GPS - Azure Platform Engineer - Supervising Associate

About the role

The opportunity involves supporting large and complex government cloud programs operating within Azure Government environments. The role leads the delivery of platform and infrastructure capabilities from initial design through implementation, focusing on scalable, automated, and low-friction cloud consumption models. It also involves designing and evolving enterprise-grade automation and CI/CD capabilities, bridging product, engineering, and platform teams to advance cloud capabilities without introducing technical debt.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, engineering, and automation of cloud platform solutions that meet product and business needs
• Apply and enhance DevSecOps practices, standards, and automation to improve reliability and delivery effectiveness
• Apply modern development principles, security standards, and usability guidelines to all platform solutions
• Ensure platform quality through appropriate use of manual reviews and automated controls
• Balance a strong bias toward automation with sound judgment on when manual approaches are more effective
• Evaluate technical options, assess feasibility and impact, and recommend solutions that balance delivery timelines with long-term maintainability
• Design, build, and support CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling to enable reliable, repeatable deployments
• Collaborate across teams and mentor junior engineers to support delivery excellence and capability growth

Requirements

• Demonstrates ownership of assigned work, proactively identifying issues and driving solutions within defined scope
• Operates with a growth mindset, showing curiosity and commitment to continuous learning as technologies and priorities evolve
• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to support effective decision-making and delivery
• Applies sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, quality, security, and sustainability
• Collaborates effectively across teams, influencing outcomes through partnership rather than authority
• Adapts to shifting priorities and ambiguity while maintaining focus on delivery commitments
• Provides guidance and informal mentorship to less-experienced engineers through example and feedback
• Approaches problems analytically, questioning assumptions and exploring practical alternatives
• Demonstrates accountability and reliability in environments requiring independent execution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• 5+ years in engineering roles working with private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD – designing and delivering with tools such as Bicep, Azure DevOps, ARM templates, or Ansible
• Containers and orchestration – experience building and running containerized workloads using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, or Helm for packaging and deploying services at scale
• Scripting / programming – practical automation experience using PowerShell (Python or similar scripting languages is a plus but not required)
• Networking fundamentals – strong foundation designing and troubleshooting VNets, subnets, network security groups (NSGs), routing (UDRs), and basic load-balancing scenarios, with enough depth to reason about hub-and-spoke or similar topologies and diagnose common connectivity issues
• Cloud security principles – solid understanding of concepts such as shared responsibility, least privilege, identity-driven security, network segmentation, encryption, and logging/monitoring, and how to apply them for customers driven by regulatory compliance requirements, such as: NIST, Fedramp
• Windows and Linux administration – hands-on experience managing, troubleshooting, and hardening server workloads, including patching, performance tuning, and applying security baselines (e.g., DISA STIG or equivalent)
• Identity and access – understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, Entra ID RBAC, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and managed identities for Azure resources
• Experience with government security frameworks (e.g., NIST controls)
• Hands-on delivery in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar)
• Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to work effectively on distributed teams

Skills and attributes for success

• Demonstrates ownership of assigned work, proactively identifying issues and driving solutions within defined scope
• Operates with a growth mindset, showing curiosity and commitment to continuous learning as technologies and priorities evolve
• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to support effective decision-making and delivery
• Applies sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, quality, security, and sustainability
• Collaborates effectively across teams, influencing outcomes through partnership rather than authority
• Adapts to shifting priorities and ambiguity while maintaining focus on delivery commitments
• Provides guidance and informal mentorship to less-experienced engineers through example and feedback
• Approaches problems analytically, questioning assumptions and exploring practical alternatives
• Demonstrates accountability and reliability in environments requiring independent execution

Pay

To qualify for the role, you must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience, and a Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) certification. The base salary range for this role in all geographic locations in the US is $89,600 to $167,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $107,600 to $190,500. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

Schedule

Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.