Azure Cloud Engineer

Description

Responsibilities:

• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to Dev Sec Ops  processes and tools.
• Ensure work product meets user acceptance criteria.
• Manage self-directed assignments.
• Meet schedule deadlines and commitments with a high level of quality of deliverables.
• Be a trusted automation and tooling advisor for Cloud and Dev Sec Ops  initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights, and advice.
• Recommend and implement industry standards.
• Implement and ensure adherence to security practices and incorporate them into the automated pipelines.

Clearance Requirements

• DoD Security Clearance of Secret or higher (Active).

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business or related scientific or technical discipline.

Minimum Experience

• 5+ years of Dev Sec Ops  experience.
• 3 years of experience with Azure and other Cloud environments.
• 3 years of experience with application and operating system security.
• 3 years of hands‑on experience creating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Helm, Nexus.
• 3 years of hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Ansible and Terraform.
• 3 years of experience with Kubernetes in an Azure cloud environment.
• Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket.

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and ability to communicate strategic information security topics, policies, and standards, as well as risk‑related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences at various organizational levels.

Preferred Skills

• Certification in one or more cloud environments (Azure or AWS).
• Knowledge and experience working in DoD Azure environments.

Experience Level
:
Expert Level.

Job Type & Location
:
Contract to Hire position based out of Fort Meade, MD.

Pay and Benefits

• Pay range: $70.00 – $95.00/hr.
• Benefits may include:
  Medical, dental & vision;
  Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital; 401(k) Retirement Plan – pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions available;
  Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents);
  Short and long‑term disability;
  Health Spending Account (HSA);
  Transportation benefits;
  Employee Assistance Program;
  Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave).

Workplace Type
:
Fully onsite.

Final date to receive applications
:
Anticipated to close on Jan 19, 2026.

TEKsystems is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.