Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Federal) – Secure & Scalable

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

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Mid‑Level Kubernetes Engineer to design and operate container orchestration platforms for defense and civilian clients. You will ensure reliability, security, and performance across on‑prem, air‑gapped, and hardened cloud environments.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, implementing service meshes, and aligning with federal security standards. Strong DoD experience and U.S. citizenship are required, with potential TS/SCI considerations.

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 administration

Linux fundamentals

Scripting (Bash/Python/Go)

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

Container networking

RBAC and security primitives

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent hands-on experience

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

Istio

Linkerd

OpenShift

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Mid‑Level Kubernetes Engineer to design and operate container orchestration platforms for defense and civilian clients. You will ensure reliability, security, and performance across on‑prem, air‑gapped, and hardened cloud environments.

Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, implementing service meshes, and aligning with federal security standards. Strong DoD experience and U.S. citizenship are required, with potential TS/SCI considerations.