Azure Cloud​/DevOps Engineer

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Full Time Professional Washington, DC, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Location: Washington, DC — onsite 4 days per week, 1 day telework

Clearance: Active Top Secret preferred. Active Secret acceptable with the ability to obtain an Interim TS — we'll support you through it.

Employment Type: Full-Time

Compensation: $170,000 – $210,000

Most cloud roles in the federal space promise automation and deliver a portal and a change request form. This one is the other kind.

Improvix Technologies is hiring an Azure Cloud/Dev Ops Engineer to help run and modernize the Azure environment behind a mission‑critical federal program in downtown DC. You'll 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 environment that a real user base depends on every day.

It's a small, senior, hands‑on team with direct access to the customer. When you propose a better way to do something, you're talking to the person who can approve it — not filing it upward and hoping.

• 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, AVD at production scale — a combination that's genuinely hard to get reps in, and that travels well.
• Visible impact. The environment you build is the environment the mission runs on. You'll see your work land, and you'll hear about it from the people using it.
• Room to build, not just maintain. This is an active modernization effort. There's greenfield work alongside the operational load.
• A team that's actually in the room. Four days a week onsite with the customer and each other means fast decisions, real whiteboarding, and none of the multi‑day Slack loops that stall cloud work.

• Design, deploy, and maintain Azure infrastructure — VMs, VNets, Storage, Azure AD, and PaaS services.
• Manage and optimize Azure networking: VNets, NSGs, load balancers, and VPN/Express Route connectivity.

• 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.
• Deploy, configure, and manage AVD environments — host pools, session hosts, FSLogix profile containers, and Azure AD/M365 integrations.
• Troubleshoot and tune AVD performance for a live user community.

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines in Git Lab.
• Automate cloud operations, system configuration, and monitoring.

• Implement secure cloud practices built for federal environments — RBAC, Key Vault, IAM, and encryption standards.
• Keep the environment aligned with NIST, RMF, FedRAMP, and agency‑specific controls.

• Use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and related tooling to track system health, diagnose issues, and hold the line on SLAs.
• Work directly with engineering, security, and program staff to drive the cloud modernization effort forward.

We care more about what you've built than how many years you've been building it. If you can do the work below, apply — even if your background doesn't line up perfectly.

• 5+ years in cloud engineering, Dev Ops, or systems engineering, with substantial hands‑on Azure work.
• Demonstrated depth with Microsoft Azure core services and architecture — you've designed and run real environments, not just studied for the cert.
• Strong hands‑on…