Senior Azure Cloud​/DevOps Engineer - Interim Secret or Higher

JOB TITLE: Senior Azure Cloud/Dev Ops Engineer

GOVERNMENT AGENCY
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Department of State

POSITION INFORMATION
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Full-Time Position;
Government contractor supporting federal agency clients

LOCATION: Downtown Washington, DC (Hybrid); 3 days onsite per week

BENEFITS: Health, Dental and Vision, 401(k), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), 11 Paid Federal Holidays, PTO, education reimbursement

CLEARANCE: Must have, at minimum, an active Interim Secret security clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a final Top-Secret clearance.

ITC Federal, LLC (ITC) connects technology advancements in automation and AI, customer experience, and financial services to solve government mission challenges, enabling smoother operational efficiency and bolstering national security. We leverage the latest technology innovations and proven approaches to better serve the mission and support the DHS, DOJ, and DoW workforce, customers, and programs, regardless of scale or complexity. ITC is located in Fairfax, VA and offers outstanding compensation and benefits plan and a challenging and rewarding professional work environment.

ITC is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud/Dev Ops Engineer to help run and modernize the Azure environment behind a mission-critical federal program in downtown Washington, DC. This is a Terraform-first role, not a ticket queue: the engineer will own infrastructure as code end to end - writing the Terraform, building the Git Lab pipelines that ship it, and standing up the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environment a live user base depends on every day.

The engineer will join a small, senior, hands‑on team with direct access to the customer, where proposed improvements go straight to the person who can approve them. ITC values demonstrated work over years of experience; candidates who can do the work described below are encouraged to apply even if their background does not align perfectly.

WHY THIS ROLE:

• Real IaC ownership. Terraform is the primary tool here, not an aspiration in a roadmap deck. You'll write it, review it, and own the modules.
• A stack you can point to later. Azure core services, Terraform, Git Lab CI/CD, Power Shell, and AVD at production scale-a combination that is hard to get hands‑on time with and that travels well.
• Visible impact. The environment you build is the environment the mission runs on, and you'll hear about your work from the people who use it.
• Room to build, not just maintain. This is an active modernization effort, with greenfield work alongside the operational load.
• A team that’s actually in the room. Working onsite with the customer and each other four days a week means fast decisions, real whiteboarding, and none of the multi-day message loops that stall cloud work.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Azure Cloud Engineering
• Design, deploy, and maintain Azure infrastructure, including virtual machines, VNets, Storage, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), and PaaS services.
• Manage and optimize Azure networking, including VNets, network security groups (NSGs), load balancers, and VPN/Express Route connectivity.
• Infrastructure as Code
• Develop and maintain the Terraform modules and templates that define the environment.
• Automate everything worth automating using Power Shell, Bash, YAML/JSON, and Git Lab pipelines.
• Azure Virtual Desktop
• Deploy, configure, and manage AVD environments, including host pools, session hosts, FSLogix profile containers, and Azure AD/Microsoft 365 integrations.
• Troubleshoot and tune AVD performance for a live user community.
• CI/CD & Automation
• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines in Git Lab.
• Automate cloud operations, system configuration, and monitoring.
• Security & Compliance
• Implement secure cloud practices for federal environments, including…