Azure DevOps Engineer

Job ID: 2616152

Location: Arlington, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-28

Category: Software

Subcategory: DevSecOps

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking Azure DevOps Engineer to join our team. The Azure DevOps Engineer will work at the following SAIC location: Arlington, VA.

Role Overview:

• 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

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.

Required Skills:

• 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.

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.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.