Senior DevOps Engineer — Azure IaC & Secure CI/CD

Castalia Systems; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401k matching

Generous PTO

Paid holidays

Professional training opportunities

Pet insurance

Job summary

Castalia Systems is seeking a DevOps Engineer Tech 4 to join our team in an onsite role in the Dayton, OH area. You will automate and optimize our CI/CD toolchain, enabling secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for DoD-aligned environments.

The position requires ensuring secure deployments, managing IaC in Azure, and enabling automated provisioning of VMs, keys, networking, and services. You will design, deploy, and maintain pipelines and golden-image workflows with Packer, while enforcing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with leadership experience.
• 8+ years demonstrated performance in related technology.
• Security+ Certification.
• Experience delivering software into AirGapped networks or in a classified Azure region.
• Experience deploying Microsoft infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate Azure infrastructure using IaC (Bicep/Terraform).
• Build and maintain Azure Pipelines to automate provisioning of VMs, Key Vault, networking, and platform services.
• Enforce GitOps-based baselines for versioned, traceable configurations across environments.
• Create and maintain golden image pipelines using Packer for enterprise workloads.
• Ensure security compliance (CMKs, encryption, baselines) and IAM via AD/Entra ID (Keycloak).
• Operate and maintain secure enterprise environments aligning with DoD security standards.
• Document customer configurations and operational details in Confluence.
• Coordinate with onsite and remote teams to validate configurations and handoff readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Problem solving

Security minded

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Security+ Certification

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure Pipelines

Packer

AKS

GitOps

Keycloak

AD/Entra ID

Nessus

Confluence

Skopeo

Crane

Podman

Job description

Castalia Systems is seeking a DevOps Engineer Tech 4 to join our team in an onsite role in the Dayton, OH area. You will automate and optimize our CI/CD toolchain, enabling secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for DoD-aligned environments.

The position requires ensuring secure deployments, managing IaC in Azure, and enabling automated provisioning of VMs, keys, networking, and services. You will design, deploy, and maintain pipelines and golden-image workflows with Packer, while enforcing