Senior Azure Engineer — Cloud Modernization & Automation

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision insurance

401K with company matching

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays

Three weeks paid time off

Job summary

Koniag Technology Solutions, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks an experienced Senior Azure Engineer to join a focused team supporting Azure Cloud offerings for a government agency undergoing modernization.

The role emphasizes automation, architecture decisions, and collaboration across product owners, engineers, and security teams to define initial services and a roadmap for future releases. Strong Azure expertise and a Security clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Certificate (AZ-104).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204).
• Significant experience in Azure cloud engineering, administration, or architecture roles.
• Demonstrated experience working in or supporting a federal government IT environment.
• Active Secret Clearance or higher.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, implementation, and ongoing management of Azure Cloud service offerings at both FISMA Moderate and FISMA High security levels.
• Work with Product Owner, Scrum Master, engineers, and security engineers to define service offerings and roadmap.
• Communicate architectural trade-offs and design options to leadership.
• Participate in and support a team coordinating Azure Cloud solutions.
• Implement proofs of concept and pilots and develop operational plans.
• Create documentation and implementation plans for Azure access and usage.
• Build and support YAML-based CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, CircleCI).
• Build and support IaC using Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Salt, Chef, CloudFormation.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell scripts with conditional logic.
• Partner with teams to develop automation and drive projects forward.
• Drive collaboration and automation within the engineering team.
• Identify constraints and bottlenecks and automate solutions.
• Research, analyze, design, and support cloud solutions aligned with strategies.
• Support Change and Configuration Management and Agile practices.

Skills

Azure IaaS/PaaS

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Pulumi

PowerShell

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Agile/Scrum

Security/Compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/related field

AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate

AZ-204 Azure Developer Associate

Federal government IT experience

Active Secret Clearance or higher

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Ansible

Salt

Chef

CloudFormation

Job description

Koniag Technology Solutions, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks an experienced Senior Azure Engineer to join a focused team supporting Azure Cloud offerings for a government agency undergoing modernization.

The role emphasizes automation, architecture decisions, and collaboration across product owners, engineers, and security teams to define initial services and a roadmap for future releases. Strong Azure expertise and a Security clearance are required.