Federal - GIS DevOps Engineer

Job description

Organization: Accenture Federal Services

Location: Greenbelt, 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.

The GIS DevOps Engineer will work with multiple application teams to migrate systems into the DevOps provided service in support of the customer. This individual will work technical details with application teams to ensure they are migrated successfully. This individual will coordinate implementation with the application teams and Task 1 (Architecture) and Task 3 (Implementation). This individual will also take part in DevOps related training activities for application teams.

Key Responsibilities:

· Takes direction from Sr. Manager to migrate several applications into TI provided DevOps environments, either cloud or data-center based.
· Provides technical guidance to application teams to take advantage of cloud technologies, and implement cloud infrastructure, as needed.
· Works with application teams to document application internal/external interface requirements for Development, Testing, Staging and Production environments
· Works with application teams to ensure compliance with High Availability and Disaster Recovery related concept of operations.
· Implements middleware application specific requirements as needed, ensuring that integration across components in the TI provided environment is functional.
· Implements migration efforts with application teams, including data migration.
· Assists and takes part in training activities with application teams and ensures that DevOps provided processes/tools are effective. Suggests enhancements on behalf of application teams as needed.
· Performs other related duties as assigned.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

·  Bachelor's Degree and 14 years' experience / or Master's Degree and 12 years' experience / or Associate's Degree and 16 years' experience / 18 years with no Degree.
·  Minimum 1 year experience in the following:
·  Demonstrated experience in ESRI Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Spatial analytics and location mapping suite of applications
·  Hands on experience with ArcGIS suite of applications, tools and APIs
·  Hands on experience in custom application development integration using ArcGIS suite of tools and APIs
·  Experience migrating application teams from data center to data center and from data center to cloud.
·  Familiarity with both traditional and emerging system architectures (e.g., three tier, web services, micro-services, etc.)
·  Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment tools and methodologies, such as Enterprise GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible and Puppet.
·  Demonstrated understanding of IT management, administration, applications and system development lifecycles in a complex IT environment.
·  Proficient in Cloud technologies.

Preferred skills:

·  AWS Solutions Architect and/or AWS Developer Certification(s) preferred.
·  Application development experience preferred in one or more high-level languages (ex Java)

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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

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