Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in federal services today? Join us and unleash your potential working in an agile environment alongside the men and women charged with ensuring the success of one of the most important missions in American Government. We are seeking a Cloud Container Orchestration Engineer to support a government customer under a BPA contract. This role focuses on designing, deploying, and managing containerized workloads using Amazon EKS, ECS, and related AWS services to support secure, scalable, and automated cloud environments. If you are passionate about container orchestration, infrastructure automation, and security-first engineering practices in support of large-scale federal modernization efforts—this is the opportunity for you.
As a Cloud Container Orchestration Engineer, you will:
- Design and manage secure, scalable container orchestration platforms using Amazon EKS, ECS, and Fargate.
- Deploy microservices and application workloads across hybrid cloud environments with automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
- Develop Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests for containerized application provisioning and updates.
- Implement observability and logging strategies using CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Ensure compliance with FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST 800-53 requirements in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform aligned with government system development and engineering standards.
- Support development and management of a self-service cloud portal with dynamic provisioning automation.
- Implement and manage DevSecOps pipelines to automate secure deployments of container-based workloads.
- Modernize cloud Concept of Operations (ConOps) documentation and operational workflows for container-based services.
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams to ensure container-based solutions meet system boundary and documentation requirements.
- Ensure integration of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles into container orchestration strategies.
- Participate in governance and process improvement initiatives including Configuration, Release, and Problem Management.
- Support the development of System Security Plans (SSPs), configuration management artifacts, and change control documentation for container-based workloads.
- Minimum of 8 years of professional IT experience working with cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- US Citizenship Required.
- 3+ years of experience in deploying and managing containerized workloads on AWS using Kubernetes, ECS, and related technologies, including experience with add-ons such as CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and VPC CNI.
- Proficient in authoring and managing Kubernetes manifests (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, CRDs)
- Hands-on experience with developing deployment and automation solutions using infrastructure as code tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation. Proficient with TypeScript, Python or other language to support automation requirements.
- Strong understanding of container networking, pod security policies, RBAC, and IAM integration as well as runtime/systems hardening.
- Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and GitOps pipelines for automated container deployment. Able to leverage tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and FluxCD.
- Experience integrating secrets management tools such as AWS Secrets Manager, Sealed Secrets, or HashiCorp Vault
- Knowledge of federal compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, NIST RMF, and SSP documentation.
- Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Familiarity with tracing tools like Jaeger and AWS X-Ray.
- Experience supporting cloud monitoring integration with centralized dashboards (e.g., EOC/NOC/SOC alignment).
- Familiarity with automated tagging, cost tracking, and configuration management for container workloads.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
- Familiarity with Red Hat OpenShift, Istio, Linkerd, or other enterprise container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with secure image registries, vulnerability scanning, and automated patching for container environments.
- Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud orchestration environments.
- Experience contributing to federal cloud ConOps documentation, governance reviews, and system architecture boards.
- 401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
- Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
- Dental insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- AD&D
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Training
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Referral program
- Paid Legal Plan
- and more....
Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance
US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
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