Senior Azure Platform Lead - Cloud CI/CD & Security

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with company matching

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Koniag Government Services is seeking a Senior Microsoft Platform Tech Lead to support the CRM, Integration, and Platform Services workforce in Washington, DC. The role focuses on Azure cloud platform engineering, AKS operations, automation, CI/CD, observability, and secure, reliable digital services.

The candidate will lead engineering execution, coordinate design, and remove blockers while collaborating with government stakeholders, architects, engineers, product owners, cybersecurity,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years in technical leadership and platform engineering, preferably in complex gov environments.
• Hands-on Azure implementation, configuration, development, or operations.
• Experience with Agile delivery and translating stakeholder needs into outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, develop, integrate, test, document, and sustain Microsoft Azure capabilities (Azure, AKS, Bicep, DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, IaC, container ops, monitoring, and secure deployment automation.
• Translate requirements into practical technical solutions for platform capabilities.
• Support architecture, planning, release readiness, and production transitions.
• Develop reusable patterns, standards, automation, and runbooks.
• Troubleshoot complex platform issues across configuration, code, data, APIs, identity, security, and performance.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, privacy, data, infra, QA, and change mgmt teams to align with federal expectations.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and design decisions.

Skills

Azure capabilities

AKS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Security

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Entra ID

Key Vault

Bicep

Job description

Koniag Government Services is seeking a Senior Microsoft Platform Tech Lead to support the CRM, Integration, and Platform Services workforce in Washington, DC. The role focuses on Azure cloud platform engineering, AKS operations, automation, CI/CD, observability, and secure, reliable digital services.

The candidate will lead engineering execution, coordinate design, and remove blockers while collaborating with government stakeholders, architects, engineers, product owners, cybersecurity,