DevOps Lead / Azure DevOps Engineer - (Federal)

Sky Solutions is a trusted government contracting partner delivering digital transformation, cloud, cybersecurity, and agile IT solutions to federal agencies. The company is seeking a senior DevOps Lead / Azure DevOps Engineer to lead CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release management, deployment processes, and DevOps tooling for U.S. Department of Justice technology environments. The role also provides technical leadership, mentoring, documentation, and collaboration across architecture, development, infrastructure, data, and security teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of DevOps practices and automation solutions
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO) and related technologies
• Establish automated build, test, deployment, and release processes
• Define branching, source-control, build, release, and deployment strategies
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment processes
• Integrate security and quality controls into CI/CD pipelines
• Develop reusable pipeline templates, scripts, automation frameworks, and deployment patterns
• Support environment configuration and release management across development, test, staging, and production environments
• Monitor pipeline performance and troubleshoot build, deployment, and configuration issues
• Collaborate with architects, developers, system administrators, cybersecurity professionals, and other technical teams
• Establish DevOps standards, processes, and best practices
• Identify opportunities to improve deployment speed, reliability, repeatability, and operational efficiency
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to DevOps and automation engineers
• Develop technical documentation, architecture diagrams, procedures, and operational runbooks
• Ensure DevOps processes align with DOJ security and information-technology requirements

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• • 8+ years of experience in DevOps, automation, systems engineering, or related disciplines
• • Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
• • Experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines
• • Strong experience with source control and automated build/release processes
• • Experience with scripting and automation using technologies such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar
• • Experience with infrastructure/configuration automation
• • Strong understanding of DevSecOps concepts and practices
• • Experience troubleshooting complex deployment, integration, and infrastructure issues
• • Demonstrated technical leadership experience
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the applicable federal Public Trust suitability determination
• • Experience supporting U.S. Federal Government or DOJ environments
• • Experience with cloud and hybrid environments
• • Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• • Experience integrating security testing and controls into CI/CD pipelines
• • Experience with containers and container orchestration
• • Familiarity with Federal cybersecurity and compliance requirements