Senior Azure Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Artificial Intelligence (AI), DevSecOps, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Machine Learning (ML), Microsoft Azure

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Senior Azure Engineer to lead the design, automation, and security of enterprise cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure. This remote role provides senior-level engineering expertise and supports mission programs by delivering scalable cloud infrastructure, enhancing DevSecOps capabilities, and enabling AI and data science proof-of-concepts across customer environments. The Senior Azure Engineer ensures the reliability, performance, and security of Azure platforms while contributing to modernization and cloud transformation initiatives. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided for this role.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Lead the engineering, deployment, and optimization of Azure cloud infrastructure across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services.
• Support data scientists and AI teams in developing and operationalizing AI proof-of-concepts using Azure ML, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Databricks.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform for consistent and automated deployments.
• Migrate existing cloud resources into IaC frameworks before promotion into higher environments, ensuring version control, automated testing, and policy compliance.
• Implement DevSecOps practices including automated security scanning, configuration compliance, and policy enforcement in CI/CD pipelines.
• Engineer Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, AKS, monitoring, and governance components.
• Integrate SaaS platforms securely with Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
• Produce architecture diagrams, engineering documentation, and technical recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging Azure services, AI capabilities, and multi-cloud tooling; provide adoption guidance.
• Contribute to cloud standards, engineering patterns, and modernization roadmaps.
   

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelor’s degree plus 10+ years of Azure cloud engineering experience.
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads, including Azure ML, Databricks, and model deployment pipelines.
• Hands-on experience designing and securing Azure cloud environments at scale.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, and security-by-design principles, including Git-based version control tools.
• Experience with IaC frameworks such as Bicep, ARM, or iTerraform.
• Understanding of multi-cloud concepts and AWS/GCP service equivalents.
• Hands-on experience Linux and Windows Server administration.
• Hands-on scripting experince in PowerShell, Bash, and Python.
• Hands-on experience with networking, including VNets, DNS, routing, private endpoints, firewalls.
• Experienced with containers and orchestration, including Docker and AKS.
• Experience with key Azure services including: Entra ID, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, VMs, ACR, Functions, Azure Monitor,

• At least one active Azure certification, including Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), Azure Administrator (AZ-104), and/or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance (U.S. citizenship required).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with:  Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
• Active Security+, CySA+, and/or CCSP certification(s)
• Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD)

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $184,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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