Senior Azure DevOps & MLOps Engineer

SimpliGov LLC; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

11 paid holidays

Flexible time off

401k with 4% employer match

Wellness and home office stipend

Job summary

SimpliGov LLC is seeking a hands-on DevOps Platform Engineer to own the Azure-based AI-native delivery stack, including AKS, networking, identity, storage, and environments from development to production.

You will manage IaC (Terraform/Bicep), cost discipline, and security controls in a FedRAMP-conscious environment, while partnering with AI Ops on deployment paths, observability, and compliant inference routes. The role emphasizes reliability and auditable changes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering in SaaS environments.
• Deep Azure experience: AKS, networking, identity (Entra), and monitoring; production Kubernetes.
• IaC in Terraform, Bicep, or similar; strong scripting and automation.
• MLOps experience: deploying and operating ML/LLM systems in production.
• Demonstrated cloud-cost optimization and spend-reduction efforts.
• Experience in compliance-heavy environments (FedRAMP, SOC 2, or similar) is a plus.
• Comfort with production access and least-privilege controls.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate Azure AKS, networking, identity, storage, and environments from development through production.
• Own infrastructure as code end to end; ensure reproducible environments and platform visibility.
• Operate AI infrastructure: observability, model gateway, and GovCloud inference paths.
• Own cloud and AI cost: metering, budgets, unit economics, and remediation strategies.
• Harden production access, secrets management, and FedRAMP-conscious security posture.
• Partner with AI Operations on deploy-and-release: Octopus Deploy, promotions, rollout, and rollback.
• Build platform reliability: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Provide platform primitives for microservices: service infrastructure and scaling boundaries.

Skills

Azure AKS

Terraform

Bicep

SRE

MLOps

Cost optimization

FedRAMP compliance

Entra identity

Tools

Octopus Deploy

Langfuse

Job description

SimpliGov LLC is seeking a hands-on DevOps Platform Engineer to own the Azure-based AI-native delivery stack, including AKS, networking, identity, storage, and environments from development to production.

You will manage IaC (Terraform/Bicep), cost discipline, and security controls in a FedRAMP-conscious environment, while partnering with AI Ops on deployment paths, observability, and compliant inference routes. The role emphasizes reliability and auditable changes.