Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Five Rivers Analytics, an Akima company, is seeking an Azure Platform Lead Engineer to oversee engineering across the USMC Enterprise Azure DevSecOps environment. The role leads a small Azure engineering team, provides technical direction, and ensures platform stability, security, modernization, compliance, and alignment with mission requirements.
Responsibilities
- Guide, support, and coordinate tasks across Azure engineering team members
- Ensure consistent engineering standards, quality, and delivery of platform capabilities
- Work closely with other Azure teams, security groups, and stakeholders to maintain platform alignment
- Support architectural decisions for Azure services, DevSecOps pipelines, and cloud-native components
- Oversee development and maintenance of IaC modules, Helm charts, Kubernetes resources, and automation workflows
- Lead platform modernization, upgrades, and improvement efforts
- Ensure availability, resiliency, and performance of Azure services and CI/CD pipelines
- Oversee daily operations across VMs, storage, networking, Key Vault, ACR, and container workloads
- Support incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous operational improvement
- Direct secure CI/CD practices across Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Promote consistent use of Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, and cloud automation
- Oversee integration of security scanning, container hardening, and compliance automation
- Maintain RMF-aligned compliance and security posture across Azure and DevSecOps tools
- Lead review of alerts, logs, and analytics to identify and resolve resource or subscription issues
- Support Zero Trust-aligned controls and platform security enhancements
- Manage customer onboarding, RBAC, provisioning, configuration, and documentation
- Coordinate helpdesk support, root cause analysis, and post-incident actions
- Participate in Agile/SAFe ceremonies and cross-team planning
- Produce platform documentation, diagrams, onboarding guides, and compliance artifacts
- Contribute to platform roadmap activities, engineering summaries, and capability planning
Skills
- Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret
- Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, Engineering, Math, or related field, or equivalent experience in lieu of degree
- Security+ (IAT II) or equivalent DoD 8570 certification
- 5+ years of experience with Azure engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and platform operations
- Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- Experience guiding technical work or coordinating engineering teams
- Strong proficiency with Azure services, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation
- Skilled in Linux/Windows administration and scripting (PowerShell, Azure CLI)
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, and automated security tools
- Experience with DoD cloud environments or USMC enterprise systems
- Familiarity with GitOps, Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, and advanced container technologies
- Knowledge of Zero Trust concepts, container security, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)
- Azure certifications (Admin, Developer, Architect), CKAD/KCNA, or DevOps-related certifications
- Experience working in Agile/SAFe environments
Benefits
- Medical insurance for regular employees
- Dental insurance for regular employees
- Vision insurance for regular employees
- Life insurance for regular employees
- 401(k) for regular employees
- A range of other voluntary benefits for regular employees
- Paid Time Off (PTO) for regular full-time and part-time employees
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