Lead Cloud Platform / DevSecOps Engineer with Secret clearance

Maania Consultancy Services; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Maania Consultancy Services is seeking an experienced cloud/DevSecOps engineer in the Arlington, VA area to lead Azure deployments, secure cloud architecture, and manage CI/CD pipelines. The role focuses on landing zones, AKS, and gov cloud projects with IL4/IL5 considerations and required IAT Level II certification.

Candidate will design IaC with Bicep and support secure, scalable cloud operations within government environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud/platform engineering or related roles.
• Hands-on Azure cloud experience including Landing Zones and AKS.
• Experience with Azure Government deployments.
• IAT Level II certification required.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent experience.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

DevSecOps

Azure services

AKS

CI/CD pipelines

Code scanning

Azure networking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Bicep

Job description

Required Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or closely related technical roles.
• Broad, hands-on experience working across Microsoft Azure services and cloud platform operations.
• Direct experience with Azure Landing Zones; Mission Landing Zone experience preferred.
• Strong experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Experience deploying and managing solutions in Azure Government.
• Understanding of cloud engineering and security requirements associated with IL4/IL5 environments.
• Strong experience maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Bicep.
• Experience managing cloud configuration, deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience integrating code scanning and automated testing into CI/CD workflows.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking fundamentals, including Network Security Groups, route tables, and hub-and-spoke architectures.
• IAT Level II certification required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.