Kubernetes Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> </div> <div>At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!</div> <div> </div> </div></div><p><strong>About the Role</strong> </p> <p>As federal agencies modernize toward containerized, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes has become the backbone for how mission applications are deployed, scaled, and secured. As a <strong>Mid-Level Kubernetes Engineer</strong> at AFS, you will design and operate container orchestration platforms that support production workloads for defense, civilian, and public health clients — frequently within on-prem, air-gapped, or hardened cloud environments subject to strict federal security requirements (e.g., DoD hardening guides, STIGs). </p> <p>You'll be responsible for the reliability, security, and performance of the platform's application teams build on top of, and for helping those teams adopt Kubernetes patterns correctly. </p> <p><strong>What You Will Do</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, or on-prem/bare-metal) supporting federal client production workloads </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for containerized application deployment, including GitOps workflows </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Harden clusters to meet federal security requirements, including DISA STIGs, Pod Security Standards, network policies, and RBAC configuration </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Implement and manage service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), ingress controllers, and secrets management (Vault, Sealed Secrets, or cloud-native equivalents) </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Build observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd/Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry) to monitor cluster and application health </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Automate infrastructure provisioning with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize) for repeatable, auditable deployments </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Troubleshoot cluster and application incidents, from networking and scheduling issues to resource contention and failed deployments </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Partner with application development teams to containerize services, define resource requests/limits, and adopt Kubernetes-native patterns (health checks, autoscaling, rolling deployments) </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Support ATO and continuous monitoring processes, including vulnerability scanning and remediation for container images and cluster configurations </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Document platform architecture, operational runbooks, and onboarding guides for application teams </li> </ul> <p><strong>What You Bring</strong> </p> <p><stron