Kubernetes Engineer – Federal Cloud & Security

Accenture Federal Services; Aberdeen (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in the United States is seeking a Mid-Level Kubernetes Engineer to design and operate container orchestration platforms for defense, civilian, and public health clients. You will ensure reliability, security, and performance of production workloads across on-prem or hardened cloud environments, following DoD security requirements.

Join a team delivering scalable Kubernetes solutions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, service meshes, and infrastructure-as-code while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• 4 years of experience operating Kubernetes in production, including cluster administration, workload scheduling, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux systems fundamentals and scripting ability (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Hands‑on experience with Helm, Kustomize, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform).
• Solid understanding of container networking, RBAC, and Kubernetes security primitives (Pod Security Standards, network policies, secrets management).
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, or on‑prem/bare‑metal) supporting federal client production workloads.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for containerized application deployment, including GitOps workflows.
• Harden clusters to meet federal security requirements, including DISA STIGs, Pod Security Standards, network policies, and RBAC configuration.
• Implement and manage service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), ingress controllers, and secrets management (Vault, Sealed Secrets, or cloud‑native equivalents).
• Build observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd/Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry) to monitor cluster and application health.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize) for repeatable, auditable deployments.
• Troubleshoot cluster and application incidents, from networking and scheduling issues to resource contention and failed deployments.
• Partner with application development teams to containerize services, define resource requests/limits, and adopt Kubernetes‑native patterns (health checks, autoscaling, rolling deployments).
• Support ATO and continuous monitoring processes, including vulnerability scanning and remediation for container images and cluster configurations.
• Document platform architecture, operational runbooks, and onboarding guides for application teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Bash

Python

Go

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

RBAC

Pod Security Standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Istio

Linkerd

EKS

GKE

AKS

OpenShift

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in the United States is seeking a Mid-Level Kubernetes Engineer to design and operate container orchestration platforms for defense, civilian, and public health clients. You will ensure reliability, security, and performance of production workloads across on-prem or hardened cloud environments, following DoD security requirements.

Join a team delivering scalable Kubernetes solutions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, service meshes, and infrastructure-as-code while