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Aberdeen, Maryland, United States
Onsite
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About the Role
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 Mid-Level Kubernetes Engineer 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).
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.
What You Will Do
What You Bring
Platform Mindset: You think about the system that other engineers build on, not just the feature in front of you. You design for reliability and repeatability, and you assume your work will run unattended at 2am and needs to be debuggable then.
Security as a Default, Not an Afterthought: You bring hardening, least-privilege access, and compliance requirements into the design from day one, especially in DoD/federal contexts where the bar is higher and the environments are less forgiving.
Calm, Methodical Incident Response: When a cluster or workload misbehaves, you isolate the problem systematically — logs, events, metrics, network paths — rather than guessing, and you communicate clearly with stakeholders while you work it.
Enablement Over Gatekeeping: You'd rather teach an application team to deploy safely on the platform than be the bottleneck for every release. You build guardrails and self-service tooling, not just tickets.
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Clearance
As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
