Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• As the Sr. Azure DEVOPS Engineer you will be responsible for mission critical support of all department owned applications and their infrastructure.
• You will be responsible for ensuring proper monitoring, scale, and resiliency across all environments from test to production.
• Responsibilities include closely with the development team to break fix code, design and implement application build and deployment solutions.
• You will also partner with the software infrastructure and production assurance teams to introduce platform provisioning and standardized configuration management.
• Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services (e.g., VNet, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Azure Firewall/NSGs, Application Gateway/WAF).
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and/or Bicep; enforce GitOps workflows (branching, PRs, policy checks).
• Create reusable modules, pipelines, and golden patterns for app teams; champion automation-first approaches.
• Define and measure SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps for critical services.
• Implement and tune observability (logs, metrics, traces) using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana where applicable.
• Conduct capacity planning, resiliency testing (chaos, failover, DR), and performance tuning across services.
• Build secure, robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines) with automated testing, scans, and approvals.
• Standardize deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for containerized and PaaS workloads.
• Manage container platforms (AKS: node pools, cluster autoscaling, HPA/VPA, ingress, network policies) and registries (ACR).
• Implement guardrails using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, and Blueprints (or equivalent) to enforce least privilege and compliance (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA as relevant).
• Manage secrets and certificates (Key Vault) and integrate security testing (SAST/DAST/Container scanning) into pipelines.
• Support vulnerability remediation and patching SLAs.
• Own incident response, including rotational shifts and on-call; lead triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews.
• Optimize cost (FinOps), tagging standards, budgets, and proactive spending alerts.
• Maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and automation for routine operations.
• Act as a technical mentor; review designs/PRs; contribute to architecture decisions.
• Partner with app teams to onboard workloads, define nonfunctional requirements, and drive platform adoption.
• Manage and or Participate in the deployment and release of development, test and production software builds.
• Manage the operations and monitoring of applications and infrastructure from dev to production.
• Develop code and escalate break fix issues that may occur.
• Task automation of infrastructure and application provisioning.
• Ensure all environments meet scale and resiliency requirements.
• Support customer facing and internal applications.
• Monitor submitted tickets; assign, escalate and communicate, as required.
• Participate in services and software systems design.
• Participate in rotating on-call support duties.

Requirements

• Minimum Six (6) of hands-on experience with Azure-based infrastructure and services in production
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or related)
• Additional Four (4) years of experience is needed in lieu of degree
• 3+ years of experience supporting enterprise level applications and their infrastructure
• Strong understanding of web and their related infrastructure technologies (load balancers, DNS, IIS or Apache/WebSphere, authentication and authorization, database connections, etc.)
• Experience implementing or managing Application Monitoring, Splunk, or Dynatrace
• Working knowledge in Automation technologies
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Deep expertise in several of: AKS, App Services, Functions, APIM, Azure SQL/MI, Cosmos DB, Storage, Event Hub/Service Bus, Redis, VNet/Peering, Private Link, Application Gateway/WAF, Front Door
• Strong IaC with Terraform (preferred) and/or Bicep; Git-based workflows; GitHub or Azure DevOps
• Proven SRE background: SLI/SLO design, error budgets, incident management, RCA, capacity and performance engineering
• CI/CD design and operations (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines); artifact/versioning strategies; release governance
• Observability with Azure: Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting/automations (Action Groups, Logic Apps, Functions)
• Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, load balancing), identity (AAD/Entra ID), and secrets management (Key Vault)
• Scripting proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python; Linux fundamentals
• Understanding of security best practices: RBAC, PIM, Azure Policy, managed ide
• Ability to present to and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams, supporting cross-functional collaboration and alignment.
• Demonstrates a customer driven approach and good relationship management skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and under deadlines.
• Ability to multi-task, be highly organized, and work independently.
• Ability to identify areas of improvement and come up with creative solutions.
• US citizen and Green Card holders only.
• No sponsorship available for this position.
• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

Tech Stack

• Apache
• Azure
• DNS
• Firewalls
• Grafana
• Linux
• Node.js
• Prometheus
• Python
• Redis
• Splunk
• SQL
• Terraform
• Vault

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)