Senior engineer on a small team building and operating an AWS cloud platform (EKS, Terraform, GitOps via ArgoCD) for US federal workloads in a FISMA-Moderate environment. Day to day: owning infrastructure-as-code, hardening GitLab CI/CD with security scanning and policy-as-code, and advancing NIST 800-53 compliance to support an ATO.
Compensation
$129.8K–$194.3K / yr
Location
Washington, DC
Work setup
Not specified
Seniority
Senior
Employment
Not specified
Experience
7+ years
Category
Devops
Posted
Skills
argocd
aurora
aws
ci-cd
cloud
cloudfront
cloudwatch
devops
devsecops
eks
fedramp
flux
gitlab
gitops
grafana
helm
iam
infrastructure-as-code
kubernetes
networking
nist
observability
rds
s3
sast
terraform
vpc
Must have
7+ years in infrastructure/platform/DevOps with senior ownership of production systems
Deep hands-on Terraform: reusable modules, remote state, drift reconciliation
Kubernetes/EKS at production scale: workload identity (Pod Identity/IRSA), Helm, autoscaling, ingress/load balancing
GitOps experience (ArgoCD or Flux) and CI/CD pipeline engineering (GitLab CI strongly preferred)
DevSecOps in practice: security scanning (SAST, container, IaC, secrets) and policy-as-code (OPA/conftest)
Working knowledge of a federal compliance framework — FISMA/NIST 800-53/RMF and ATO support
Nice to have
Multi-account AWS landing zone / Control Tower / Organizations design experience
Container supply-chain security: SBOMs, image signing (Notation/AWS Signer), admission control
Observability with CloudWatch and/or Grafana
FedRAMP or GovCloud exposure
Weather, geospatial, or scientific-data domain background
Full description
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.
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.
Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!
We’re building and operating the cloud platform that runs on AWS with Kubernetes (EKS), a fully GitOps deployment model, and infrastructure defined entirely as code. We’re a FISMA-Moderate environment actively maturing toward a multi-account federal landing zone, so this role sits right at the intersection of platform engineering, security, and compliance — where the interesting problems are. You’ll be a senior hand on a small, high-trust team. We move real infrastructure through code and pipelines, not tickets and click-ops, and we hold each other to that standard. If you like owning the whole path from a Terraform plan to a running, verified, signed workload and doing it in a way that stands up to an ATO review then this is the job for you.
Job Responsibilities:
Own Terraform for a multi-environment, multi-account AWS estate - modules, state, and the safe reconciliation of live infrastructure into code
Operate Amazon EKS clusters (not just consume them): networking, autoscaling, add-ons, workload identity, and cluster lifecycle
Run and extend our GitOps delivery model (ArgoCD) where a merge is a deployment, so the review gate and the verification loop matter
Build and harden CI/CD pipelines in GitLab: security scanning, secrets detection, policy-as-code, container image scanning and signing, and the evidence trail behind them
Advance our security and compliance posture against NIST 800-53 - least-privilege IAM, network isolation, continuous monitoring, and the artifacts that support an Authority to Operate
Help design the migration to a federal multi-account landing zone: identity, cross-account networking, and promotion between environments
Mentor mid and junior engineers, and raise the bar on change control, review discipline, and “prove it with evidence” engineering
Here's What You Need:
7+ years in infrastructure / platform / DevOps, with senior ownership of production systems
Senior DevSecOps Platform Engineer at accenturefederalservices (Washington, DC) — aijobsearch
Deep, hands-on Terraform — you’ve written reusable modules, managed remote state, and untangled drift between code and live infrastructure without breaking things
Kubernetes / EKS operated at production scale — workload identity (Pod Identity / IRSA), Helm, autoscaling, ingress and load balancing
GitOps experience (ArgoCD or Flux) and CI/CD pipeline engineering (GitLab CI strongly preferred)
DevSecOps in practice: security scanning (SAST, container, IaC, secrets), policy-as-code (OPA / conftest), and the discipline to make gates actually gate
Would Be Nice To Have:
Multi-account AWS landing zone / Control Tower / Organizations design experience
Working knowledge of a federal compliance framework — FISMA / NIST 800-53 / RMF and what it takes to support an ATO
Weather, geospatial, or scientific-data domain background
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The pay range for 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 is:
$129,800—$194,300 USD
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