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Job Description: George Consulting is seeking an Azure Engineer to support and advance the USMC Enterprise DevSecOps ecosystem across both engineering and operational domains. This role blends systems engineering, future capability development, sustainment operations, platform reliability, security compliance, and customer onboarding to ensure the Azure Enterprise DevSecOps environment remains modern, stable, secure, and aligned with long-term mission needs. This position provides full-lifecycle technical support from requirements analysis and architecture design to pipeline operations, patching, compliance, and continuous improvement. Roles and Responsibilities: Systems Engineering & Future Capability Development * Lead engineering evaluation of new Azure platform capabilities, emerging DevSecOps tools, Kubernetes enhancements, automated security technologies, and cloud ‑ native architectural patterns. * Drive R&D efforts to prototype new platform features, test future capabilities, and document engineering findings to burn down future requirements for USMC Azure Enterprise DevSecOps. * Conduct technical planning, functional analysis, requirements decomposition, and allocation for cloud ‑ based and hybrid systems, ensuring engineering alignment with mission objectives. * Engineer reusable Azure platform components such as Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, IaC modules, GitOps pipelines, and automation workflows to streamline future onboarding and system expansion. * Develop modernization strategies and lead engineering efforts for upgrades, refactoring, and transformation initiatives across the Azure DevSecOps ecosystem. DevSecOps Engineering & Automation * Architect, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines that support scalable, automated application delivery across Azure cloud environments. * Engineer integrations across DevSecOps pipelines, incorporating Azure DevOps, GitHub Advanced Security capabilities, automated SBOM generation, SAST/DAST scanning, and container security automation. * Develop highly modular Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Bicep) for automated resource creation and lifecycle management. Cloud‑Native Architecture & Engineering Support * Engineer and support applications deployed across Azure and hybrid environments, ensuring proper integration with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, and other container ecosystems. * Analyze and design for high availability, resilience, scalability, and distributed system performance across cloud native architectures. * Identify architectural gaps, perform root cause analysis for system design defects, and propose engineered improvements. Security Engineering & Compliance Automation * Engineer automated security capabilities including vulnerability scanning, SAST/DAST, container security, and compliance automation within DevSecOps pipelines. * Support engineering of identity, networking, access control, and policy enforcement mechanisms consistent with DoD cybersecurity frameworks and RMF. Testing, Verification, & Documentation * Perform verification, validation, quality assurance, and engineering-level system testing for cloud-native solutions. * Produce engineering documentation, diagrams, system specifications, prototypes, and future capability whitepapers. * Collaborate closely with development, QA, security, operations, and stakeholders to drive engineering decisions and influence long-term technical approaches. THIS POSITION REQUIRES AN ACTIVE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TOP SECRET OR SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE. Required Qualifications * Current and active Secret security clearance. * Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, Engineering, Math, or related field, or equivalent experience. * CompTIA Security+ or equivalent certification (IAT Level II). * 8+ years' experience (Bachelor's) or 6+ years (Master's). * Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and DevSecOps practices. * Experience engineering cloud native platforms, especially Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and hybrid systems. * Strong proficiency with IaC (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Bicep). * Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Bash, Go, Java). * Hands-on experience with automated security compliance tools. Desired Qualifications * Experience designing platform components (Helm charts, operators, GitOps pipelines). * Familiarity with Zero Trust architectures, advanced container security, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and automation driven DevSecOps tooling. * Knowledge of DoD enterprise architectures, Marine Corps systems, and multi-vendor cloud environments.