Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: Must be located in Charleston, South Carolina, or Stafford, Virginia, with periodic visits to the customer site. The position is listed as remote but requires location-specific customer-site visits.

Salary: $140,000–$150,000 per year

Company

Federal IT services supporting government customers through cloud engineering, DevSecOps, platform operations, and mission-focused technology delivery.

What you will do

• Engineer and modernize Azure Enterprise DevSecOps platform capabilities, including reusable infrastructure components, Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, GitOps workflows, and automation pipelines.
• Operate and optimize Azure infrastructure, cloud services, hybrid integrations, production environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure DevSecOps pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Advanced Security, CodeQL, Dependabot, SBOM, SAST/DAST, and container security tooling.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and automation with Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, Azure CLI, and PowerShell.
• Maintain platform accreditation through patching, configuration management, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, and RMF-aligned compliance automation.
• Lead customer onboarding, incident support, root cause analysis, technical documentation, and collaboration across engineering, operations, security, QA, and stakeholder teams.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain Top Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, with 8 or more years of experience; a master’s degree may reduce the required experience to 6 years. Equivalent additional experience may substitute for the degree.
• Security+ (IAT II) or an equivalent DoD 8570 certification.
• Deep experience with Azure, DevSecOps pipelines, CI/CD engineering, operational sustainment, automated security, compliance tooling, and observability.
• Strong Linux and Windows system administration skills, including RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows Server, SCCM troubleshooting, and domain integration.
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, container security, and cloud-native environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with DoD cloud ecosystems or Marine Corps enterprise environments.
• Experience designing GitOps pipelines, Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, and cloud-native platform components.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust architectures, advanced container security, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.
• Azure, CKAD, KCNA, AWS, or Azure DevOps certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement with required periodic customer-site visits based on the specified location requirements.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) and additional voluntary benefits.
• Paid time off for regular full-time and part-time employees.
• Opportunities for professional growth and retirement benefits.