Senior Azure DevOps & MLOps Engineer (FedRAMP)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Life and disability insurance

11 paid holidays

Flexible time off

401k with 4% match

Wellness & home office stipends

Job summary

SimpliGov is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to own and operate the Azure-based AI delivery platform. You will manage AKS, networking, identity, and cost control in a FedRAMP-conscious environment, ensuring security, auditability, and reliability across development to production.

You will automate infrastructure as code, drive observability with Langfuse, and coordinate with AI Ops for deployment, rollout, and rollback.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering in SaaS environments.
• Deep Azure experience: AKS, networking, identity (Entra), and monitoring; you have run production Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as code as your default (Terraform, Bicep, or similar), plus strong scripting; you automate before you document.
• MLOps experience: deploying and operating LLM or ML systems in production, including model gateways, inference infrastructure, or AI observability stacks.
• Demonstrated cost work: you can point to cloud spend you found, explained, and reduced.
• Experience in compliance-heavy environments (FedRAMP, StateRAMP, SOC 2, or similar) is a strong plus.
• Comfortable holding production access, with the discipline that implies.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate our Azure platform: AKS, networking, identity, storage, and environments from development through production
• Own infrastructure as code end to end: environments are reproducible, drift is detected, and nothing reaches an environment without platform visibility
• Operate the AI infrastructure layer: self-hosted observability and evaluation tooling (Langfuse), product telemetry, model gateway and per-workload routing, and compliant GovCloud inference paths
• Own cloud and AI cost: metering, budgets, unit economics, MACC drawdown strategy, and active remediation; cost is an engineering metric here, not a finance afterthought
• Harden production access and controls: least privilege, secrets management, audit evidence, and a FedRAMP-conscious security posture
• Partner with AI Operations on the deploy-and-release path: Octopus Deploy, environment promotion, progressive rollout, and rollback
• Build platform reliability: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning
• Give the microservices decomposition the platform primitives it needs: service infrastructure, scaling patterns, and clean environment boundaries

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

Site reliability

Azure

AKS

Entra

Terraform

Bicep

Scripting

MLOps

Cost management

Governance tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Langfuse

Octopus Deploy

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

SimpliGov is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to own and operate the Azure-based AI delivery platform. You will manage AKS, networking, identity, and cost control in a FedRAMP-conscious environment, ensuring security, auditability, and reliability across development to production.

You will automate infrastructure as code, drive observability with Langfuse, and coordinate with AI Ops for deployment, rollout, and rollback.