Azure DevOps Engineer

Description SAIC is seeking Azure DevOps Engineer to join our team. The Azure DevOps Engineer can work at one of the following SAIC locations: Arlington, VA or Charleston, SC. Role Overview: • Role: Platform Engineer building and running our internal developer platform (Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines and automation) for both connected and air-gapped environments. • Core Tooling: GitLab for source control and pipelines; Terraform as the primary automation language; Python for helpers/tests; Helm for Kubernetes deployments. • Platform Stack: Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Hyper-V sidecar. • Delivery Expectations: 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.” • Supply Chain and Air-Gap Hygiene: checksum/signature/SBOM-driven movement of artifacts, mirroring via reposync and Pulp, offline scanning and promotion for high-side environments. • Security and Identity: 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 Education Requirements: • Bachelors degree and five (5) years experience; Four (4) years' experience can be considered in lieu of degree. Clearance Requirements: • Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI clearance; US Citizenship required. Required Skills: • 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. 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.