Federal - DevOps/Technical Architecture Manager

Job description

Organization: Accenture Federal Services
Location: Suitland, MD

Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, is a U.S. company with offices in Arlington, Virginia. Accenture's federal business has served every cabinet-level department and 30 of the largest federal organizations. Accenture Federal Services transforms bold ideas into breakthrough outcomes for clients at defense, intelligence, public safety, civilian and military health organizations.

We believe that great outcomes are everything. It's what drives us to turn bold ideas into breakthrough solutions. By combining digital technologies with what works across the world's leading businesses, we use agile approaches to help clients solve their toughest problems fast—the first time. So, you can deliver what matters most.

Count on us to help you embrace new ways of working, building for change and put customers at the core. A wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, we bring over 30 years of experience serving the federal government, including every cabinet-level department. Our 7,200 dedicated colleagues and change makers work with our clients at the heart of the nation's priorities in defense, intel, public safety, health and civilian to help you make a difference for the people you employ, serve and protect.

- Establish Accenture as a technology thought leader in the marketplace.
- Define, design, build, deliver and run the engagements, DevOps platform and tooling for the overall system architecture including focus on development, testing, and execution architectures.
- Define and drive the right solution to meet the technical performance, scalability, flexibility, operations, and capability needs.
-Define and ensure technology standards are followed and evolve over time.
-Conduct architecture assessments and define solutions.
-Work with project management teams to align scheduling of technical implementations.
-Work with development teams to establish source code management and development best practices.
-Work with client technical teams to establish overall system architecture best practices.
-Provide architecture Quality Assurance reviews for proposals and ongoing engagements.
-Support the technology solutioning and estimating in proposals, planning, and pricing.
-Manage projects and project teams.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor's Degree or 3 years related experience
·  5 yr experience with components in modern web architectures.
·  5 yr experience with implementation and integration of automated deployment tools, such as Jenkins, GitLab.
·  5 yr experience managing source code repositories, such as Subversion, including branch and merge management.
·  2 yr experience with scripting languages including Python, Perl, Unix/Linux Shell (bash, csh, other) or PowerShell.
·  2 yr experience operating, monitoring and reporting on modern web systems and the underlying infrastructure. Preferred Qualifications:

·  Experience with the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform.
·  Experience with the design, build, implementation of automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
·  Experience with either virtualization technologies (VMWare, HyperV) and/or container technologies (Docker, Mesos) and/or cloud technologies (OpenStack, AWS, Azure).
·  Experience with performance and load testing tools, such as JMeter and Load Runner.
·  Experience within an Agile release methodology.
·  Strong organizational skills and the ability to multitask.
·  Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly changing environment.
An active security clearance or the ability to obtain one may be required for this role.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Accenture is a Federal Contractor and an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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