Azure DevOps Engineer

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). 

Qualifications

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. 

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.