Azure Engineer

Senior Azure Engineer

Own the opportunity as a Senior Azure Engineer and help ensure the mission is never interrupted. At GDIT, we deliver clarity with our cloud solutions and provide meaningful work. Your work will be an important part of transforming our clients for the modern age and help them face any obstacle.

The Senior Azure Engineer will work as part of an agile development team to build and support the modernization of enterprise-class software applications for Federal client.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure operational stability, availability, performance, and scalability of cloud-hosted systems across production and development environments supporting multiple agile teams
• Provide real-time monitoring, alerting, incident response, and health checks for infrastructure and applications across all cloud layers (OS, app, DB)
• Implement and maintain dashboards, visualizations, and reports for system health, event management, and cost optimization using native Azure tools.
• Manage cloud resource thresholds and automate capacity planning, forecasting, and resource optimization strategies
• Perform incident and event management (SIEM) operations, and support issue diagnosis, resolution, and reporting including RCA documentation
• Track, document, and report monthly issues, including system performance, stability, ticket volumes, and time-to-resolution metrics
• Monitor resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk space) across all deployed VMs, containers, and PaaS components
• Contribute to the implementation of the ServiceNow Management, Instrumentation and Discovery (MID) servers
• Support deployment automation and ensure systems are resilient, repeatable, and scalable via Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Execute daily or agreed frequency system health checks and maintain operational Runbooks and SOPs

Required Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 5 - 8+ years experience in IT system engineering, systems development, systems coding and programming
• Deep expertise with Azure services, including monitoring, logging, compute, storage, and networking
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, or Azure Bicep
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and APM tools such as Azure Monitor, etc.
• Solid understanding of incident response, change management, and ITIL-based operational support
• Familiarity with CI/CD toolchains and automation platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab)
• Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for automation and orchestration
• Experienced in developing, testing, and maintaining containerized applications
• Expert knowledge of source version control, build/release tools and methodologies, CI/CD pipelines and the Software Build process for large enterprises that consists of a large number of complex applications
• Experience with cost modeling, forecasting, and optimization tools within cloud platforms
• Understanding of federal compliance and security frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST Rev 5)
• ITIL, Azure Fundamentals, Azure Developer Associate certifications are a plus

Must be a US Citizen

GDIT Is Your Place:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $127,500 - $172,500. 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: USA DC Washington

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. 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.

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