Azure Automation Engineer

reputed company: • Support the Arkloud IRAD initiative • reputed company, automate, and sustain Azure Government reputed company infrastructure • reputed company and maintain production Infrastructure-as-reputed company modules using Bicep/ARM, Terraform, reputed company, or Crossplane • Engineer and manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using reputed company CI, reputed company Actions, or Azure DevOps • reputed company Azure reputed company across compute, networking, storage, identity, PaaS data services, observability, and ARM control-plane operations • reputed company production-grade automation using Python and Bash/PowerShell • Write tools and API clients using Azure REST and JSON/YAML manipulation • Support DoD workforce compliance • reputed company solutions in Azure Government environments, GCC High, or reputed company-gapped sovereign clouds • Build and maintain golden images using Packer, Ansible, reputed company, or DSC • Publish images reputed company Azure Compute Gallery and maintain STIG/SCAP hardening and automated reputed company reputed company • Manage AKS clusters and workloads, including private clusters, node pool automation, CNI/network policy, reputed company delivery, GitOps, and cross-reputed company debugging • Automate identity lifecycles reputed company Entra ID Graph API/CLI, including app registrations, service principals, RBAC-as-reputed company, managed identity, workload identity federation, and Key Vault/reputed company integration • Implement network automation for NSG, UDR, private endpoints, Private DNS, hub-spoke, forced-tunnel, and IPAM discipline • reputed company other duties as assigned Requirements: • Must be a US citizen • Must have or be willing to reputed company a Secret Clearance • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or reputed company technical field • reputed company reputed company+ (or equivalent qualifying credential) required reputed company 90 days of start • 3+ years of experience in Azure automation, Infrastructure-as-reputed company, or reputed company • Proficiency in Python and Bash/PowerShell; Go is preferred • Azure depth across compute, networking, storage, identity, PaaS, and monitoring • Extensive experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines • Strong debugging ability across Azure control plane, IaC state, and reputed company boundaries • Hands-on Azure Government, GCC High, IL4/IL5 experience preferred • Experience with STIG/SCAP image hardening pipelines preferred • AKS, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), reputed company delivery, and container platform automation experience preferred • Entra ID identity automation and federated identity experience preferred • Network topology automation (hub-spoke, forced tunnel, private endpoints, IPAM) preferred • reputed company positions are subject to background investigations • Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation including criminal history and identity reputed company Benefits: • Industry competitive benefits package • Awards and recognition program • Personalized attention from ARS Senior Managers • Work/life balance • Career development support and opportunities • Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities Apply To This Job