Senior DevOps Engineer
Accenture Federal Services•Colorado Springs, CO
•$116,900 - $243,100•Onsite
About The Position
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with deep, hands‑on expertise in Kubernetes and modern containerized infrastructure. This role assists with the design, automation, scalability, and security of Kubernetes environments across AWS—while driving infrastructure-as-code excellence and DevSecOps best practices.
Requirements
- 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 with: 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)
- 3+ years of experience with: Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)
- CompTIA Security+ or other DoD 8140 qualified certification (expected within 90 days of hire)
- Must have an active TS/SCI level government clearance
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Platform One BigBang
- Experience with Istio or other service meshes
- Experience with Vulnerability management and security scanning tools
- Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Loki stacks
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- AWS Certification: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security certifications
Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure, and manage large, production-grade Kubernetes clusters across complex set of 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
- 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 (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Build and maintain Ansible automation for configuration management and environment consistency
- Build and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments, testing, and security workflows
- Drive continuous improvement in reliability, automation, security, and operational efficiency
- Configure and maintain Keycloak for identity, access management, and SSO integrations
- Implement and maintain security and compliance controls, especially in regulated environments
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc.)
- Assist in design and implementation of scalable monitoring infrastructure components across infrastructure
- Advise on platform architecture and containerization strategies
- Mentor junior engineers in Kubernetes, containers, and automation practices
Benefits
- Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
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