Accenture
Cloud Security Engineer Mid
$94K–$188K
Leesburg, VA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Leesburg, VA
Leesburg, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 5 years; the posting lists the experience fields and separately states the bachelor's-degree alternative, also requiring 5 years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field (in the stated alternative).
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must have US work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.
About the job
Architects, deploys, and sustains secure cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises systems for a federal agency, including security baselines, monitoring, documentation, and cost optimization.
What you'll do
- Engineer and maintain secure systems and baselines; review architectural designs for secure implementation.
- Develop security documentation and continuous monitoring, including log collection, compliance reporting, and incident response.
- Support audits, access and change requests, root-cause analysis, monitoring-tool operations, and cloud cost-optimization recommendations.
What they ask for
- US citizen with an active Top Secret clearance.
- Five years of experience in system administration, database administration, network engineering, software engineering, or software development concentrated in cybersecurity.
- Alternatively, with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, five years of the stated experience.
Nice to have
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty; AWS Certified SysOps Administrator; AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional for SecDevOps responsibilities; AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty for network security responsibilities.
Pay
$94,000 — $187,600 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS
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