Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Accenture Federal Services

Fort Detrick, MD

About the Job

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

Join Accenture Federal Services to do the work you love in an inclusive, collaborative, and caring community, where you can be empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

The Work:

The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) works as a liaison between development and IT operations to ensure the efficient functioning of computer systems. The SRE will oversee the Tier 1-3 Help Desk to drive incident and outage management, investigation, and restoration activities. Create alerts from the ground-up to monitor and manage systems trends to improve performance, prevent incidents, and leverage SOPs to respond to system alerts. Analyze, track, and facilitate acceptance of changes to production environments. Operate information technology production services according to management protocols and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Able to provide solutioning and improvement proposals across teams and leadership. Document outcomes of incidents and assess end user impacts of technical incidents.

- Prepare validated Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVAs) for fielded software and distribute upon approval to System Administrators (SAs).

- Monitor, escalate, and respond to trouble tickets to help ensure timely resolution and support of SAs.

- Investigate and attempt to resolve critical issues when they cannot be immediately resolved by the COTS vendor or other mission partner program offices.

- Create and track vendor and mission partner program office help desk tickets and associate with program tickets to ensure tracking of resolutions across programs.

- Provide instructions to resolutions system tickets/issues/problems

- Support the IAVA process to include the identification, research, installation, regression testing, and packaging for distribution of all applicable IAVA patches.

- Plan and perform fault management, configuration management, configuration control, and performance monitoring

- Conduct installation, activation, back-up, deactivation, and restart of network resources/services

- Instruct users on the installation and support of software applications and related software/capability solutions

- Provide technical assistance, support, and advice to customers/users via telephone, video chat, email, text messaging, ticket entry, and MS Teams collaboration worldwide or onsite visit as directed.

- Provide instruction regarding how to maintain the suite of capabilities, how to plan, coordinate, and implement security measures, how to navigate troubleshooting techniques, and how to resolve complex issues in collaboration with SAs.

Here's What You Need:

- Demonstrated experience with a variety of operating systems, storage subsystems, and networking environments.

- Demonstrated experience implementing best practices for availability, reliability and scalability, with varied interests in algorithms and distributed systems.

- Experience provide support to service engineers with customer incidents.

- Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript

- Experience with distributed storage technologies such as NFS, HDFS, Ceph, and Amazon S3, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)

- US Citizenship required.

- Secret clearance required or ability to obtain.

Bonus Points If You Have:

- Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement

- Demonstrated experience as primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.

- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline

- Previous success in technical engineering

- Coding experience beyond simple scripts

- Experience with MHS applications, tools, and network infrastructures.

- Experience supporting Army medical applications on Army networks.

Location: Onsite at Fort Detrick, MD

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, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, 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.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:

$76,300—$154,800 USD

What We Believe

We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.

Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Accenture Federal Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

For details, view a copy of the Accenture Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy Statement.

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If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please review below for important additional information.

Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed in the job posting, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation. Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Requesting An Accommodation

Accenture Federal Services is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture Federal Services and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.

If you are being considered for employment opportunities with Accenture Federal Services and need an accommodation for a disability or religious observance during the interview process or for the job you are interviewing for, please speak with your recruiter.

Other Employment Statements

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.

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

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.

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