Azure DevOps Engineer

What You Will Do

• This role supports the development, operation, security, or compliance of systems in regulated U.S. federal environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, secure, and scale our SaaS platform on Azure using services like AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and related services.
• Lead the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release engineering workflows using tools like Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
• Drive SRE principles across the organization, focusing on observability, incident response, availability, performance monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Contribute directly to our FedRAMP compliance readiness efforts, including secure configuration management, audit logging, documentation, and operational procedures.
• Provide Tier 2/3 operational support, including support during maintenance windows and participation in an on-call rotation during North American business hours.
• Support ongoing capacity planning, cost optimization, and scaling efforts for key infrastructure services.
• Maintain and improve production monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure high reliability and rapid-incident response.
• Participate in security, availability, and disaster recovery planning.
• Document operational processes, architectural decisions, and runbooks in a structured, trackable system (e.g., Jira, Confluence).

What You Bring to Forescout

• U.S. citizenship is required to support FedRAMP-compliant environments.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 2+ years of experience with Azure Cloud and its native services (especially AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, etc.).
• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures and serverless environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and managing cloud-native workloads.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform.
• Excellent scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Deep experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, SOC 2, or other security/compliance frameworks (working experience on a FedRAMP-authorized environment is a strong plus).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and compliance teams.
• Proven ability to work effectively in remote teams across time zones.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GitHub Actions/Workflows, and GitLab CI.
• Experience with distributed databases such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis.
• Exposure to security practices in SaaS environments (encryption, secret management, network hardening).
• Familiarity with change management processes.
• Relevant Azure certifications.
• Prior experience contributing to or leading FedRAMP or other regulated compliance initiatives.

Key Skills

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving in complex distributed environments.
• Excellent leadership and mentorship capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational and project management abilities.
• In-depth understanding of CI/CD strategies, SRE, and DevSecOps best practices

Core Technical Competencies

• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) including architecture and cost management.
• Advanced proficiency with Kubernetes, Helm, and container ecosystems.
• Mastery in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi).
• Fluent in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana).
• Excellent grasp of networking, security, and compliance standards (e.g., SOC2, ISO 27001)

What Forescout Offers You

• Competitive compensation and benefits, including coverage of 85% of employee and dependent health care premiums, 100% company-paid employee life and disability insurance premiums, a 401(k) match, generous flexible time off for U.S. employees, voluntary life, accident, and critical illness insurance options, employee assistance program, maternity and parental bonding leave, and more.
• A collaborative, innovative environment where you can help advance global security while working with leading technology.
• Supportive leadership that encourages professional growth and development.
• Learn more @ www.forescout.com .

Our Mission

Continuously identify, protect, and ensure the compliance of all cyber assets across the modern organization.

Our Values

• One Team – We all work together, and we all win together.
• Cyber Obsessed – We are curious about technology, and we are innovative and passionate about solving big programs.
• Customer Driven – We listen, we learn, and we make it right.
• Relentless – We're smart, determined, and find a way. We figure stuff out.
• Collaborative, without Ego – No one succeeds alone. We strive to be the humble person that people want to work with.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. If this opportunity intrigues you, we encourage you to apply!

(Only US Citizens will be considered for this position.)

(Hybrid role Tuesday through Thursday in our Plano office.)

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