Lead AI DevOps Engineer (Azure Platform & Automation)

Jefferson; Fort Washington (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jefferson is seeking an Expert Software Engineer to manage Azure-hosted AI Factory environments and related platforms. You will own deployment pipelines, automate testing and governance, and implement observability and security across enterprise AI applications.

Join a team that partners with Architecture, Security, and Development to deliver scalable, compliant, and high-availability cloud solutions for AI-driven software at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher and 7+ years in software development; distributed systems and cloud experience preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation; IaC and containerization skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage Azure-hosted AI Factory environments and related software solutions.
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines to support AI-assisted development.
• Automate testing, release validation, and governance controls.
• Implement monitoring, observability, incident response, and security practices.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Monitoring

Security controls

Platform ownership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Monitoring tools

Job description

Jefferson is seeking an Expert Software Engineer to manage Azure-hosted AI Factory environments and related platforms. You will own deployment pipelines, automate testing and governance, and implement observability and security across enterprise AI applications.

Join a team that partners with Architecture, Security, and Development to deliver scalable, compliant, and high-availability cloud solutions for AI-driven software at scale.