Senior/ DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Are you passionate about enabling modern software delivery through automation, security, and reliability? As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in our cloud-native transformation journey. You’ll architect and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and embed DevSecOps best practices—ensuring security, scalability, and compliance in highly regulated environments. Join our growing DevOps team! We're hiring at multiple levels in both our Herndon, VA and Cincinnati, OH locations.

You’ll work hands-on across the Azure ecosystem to streamline deployments, enhance observability, and embed security into every layer of the engineering lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Your day if you join us:

DevOps & CI/CD Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and YAML for both infrastructure and application delivery.
• Integrate automated testing, compliance scanning, secrets management, and blue/green, canary deployment strategies into all release workflows.
• Champion GitOps practices, ensuring consistent infrastructure provisioning and release governance.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform, Bicep, or ARM modules for Infrastructure as Code across environments.
• Automate cloud provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement using scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and API-driven tools (Azure CLI, REST).
• Create operational automation to support self-healing systems, auto-scaling, and proactive fault remediation.

Observability & Reliability

• Implement and maintain robust observability stacks using Azure Monitor, App Insights, Dynatrace, and Log Analytics.
• Build custom dashboards, health checks, alerts, and metrics pipelines to drive SLO/SLA compliance and reliability engineering practices.
• Collaborate with teams to embed monitoring into CI/CD pipelines and production workflows.

Security, Compliance & DevSecOps

• Embed security controls and compliance checks into pipelines using Azure Security Center, Key Vault, Defender, Azure Policy, and other DevSecOps tools.
• Support enforcement and automation for FedRAMP, NIST, CMMC, and similar frameworks in a SaaS environment.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to automate audit readiness and vulnerability remediation.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Serve as a mentor and escalation point for DevOps best practices across engineering teams.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into technical delivery plans that balance speed, security, and resilience.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement through tooling, documentation, and internal community building.

Required Qualifications

You meet our “must haves” for this role if you have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5-7 Yrs years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles with significant Azure exposure
• Proficient in:
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Git, YAML pipelines
• IaC & Automation: Terraform, Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, Bash, Python
• Azure Services: Compute, AKS, App Services, Azure SQL, Functions, Blob/Table Storage
• Security & Compliance: Key Vault, Azure Policy, Security Center, Defender, RBAC, SSO/OAuth2
• Networking: VNet, NSG/ASG, Load Balancer, ExpressRoute, VPN, Private Endpoints
• Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Dynatrace, custom metrics and alerting

• U.S. Citizens only

  Due to customer requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.  Ability to gain and maintain Trusted Role is required.

Preferred Qualifications

You are exactly who we are looking for if you:

• Experience in regulated SaaS environments (FedRAMP, NIST, CMMC, HIPAA)
• Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid deployments (Azure Arc, on-prem integrations)
• Knowledge of FinOps practices, right-sizing, and cloud cost optimization
• Exposure to AI/ML pipelines or automation of business workflows is a bonus

Hybrid: VA (3x/week) Herndon, VA, Cincinnati, OH

Remote Locations:

NC, GA, TX, NJ, WA, PA, IL, MD, OH, FL, SC, CO, IN

Exostar’s cloud-based platforms create exclusive communities within the Aerospace and Defense, Life Sciences, and other highly regulated industries where members securely collaborate, share information, and operate compliantly. Within these communities we build trust. By analyzing community data, we provide insights and intelligence, enabling organizations to make better, timelier decisions, to mitigate risk, and operate more efficiently.

• We believe in employee development: we promote internally and provide training and educational assistance
• We provide a fun, engaged workplace, with social and community-building events
• We offer comprehensive benefits and flexible time off plans

Exostar is an Equal Opportunity Employment Employer.  The company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or genetic information.  Exostar is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons in all facets of employment including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, training, benefits, transfers and working conditions.