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).

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.