DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Accenture Federal Services helps the U.S. federal government make the nation stronger, safer, and improve lives. With 13,000+ people, the company pursues technology and ingenuity for defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. This role is for an Infrastructure Engineer who will architect and maintain scalable, resilient systems that support high‑volume data alerting in a fast‑paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS, utilizing services such as EKS, EC2, and S3, and implement infrastructure as code with Terraform to automate provisioning and configuration.
• Design robust routing and DNS solutions to guarantee high availability and performance across distributed systems.
• Architect and maintain scalable, resilient systems that support high‑volume data alerting.
• Orchestrate containerized workloads with Kubernetes, ensuring seamless deployment and management of applications.
• Work with messaging platforms like RabbitMQ and Kafka to handle large‑scale data streams and ensure reliable communication between services.
• Utilize monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, and logging/alerting frameworks (e.g., Prometheus Stack) to enable proactive incident response.
• Collaborate with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and enhance operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and implement best practices in cloud security and automation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar field.
• Proficiency in several of the following areas: Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS (EC2, S3, EKS, etc.), Terraform, Logging and Alerting (Prometheus Stack or similar).
• Active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with scalable applications on Kubernetes.
• Experience handling high‑volume data alerts.
• Experience working on large projects in complex, fast‑paced environments.

Pay

The base pay range for this position in the specified locations (California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland) is $130,200 — $265,300 USD.

Benefits

Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits (details available on the company’s benefits page).