Software Development Assistant Jobs in Tennessee

Key Responsibilities

Platform Administration & Governance

• Administer and maintain Azure DevOps and GitHub organizations, including projects, repositories, pipelines, permissions, and policies.
• Manage platform governance, including branch protections, environment controls, and repository standards.
• Support onboarding, configuration, and lifecycle management of development tools, integrations, and automation services.

Identity, Access, and Security Management

• Manage and govern service principals, managed identities, and application registrations used across CI/CD and automation workflows.
• Implement best practices for token lifecycle management, including PATs, OAuth tokens, GitHub App tokens, and workload identities.
• Enforce secure authentication and authorization patterns, including least privilege access, role-based access control (RBAC), and conditional access policies.
• Monitor and audit identity usage across platforms to detect anomalies, expired credentials, or misconfigurations.
• Partner with security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise identity standards and regulatory requirements.

SDLC & CI/CD Enablement

• Support teams in implementing and optimizing SDLC processes aligned with organizational standards.
• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Improve build, test, and deployment workflows to increase reliability, repeatability, and speed.
• Promote best practices in automation, artifact management, and release engineering.

Security & Compliance

• Implement and maintain security tooling such as SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, and policy enforcement.
• Ensure secure configuration of pipelines, runners/agents, and platform integrations.
• Assess, govern, and securely integrate AI-assisted development tools (e.g., copilots, code review assistants, chat/agent automations) into Azure DevOps/GitHub and SDLC workflows by enforcing data protection and access controls (least privilege, secrets isolation, token hygiene), validating vendor/security posture, defining acceptable-use and logging/audit requirements, and mitigating risks such as sensitive data leakage, prompt injection, and supply-chain compromise.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for platform or identity related issues.
• Document standards, patterns, and platform configurations to support operational excellence.

Architecture & Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the design and evolution of the software development platform architecture.
• Evaluate new tools, integrations, and identity models to improve developer productivity and platform scalability.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce friction, and standardize platform usage across teams.

Qualifications

Required

• Hands-on experience administering Azure DevOps and GitHub in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, pipelines, and automation workflows.
• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies and development lifecycle tooling.
• Experience managing service principals, tokens, and identity based automation.
• Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) principles, including RBAC, least privilege, birthright, and credential hygiene.
• Ability to troubleshoot platform, pipeline, identity, integration issues, and REST APIs.
• Experience with security tooling such as code scanning, dependency management, or secrets detection.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation and identity governance.
• Applies Azure CLI to manage service principals, role assignments, and identity policies supporting secure DevOps architectures across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Azure services.

Preferred

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep) for platform and identity provisioning.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, especially Azure and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Exposure to workload identity federation and modern token based authentication patterns.
• Experience administering Identity Governance platforms, including ConductorOne and SailPoint, with a focus on enterpriselevel access governance and platform administration
• Experience integrating GHAS findings into Azure DevOps, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and secure SDLC pipelines to drive automated remediation and continuous hardening.
• Experience applying Hypervelocity engineering principles to accelerate developer workflows, reduce cognitive load, and streamline platform operations across Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Experience designing and implementing Azure DevOps pipeline decorators to enforce organizationwide governance, inject mandatory security and compliance tasks, and standardize CI/CD behavior across all pipelines without requiring changes from individual development teams.

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