Here's what you need:
- 5+ years in cloud security engineering, enterprise security architecture, or compliance programs.
- 3+ years of experience leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes.
- Proven ability to establish and maintain a unified security posture across multiple cloud service providers.
- Experience configuring and managing centralized cloud-native logging, anomaly detection, and security monitoring solutions.
- Skilled in implementing and managing vulnerability scanning workflows for compute instances and container images.
- Experience implementing security controls for cloud databases, including data masking, risk assessment, and activity auditing.
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, accounting/finance, information systems, or technical discipline.
As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
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