Azure DevOps Engineer
Employer name not established · Arlington, Virginia, United States · hybrid
SAIC is seeking Azure DevOps Engineer to join our team. The Azure DevOps Engineer will work at the following SAIC location: Arlington, VA.
Note: This role is primarily onsite at our customer location. The selected candidate will be expected to work onsite a minimum of three (3) days per week. Onsite requirements are subject to change based on program needs.
Job Duties:
- Tool Development: Build internal DevOps tools, CLI utilities, and automation scripts.
- Platform Engineer building and running our internal developer platform (Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines and automation) for both connected and air-gapped environments.
- GitLab for source control and pipelines; Terraform as the primary automation language; Python for helpers/tests; Helm for Kubernetes deployments.
- Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Hyper-V sidecar.
- Trunk-based GitLab workflows, deterministic pipelines with built-in testing and security scans, evidence (JUnit/SBOM/scan) attached to every change, no manual “click-ops.”
- Checksum/signature/SBOM-driven movement of artifacts, mirroring via reposync and Pulp, offline scanning and promotion for high-side environments.
- Secret hygiene by default, secrets management familiarity, and comfort with vulnerability/misconfig scanning in CI (SAST, IaC, secret detection, Semgrep/KICS, Trivy/pip-audit).
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree and five (5) years experience; Four (4) years of additional work experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
- Go-based CLI tools and API integrations to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong background deploying and managing cloud resources (Azure, AWS).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with tools such as Terraform.
- Scripting language such as PowerShell or Python for pipeline and OS task automation.
- Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise environments (Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS).
- Configuration management experience using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
Clearance Requirements:
- Active Top Secret clearance with eligible SCI; SCI access must have been debriefed within the last two (2) years.
Desired Skills:
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) experience, RHEL/Windows patching familiarity, and strong documentation habits for handoffs and audits.
- Experience utilizing Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.