Software Development Platform Engineer
$117,600–$196,200 year
On-sitePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States or San Leandro, California, United States
Job Summary
Administer and maintain Azure DevOps and GitHub organizations, managing projects, repositories, pipelines, permissions, and policies. Govern identity, access, and security by managing service principals, managed identities, and application registrations while enforcing least privilege access and role-based access control. Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to improve build reliability and deployment speed. Implement security tooling for SAST, dependency scanning, and secrets detection, and securely integrate AI-assisted development tools into SDLC workflows. Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for platform or identity issues, documenting standards to support operational excellence. Contribute to platform architecture evolution and evaluate new tools to improve developer productivity and scalability.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on experience administering Azure DevOps and GitHub in an enterprise environment
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, pipelines, and automation workflows
- Familiarity with SDLC methodologies and development lifecycle tooling
- Experience managing service principals, tokens, and identity based automation
- Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) principles, including RBAC, least privilege, birthright, and credential hygiene
- Ability to troubleshoot platform, pipeline, identity, integration issues, and REST APIs
- Experience with security tooling such as code scanning, dependency management, or secrets detection
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
- Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation and identity governance
- Applies Azure CLI to manage service principals, role assignments, and identity policies supporting secure DevOps architectures across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Azure services
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep) for platform and identity provisioning
- Knowledge of cloud platforms, especially Azure and Microsoft Entra ID
- Exposure to workload identity federation and modern token based authentication patterns
- Experience administering Identity Governance platforms, including ConductorOne and SailPoint, with a focus on enterprise‐level access governance and platform administration
- Experience integrating GHAS findings into Azure DevOps, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and secure SDLC pipelines to drive automated remediation and continuous hardening
- Experience applying Hypervelocity engineering principles to accelerate developer workflows, reduce cognitive load, and streamline platform operations across Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Experience designing and implementing Azure DevOps pipeline decorators to enforce organization‐wide governance, inject mandatory security and compliance tasks, and standardize CI/CD behavior across all pipelines without requiring changes from individual development teams
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