Azure Cloud Engineer – Federal AVD, Terraform & DevOps

LightFeather; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LightFeather is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and manage secure cloud solutions for federal IT environments. You will work on Azure infrastructure, automation, and security with DevOps practices to improve performance and compliance.

Responsibilities include deploying Azure VMs, VNets, and AVD, building Terraform templates, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab. On-site four days weekly in Washington, DC; Active clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active Secret or higher clearance required.
• 3+ years of Azure Cloud Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of CI/CD pipelines experience.
• 3+ years of Terraform for IaC experience.
• 3+ years of GitLab usage.
• Minimum 4 years experience with PowerShell scripting.
• 5+ years in Cloud/DevOps/Systems Eng with mid-level target.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure (VMs, VNets, Storage, Azure AD, PaaS).
• Manage Azure networking components (VNets, NSGs, Load Balancers, VPN/ExpressRoute).
• Develop and maintain Terraform templates as primary IaC tool.
• Support automation via PowerShell, Bash, YAML/JSON, and GitLab pipelines.
• Deploy, configure, and manage AVD environments and integrations.
• Provide troubleshooting and performance optimization for AVD users.
• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
• Automate cloud operations, system configuration, and monitoring tasks.
• Implement secure cloud practices aligned with federal requirements (RBAC, Key Vault, IAM).
• Ensure compliance with NIST, RMF, FedRAMP and agency controls.
• Use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics to analyze health and enforce SLAs.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and program staff for cloud modernization.
• Support onsite collaboration with customer stakeholders four days per week.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

CI/CD

Terraform

GitLab

PowerShell

Cloud security

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

PowerShell

Job description

LightFeather is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and manage secure cloud solutions for federal IT environments. You will work on Azure infrastructure, automation, and security with DevOps practices to improve performance and compliance.

Responsibilities include deploying Azure VMs, VNets, and AVD, building Terraform templates, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab. On-site four days weekly in Washington, DC; Active clearance is required.