Azure DevOps & Operations Engineer

Five Rivers Analytics, an Akima company, is seeking a skilled Azure DevOps & Operations Engineer to support and advance the USMC Enterprise DevSecOps ecosystem across both engineering and operational domains. This role blends systems engineering, future capability development, sustainment operations, platform reliability, security compliance, and customer onboarding to ensure the Azure Enterprise DevSecOps environment remains modern, stable, secure, and aligned with long-term mission needs. This position provides full-lifecycle technical support from requirements analysis and architecture design to pipeline operations, patching, compliance, and continuous improvement. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today!

The qualified candidate must be located in either Charleston, SC or Stafford, VA for periodic visits to the customer site/location.

Responsibilities

Platform Engineering, R&D, and Future Capability Development

• Evaluate emerging Azure services, DevSecOps tooling, Kubernetes enhancements, automated security technologies, and cloud-native architectural patterns.
• Engineer reusable Azure components such as IaC modules, Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, GitOps workflows, and automation pipelines.
• Prototype new platform features, document engineering findings, and burn down future capability requirements for the USMC Azure Enterprise DevSecOps roadmap.
• Lead modernization initiatives including refactoring, upgrades, architectural improvements, and engineering design corrections.

Operational Stability & Platform Sustainment

• Monitor, maintain, and optimize Azure cloud infrastructure to ensure uptime, resiliency, and performance across enterprise applications.
• Support daily operations for Azure services including VMs, storage, networking, ACR, Key Vault, container workloads, and hybrid integrations.
• Manage production and pre-production CI/CD pipelines, resolve operational failures, and maintain pipeline availability.
• Perform system administration for Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows Server environments, including SCCM troubleshooting and domain integration.

DevSecOps Engineering & Pipeline Automation

• Architect, implement, operate, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Advanced Security, CodeQL, Dependabot, SBOM, SAST/DAST, and automated container security tooling.
• Develop modular Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, and related tools for automated resource creation and lifecycle management.
• Engineer and support cloud-native applications deployed on Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and hybrid environments.

Security Engineering, Accreditation & Compliance Maintenance

• Maintain platform accreditation by applying patches, updates, compliance controls, and configuration changes across Azure and DevSecOps toolchains.
• Operate and engineer automated security capabilities including Trellix, Invicti, Anchore, vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, container hardening, and RMF-aligned compliance automation.
• Review logs, alerts, and analytics from Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and security tools to identify, investigate, and remediate resource or subscription issues.

Customer Onboarding, Support & Cross-Team Collaboration

• Lead customer onboarding into the Enterprise DevSecOps environment, ensuring proper provisioning, RBAC, configuration, documentation, and compliance readiness.
• Provide helpdesk and incident support through Remedy, performing root cause analysis and supporting post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, security, QA, and stakeholder teams within Agile/SAFe ceremonies and sprint cycles.
• Produce documentation including system specifications, diagrams, onboarding guides, engineering prototypes, and audit compliance artifacts.

• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, Engineering, Math, or related field and 8 or more years of experience (6 years of related experience required with a Master’s). Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Security+ (IAT II) or equivalent DoD 8570 certification.
• Deep experience with Azure cloud environments, DevSecOps pipelines, CI/CD engineering, and operational sustainment.
• Strong proficiency with Linux and Windows system administration.
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep, Ansible) and scripting (Azure CLI, PowerShell).
• Hands-on experience with automated security, compliance tools, container security, and cloud-native observability platforms., * Experience with DoD cloud ecosystems or Marine Corps enterprise environments.
• Experience designing GitOps pipelines, Helm charts, cloud-native platform components, and Kubernetes operators.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust architectures, advanced container security patterns, and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk).
• Azure cloud certifications (Azure Admin, Developer, Architect), CKAD/KCNA, or AWS/Azure DevOps certifications.

Regular - The company offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) and a range of other voluntary benefits. Paid Time Off (PTO) is offered to regular full-time and part-time employees.

Five Rivers Analytics (FRA), an Akima company, is not just another federal IT contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska.

At FRA, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States.

For our shareholders, FRA provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years.

For our government customers, FRA delivers streamline operations in support of an increasingly fast-paced, complex, and dynamic digital environment.