Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Hybrid · Washington, District of Columbia, United States or Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer at LightFeather designs, deploys, and maintains secure Azure cloud infrastructure for federal IT environments. You will build and optimize VMs, VNets, Storage, Azure AD, and PaaS services; manage networking components and ExpressRoute connectivity; develop Terraform templates as IaC; automate with PowerShell, Bash, YAML/JSON, and GitLab pipelines; deploy and manage AVD environments including host pools and FSLogix profiles; troubleshoot and optimize performance for AVD users; build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab; automate cloud operations and monitoring; implement secure cloud practices aligned with FedRAMP, NIST, RMF, and agency-specific controls; analyze system health with Azure Monitor/Log Analytics; collaborate with engineering, security, and program staff on cloud modernization; onsite collaboration with customer stakeholders (role cannot be performed remotely long-term).
Required Qualifications
- Active Secret or higher clearance
- 3+ years of experience with Azure Cloud Engineering
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines
- 3+ years of experience using Terraform for IaC
- 3+ years of experience using GitLab
- Minimum of 4 years experience with PowerShell scripting
- 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering (mid-level target)
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure core services and architecture
- Proficiency with Terraform (high priority), PowerShell, and GitLab CI/CD
- Experience supporting Azure networking (VNets, routing, NSGs, VPN/ExpressRoute)
- Hands-on experience with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in production environments
- Understanding of federal cloud security frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, RMF)
- Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC four days per week
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