Senior DevOps Engineer

The role

This person will design, automate, and secure Kubernetes environments across AWS. They will drive infrastructure-as-code excellence and DevSecOps best practices.

What you will do

• Deploy, configure, and manage large, production-grade Kubernetes clusters
• 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
• Implement container best practices including image optimization, security hardening, and registry management
• Collaborate with development teams to enable seamless, scalable production deployment of containerized workloads
• Develop and maintain Terraform for AWS resources
• Build and maintain Ansible automation for configuration management and environment consistency
• Build and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Configure and maintain Keycloak for identity, access management, and SSO integrations

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with DevOps or infrastructure engineering
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes (including deployments, services, ingress, storage and/or RBAC)
• 5+ years of experience with AWS (including EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, and/or CloudWatch)
• 5+ years of experience with container technology (Docker, Podman, or containerd)
• 5+ years of experience troubleshooting technical issues and collaborating with cross-functional teams
• 3+ years of experience with IAM (policies, roles, & service accounts)
• 3+ years of experience with Keycloak administration
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform and Ansible automation
• 3+ years of experience with GitLab CI/CD pipeline development
• 3+ years of experience with networking fundamentals and service mesh familiarity
• 3+ years of experience with Government/compliance frameworks (800-53/800-171)
• 3+ years of experience with Scripting (Bash, Python)

Nice to have

• Experience with Platform One BigBang
• Istio or other service meshes
• Vulnerability management and security scanning tools
• Prometheus/Grafana/Loki stacks
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• AWS Certification: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security certifications

Benefits

• Collaborative and caring community
• Hands-on experience
• Certifications
• Industry training

Before you apply

• Must have an active TS/SCI level government clearance
• Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
• Candidates currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration

About the company

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture that helps the US federal government. Their 13,000+ people pursue technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.