Kubernetes Engineer — Federal Security & On-Prem

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

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Mid-Level Kubernetes Engineer to design, deploy, and operate container orchestration platforms for defense, civilian, and public health clients. You’ll implement CI/CD pipelines, harden clusters to meet federal security standards, and enable teams to adopt Kubernetes patterns safely at scale.

You'll work across on-prem, air-gapped, or hardened cloud environments, ensure observability and security, and collaborate with development teams to containerize services

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
• 4 years 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
• Must be a U.S. Citizen

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, or on-prem) for 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 IaC (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize) for repeatable 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
• Support ATO and continuous monitoring processes, including vulnerability scanning and remediation for container images and cluster configurations
• Document platform architecture, runbooks, and onboarding guides

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Linux fundamentals

Scripting (Bash/Python/Go)

Security mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS/OpenShift)

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

Istio

Linkerd

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

RBAC & Pod Security Standards

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Mid-Level Kubernetes Engineer to design, deploy, and operate container orchestration platforms for defense, civilian, and public health clients. You’ll implement CI/CD pipelines, harden clusters to meet federal security standards, and enable teams to adopt Kubernetes patterns safely at scale.

You'll work across on-prem, air-gapped, or hardened cloud environments, ensure observability and security, and collaborate with development teams to containerize services