Senior DevOps Engineer: Kubernetes, AWS & DevSecOps for Govt

Accenture Federal Services; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 117,000 - 243,100; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead Kubernetes deployments and platform engineering across AWS environments. You will drive infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, and security practices in a regulated federal setting.

The role requires expertise in Kubernetes, AWS services, and container technologies, with a focus on reliability, observability, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams in a dynamic government context. A TS/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Kubernetes including deployments, services, ingress, storage and RBAC.
• AWS including EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch.
• Container technology such as Docker, Podman, or containerd.
• Strong troubleshooting and cross‑functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and manage large, production‑grade Kubernetes clusters across environments.
• Automate and optimize deployments, services, ingress, storage, networking, and RBAC within Kubernetes.
• Troubleshoot complex platform issues within Kubernetes and its ecosystem.
• Deploy and maintain containerized DevSecOps Platform services and implement security best practices.
• Develop and maintain Terraform for AWS resources and build Ansible automation for config management.
• Build and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments, testing, and security workflows.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Problem solving

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker/Containerd

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

Keycloak

Prometheus Grafana Loki

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead Kubernetes deployments and platform engineering across AWS environments. You will drive infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, and security practices in a regulated federal setting.

The role requires expertise in Kubernetes, AWS services, and container technologies, with a focus on reliability, observability, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams in a dynamic government context. A TS/SCI clearance is required.