GPS - Azure Platform Engineer - Supervising Associate

The opportunity

This role supports large and complex government cloud programs operating within Azure Government environments. It is responsible for leading the delivery of platform and infrastructure capabilities from initial design through implementation, with a focus on enabling scalable, automated, and low‑friction cloud consumption models. The position plays a critical role in designing and evolving enterprise grade automation and CI/CD capabilities while serving as a bridge between product, engineering, and platform teams to advance cloud capabilities without introducing technical debt.

The role translates business and user needs into platform designs that meet functional, security, and operational requirements, while providing technical leadership and mentorship within a collaborative delivery environment. Success in this role requires creativity and innovation applied thoughtfully within the constraints of government and security sensitive contexts.

• Lead the design, engineering, and automation of cloud platform solutions that meet product and business needs

• Apply and enhance Dev Sec Ops  practices, standards, and automation to improve reliability and delivery effectiveness

• Apply modern development principles, security standards, and usability guidelines to all platform solutions

• Ensure platform quality through appropriate use of manual reviews and automated controls

• Balance a strong bias toward automation with sound judgment on when manual approaches are more effective

• Identify, communicate, and manage risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions throughout the full solution lifecycle

• Evaluate technical options, assess feasibility and impact, and recommend solutions that balance delivery timelines with long‑term maintainability

• Design, build, and support CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling to enable reliable, repeatable deployments

• Collaborate across teams and mentor junior engineers to support delivery excellence and capability growth

• Demonstrates ownership of assigned work, proactively identifying issues and driving solutions within defined scope

• Operates with a growth mindset, showing curiosity and commitment to continuous learning as technologies and priorities evolve

• Communicates clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders to support effective decision‑making and delivery

• Applies sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, quality, security, and sustainability

• Collaborates effectively across teams, influencing outcomes through partnership rather than authority

• Adapts to shifting priorities and ambiguity while maintaining focus on delivery commitments

• Provides guidance and informal mentorship to less‑experienced engineers through example and feedback

• Approaches problems analytically, questioning assumptions and exploring practical alternatives

• Demonstrates accountability and reliability in environments requiring independent execution

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience

• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Administrator Associate (AZ‑104)

• 5+ years in engineering roles working with private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS

• Strong hands‑on experience with (in order of importance):

• Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD – designing and delivering with tools such as Bicep, Azure Dev Ops, ARM templates, or Ansible

• Containers and orchestration – experience building and running containerized workloads using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps
  , or Helm for packaging and deploying services at scale

• Scripting / programming – practical automation experience using Power Shell (Python or similar scripting languages is a plus but not required)

• Networking fundamentals – strong foundation designing and troubleshooting VNets, subnets, network security groups (NSGs), routing (UDRs), and basic load‑balancing scenarios
  , with enough depth to reason about hub‑and‑spoke or similar topologies and diagnose common connectivity issues

• Cloud security principles – solid understanding of concepts such as shared responsibility, least privilege,…