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Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer
Crescens Inc.
🇺🇸 United States
Hybrid
3 days ago
- Azure DevOps
- Devops
- CI/CD
- YAML
- Microservices
- Azure
- Key Vault
- App Services
- AKS
- Azure Monitor
- triage
- RBAC
- SQL
- IaC
- Terraform
- Bicep
- PowerShell
- Python
- Docker
- IAM
- Kubernetes
3 days ago
Location:Mechanicsville, VA
Duration: 8+months
Type: Contract
Job Description:
- DevOps & Cloud Engineering CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML and Classic) for microservices and APIs.
- Establish reusable pipeline templates, release standards, and guardrails for compliant, repeatable deployments.
- Implement secure secrets and key management using Azure Key Vault and managed identities in pipelines.
- Automate database deployment workflows (e.g., DACPAC/SQLCMD) and integrate migration steps into releases.
- Enable blue/green or automated rollback strategies to minimize downtime and risk.
- Environment Consistency & Observability Standardize provisioning and configuration across Dev/QA/Prod environments; codify configuration baselines.
- Build monitoring dashboards and actionable alerts for pipeline and deployment health (App Insights, pipeline logs).
- Uphold DevOps best practices tailored to a compliant government environment.
- Azure Resource Engineering & Governance Implement and maintain Azure services and governance standards (e.g., App Services, Function Apps, API Gateways/API Management, AKS) supporting Tolling workloads.
- Support identity and access management (e.g., Entra ID SSO and role assignments) following least-privilege principles.
- Ensure solutions are fault tolerant and highly available; coordinate change requests and rollback procedures.
- Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Reliability Monitor Azure services and application workloads to ensure uptime and performance; perform diagnostic deep-dives with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
- Triage production incidents, drive timely resolution, and document root cause findings; participate in operational cycles and maintenance readiness checks.
- Compliance, Data Flows & Cost Awareness Consider PCI or comparable regulatory requirements when evaluating system behavior, logging, and integrations.
- Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems (e.g., roadway data, financial transactions, reporting) and support optimization of integrations.
- Contribute to cloud cost visibility and optimization recommendations; align operational choices with governance and budget goals.
- Collaboration & Communication Partner with architects, developers, DBAs, and engineers to align deployments with secure network and identity configurations; communicate clearly with stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD (YAML & Classic). Azure application deployment engineering (e.g., App Services, Functions, Containers, APIs). Secure secrets & key management (Azure Key Vault, RBAC, managed identities). SQL deployment automation integrated with CI/CD.
- Logging & observability (App Insights, pipeline logs, dashboards, alerts).
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates).
- Scripting & automation (PowerShell and/or Python).
- Experience with Azure administration/engineering in production environments.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience designing CI/CD standards or DevOps frameworks for microservices. Containerization & orchestration (Docker, AKS); registry-integrated build and release pipelines.
- Governance & compliance automation (Azure Policy, RBAC standards, pipeline guardrails).
- Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
- Exposure to cloud cost analysis and optimization in enterprise environments.
- Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400) preferred.
Required:
- Azure DevOps CI/CD (YAML & Classic)
- Azure App Services / Functions / APIs / Containers
- Secure Secrets & Key Management (Key Vault, RBAC, managed identities)
- SQL Deployment Automation (DACPAC, SQLCMD, CI/CDintegrated DB migrations)
- Environment Provisioning & Configuration (Dev/QA/Prod standardization)
- Logging & Observability (App Insights, pipeline logs, dashboards, alerts)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep/ARM)
- Identity & Access (Entra ID), least-privilege IAM
- AKS / Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Governance & Compliance Automation (Azure Policy, RBAC, pipeline guardrails)
- PCI or similar compliance frameworks
- Cloud Cost Analysis & Optimization
Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer · Crescens Inc.