Lead DevOps Engineer

About Pluribus Digital

oin us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy – part technologists, part change agents, and all heart. We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to lead the design, governance, and evolution of enterprise cloud architecture within a federal environment. This role focuses on architectural leadership, strategic planning, and technical oversight rather than hands-on engineering execution.

The Azure Cloud Architect will define cloud architecture standards, guide DevOps and engineering teams, and ensure Azure environments are designed for scalability, resilience, security, and compliance. The architect will collaborate closely with engineering teams, program leadership, and government stakeholders to ensure cloud solutions align with mission objectives and federal security requirements.

What you will do:

Cloud Architecture & Strategy

Design and oversee highly available, secure, and scalable Azure architectures across compute, storage, networking, and identity services.

Define enterprise Azure reference architectures, patterns, and best practices for development teams.

Establish architectural guidance for Azure identity, governance, policy enforcement, and monitoring frameworks.

Evaluate and guide the adoption of cloud-native Azure services and modernization strategies.

DevOps & Infrastructure Architecture

Define architectural standards for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementations using Terraform.

Guide DevOps teams in implementing automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and cloud-agnostic tooling such as GitLab, GitHub, and Artifactory.

Ensure IaC approaches support repeatable, secure, and auditable infrastructure deployment patterns.

Provide architectural oversight of container-based deployment models including Kubernetes, Docker, and more.

Cloud Migration & Modernization

Lead architecture planning for migration of on-premises workloads to Azure.

Evaluate workloads and recommend cloud-native transformations leveraging services such as:

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Azure App Service

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Key Vault

Azure Active Directory

Develop strategies for hybrid connectivity and networking architectures.

Governance, Security & Compliance

Define Azure governance strategies including:

Azure Policy

Role-based access control (RBAC)

Identity and access management

Monitoring and observability

Ensure architecture aligns with federal security and compliance requirements.

Technical Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

Serve as the technical authority for Azure architecture across the program.

Provide architectural guidance to DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, and development teams.

Translate mission needs into technical architecture strategies and roadmaps.

Communicate architecture approaches and tradeoffs to government stakeholders, ACIOs, and program leadership.

Lead technical discussions and design reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise cloud strategy.

Minimum Qualifications:

U.S. Citizenship required

Current or previous Public Trust designation

Minimum of 6 years of experience designing and implementing Azure cloud architectures, including:

Highly available cloud architectures

Azure identity and governance

Storage and compute services

Virtual networking and hybrid connectivity

Azure policy and proactive monitoring

Minimum of 6 years of experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Terraform and ARM templates.

Minimum of 6 years of DevOps experience focused on Azure technologies, including cloud deployment automation and pipeline development.

Demonstrated experience architecting CI/CD strategies using:

GitLab

GitHub

Artifactory

Strong understanding of containerization technologies, including Kubernetes, Docker, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Experience designing cloud migration strategies and translating on-premises workloads into cloud-native architectures.

Knowledge of Azure ecosystem services including:

Azure Active Directory

Autopilot / Intune

Microsoft 365 / Office 365

SharePoint

Exchange

OneDrive

Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, and Python.

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly present technical strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience supporting U.S. federal cloud environments and compliance frameworks.

Demonstrated experience leading cloud transformation initiatives within complex enterprise environments.

Why Pluribus May Be a Fit for You

We are purpose driven. We support missions and products that serve the public good, and where our focused capabilities positively impact those mission outcomes. We bring a consultative approach to partner with our government customers and help them succeed as change makers.

Pluribus is a calm company. We are knowledge workers. People do their best work when they are not rushed by artificial urgency or drained by a culture of facetime and workaholism. By having confidence in our people, we can get more done at better quality. When real crunch time comes, we are not already stretched to the limit.

We are stronger because of the variety of skills and personal backgrounds of our team. We hold ourselves accountable with annual reporting on diversity statistics . As a woman owned and led company, diversity, equity, and inclusion is woven into all aspects of the organization.

Compensation and Benefits

Pluribus Digital offers a competitive salary that is determined at the time of offer. Compensation will be based on experience and qualifications, with salary ranges aligned accordingly. If a candidate is a strong fit at a more junior or senior level to what is outlined here, we will assess them accordingly and apply the appropriate salary range during the hiring process. T he range for this specific role is from $170,000 - $185,000 depending on experience. Salary is augmented with opportunity to earn annual bonus and medical/dental/vision benefits, PTO, company paid life insurance and a generous 401k match program. Details on benefits can be found here: https://pluribusdigital.com/content/join/benefits .

• Pluribus Digital is an equal opportunity employer.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law