Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer - Mechanicsville, VA 23116 (Remote)

Yakshna Solutions, Inc.; Mechanicsville, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Paid time off

Training and professional development

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Yakshna Solutions, Inc. in Mechanicsville, VA seeks an Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for microservices and APIs in Azure.

You will implement deployments, secrets management, and governance across Dev/QA/Prod environments, ensuring reliability, security, and cost visibility, with opportunities to work with government and private sector clients.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD (YAML & Classic).
• Azure application deployment engineering (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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML and Classic).
• Establish reusable pipeline templates, release standards, and guardrails for compliant deployments.
• Implement secure secrets and key management in pipelines.
• Automate database deployment workflows and integrate migration steps into releases.
• Enable blue/green or automated rollback strategies to minimize downtime.
• Standardize provisioning and configuration across Dev/QA/Prod environments; codify baselines.
• Build monitoring dashboards and actionable alerts for pipeline health and performance.
• Triage production incidents and document root-cause findings; support maintenance.

Skills

Azure DevOps CI/CD

Azure deployment engineering

Secrets & key management

SQL deployment automation

Logging & observability

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting & automation

Azure production experience

Tools

Docker

AKS

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Python

Azure Key Vault

Job description

We strive to attract and retain the brightest people and offer different job experiences with a full range of challenges and rewards.

We help companies realize and implement IT solutions strategically. Yakshna Solutions supports our client’s mission and goals by sharing our know-how, skills and knowledge. We strive to attract and retain the brightest people and offer different job experiences with a full range of challenges and rewards. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer.

Working with Yakshna gives you the opportunity to develop your knowledge, skills, and abilities. Additionally, you can build a network of peers, mentors and advance your career! We offer exciting opportunities to work with leading industry experts, business consultants and IT specialists across large government and private sector companies. The people who work in Yakshna are as diverse as our services. We recognize the crucial importance of each individual to our success and offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits and innovative training.

Opportunities here exist across many services and across many US states. Don’t forget to refer your friends to earn cash for qualified referrals! Based on your relevant profile and our current requirements, our recruitment team will contact you as soon as possible.

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812275 Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer

Yakshna Solutions, Inc ., (YSI)\\\\\\\\\\\\is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.

YSI is seeking an Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Location: 9120 Lockwood Blvd Mechanicsville, VA 23116 (Remote)

Salary $110,000-115,000 annually with benefits

U.S Citizen or Green card holder only

YSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.