DevOps Lead at Leidos managing platform engineering, SRE, and application security functions. Driving operational excellence and ensuring scalability for federal government applications.
About the role
- Lead Azure DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing and implementing Azure cloud infrastructure. Oversee execution with a focus on high availability and mentoring team members.
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and implement scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
- Define reference architectures for enterprise workloads, including networking, identity, security, and platform services.
- Architect infrastructure to support high-performance, resilient, and mission-critical production systems.
- Plan and execute zero- or near-zero-downtime migrations from on-prem or other clouds to Azure.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for enterprise-scale environments.
- Enforce modular, reusable, and policy-driven IaC patterns aligned with Azure Landing Zone principles.
- Implement automated validation, security scanning, and drift detection for infrastructure changes.
- Design and operate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for multi-environment workloads.
- Manage Kubernetes deployments using Helm and/or Kustomize, following GitOps best practices.
- Implement and operate GitOps workflows using Argo CD or equivalent tools.
- Define platform standards for networking, ingress, secrets management, observability, and scaling.
- Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Harness, or similar.
- Implement advanced deployment strategies including rolling updates, canary releases, and blue/green deployments.
- Ensure pipeline auditability, traceability, and observability, including approvals, artifact promotion, and rollback mechanisms.
- Embed security-by-design principles across infrastructure and pipelines (IAM, RBAC, secrets, network security).
- Implement Azure-native security controls (e.g., Defender for Cloud, Policy, Key Vault).
- Support audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements through automation and evidence generation.
- Drive reliability engineering practices, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and incident response.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to infrastructure and DevOps engineers.
- Collaborate with Service Delivery Leads to support agile planning, backlog creation, and delivery execution when required.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex, cross-layer infrastructure and platform issues.
- Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement across environments and processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure, including networking, compute, storage, identity, and security services.
- Proven experience architecting highly available, scalable, and secure cloud platforms.
- Deep expertise in Terraform for large-scale infrastructure automation.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (AKS) and ecosystem tools (Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD).
- Solid understanding of Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD best practices.
- Demonstrated experience with deployment strategies and production-grade release management.
- Strong background in security, auditability, and compliance in cloud environments.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven experience in technical leadership, mentoring, and building high-performing teams.
- Experience working in client-facing environments and managing technical expectations.
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