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You’ll architect and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and embed DevSecOps best practices—ensuring security, scalability, and compliance in highly regulated environments.\nYou’ll work hands-on across the Azure ecosystem to streamline deployments, enhance observability, and embed security into every layer of the engineering lifecycle.\nResponsibilities\nYour day if you join us:\nDevOps & CI/CD Engineering\nDesign, build, and maintain scalable, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and YAML for both infrastructure and application delivery.\nIntegrate automated testing, compliance scanning, secrets management, and blue/green, canary deployment strategies into all release workflows.\nChampion GitOps practices, ensuring consistent infrastructure provisioning and release governance.\nInfrastructure as Code & Automation\nDevelop and maintain reusable Terraform, Bicep, or ARM modules for Infrastructure as Code across environments.\nAutomate cloud provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement using scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and API-driven tools (Azure CLI, REST).\nCreate operational automation to support self-healing systems, auto-scaling, and proactive fault remediation.\nObservability & Reliability\nImplement and maintain robust observability stacks using Azure Monitor, App Insights, Dynatrace, and Log Analytics.\nBuild custom dashboards, health checks, alerts, and metrics pipelines to drive SLO/SLA compliance and reliability engineering practices.\nCollaborate with teams to embed monitoring into CI/CD pipelines and production workflows.\nSecurity, Compliance & DevSecOps\nEmbed security controls and compliance checks into pipelines using Azure Security Center, Key Vault, Defender, Azure Policy, and other DevSecOps tools.\nSupport enforcement and automation for FedRAMP, NIST, CMMC, and similar frameworks in a SaaS environment.\nPartner with Security and Compliance teams to automate audit readiness and vulnerability remediation.\nCollaboration & Technical Leadership\nServe as a mentor and escalation point for DevOps best practices across engineering teams.\nTranslate stakeholder requirements into technical delivery plans that balance speed, security, and resilience.\nPromote a culture of continuous improvement through tooling, documentation, and internal community building.\nRequired Qualifications\nYou meet our “must haves” for this role if you have\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience\n8-10 Yrs years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles with significant Azure exposure\nProficient in:\nCI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Git, YAML pipelines\nIaC & Automation: Terraform, Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, Bash, Python\nAzure Services: Compute, AKS, App Services, Azure SQL, Functions, Blob/Table Storage\nSecurity & Compliance: Key Vault, Azure Policy, Security Center, Defender, RBAC, SSO/OAuth2\nNetworking: VNet, NSG/ASG, Load Balancer, ExpressRoute, VPN, Private Endpoints\nMonitoring: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Dynatrace, custom metrics and alerting\nPreferred Qualifications\nYou are exactly who we are looking for if you:\nExperience in regulated SaaS environments (FedRAMP, NIST, CMMC, HIPAA)\nFamiliarity with multi-cloud or hybrid deployments (Azure Arc, on-prem integrations)\nKnowledge of FinOps practices, right-sizing, and cloud cost optimization\nExposure to AI/ML pipelines or automation of business workflows is a bonus\nHybrid: VA (3x/week) Herndon Office\nExostar’s cloud-based platforms create exclusive communities within the Aerospace and Defense, Life Sciences, and other highly regulated industries where members securely collaborate, share information, and operate compliantly. Within these communities we build trust. By analyzing community data, we provide insights and intelligence, enabling organizations to make better, timelier decisions, to mitigate risk, and operate more efficiently.\nWe believe in employee development: we promote internally and provide training and educational assistance\nWe provide a fun, engaged workplace, with social and community-building events\nWe offer comprehensive benefits and flexible time off plans\n\nExostar is an Equal Opportunity Employment Employer. The company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or genetic information. 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