Cybersecurity Engineer II

About

Accenture Federal Services is searching for a Cybersecurity Engineer II to design, develop, and maintain reusable frameworks, libraries, APIs, and reference implementations for zero trust authentication and authorization.

Responsibilities

• Create developer guides, documentation, and best practices to enable smooth integration with security services.
• Implement and support fine-grained authorization patterns (entitlements, row-level security, ABAC).
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure security services meet performance, usability, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct code reviews and provide guidance to development teams on secure coding and integration practices.
• Research emerging zero trust and identity/access management technologies to recommend improvements.

What you'll need to succeed

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in software engineering, security engineering, or related roles.
• Bachelor's degree OR experience may use in lieu of degree.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying application components leveraging AWS cloud services in IL6+ classified environments.
• Proven experience implementing authentication and authorization frameworks (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML).
• Hands-on expertise with fine-grained access control models (entitlements, row-level security, ABAC).
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python) for building frameworks and libraries.
• Solid experience with zero trust architecture and principles.
• Experience in creating developer documentation and integration guides.
• Strong grasp of secure coding practices and software development lifecycle (SDLC) security.

Clearance

• An active TS/SCI with polygraph is required