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This is not a role for someone who hands off design documents or lives only in architecture diagrams. You’ll be writing Terraform, supporting production infrastructure, troubleshooting real issues, optimizing underperforming systems, and automating work so teams can move faster.\nWhat makes this role different is how we work. AI is part of your daily toolkit. We’re not looking for someone who is merely “interested in” AI tools-you already know how to use them to accelerate real work. You understand how tools like Claude Code can dramatically reduce the time it takes to build infrastructure, write scripts, or troubleshoot problems, and you’re motivated to apply that speed in a production environment.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role. Expect to spend the majority of your time building and improving infrastructure, sometime designing and refining solutions with more senior engineers, and minimal time in meetings. If your goal is to move away from hands-on engineering or into a role focused primarily on diagramming and presentations, this likely isn’t the right fit.\nResponsibilities: Your day if you join us:\nWhat You'll Build\nEmbedded product support\nAct as the dedicated DevOps engineer for your assigned product team, taking part in their planning, stand-ups and release cycles\nOwn the product's infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and environments (dev, QA, staging, prod) from start to finish\nBe the first escalation point for the product's production issues, deployments and environment requests\nBring central DevOps standards (Terraform modules, pipeline templates, security and compliance controls) into the product team, and feed the product team's needs back to DevOps\nInfrastructure as Code at Scale\nTerraform modules for Azure Government and Commercial deployments-networking, compute, storage, identity, databases, monitoring\nAI-assisted Terraform module generation with automated testing, documentation, and compliance validation\nState management patterns for multi-environment deployments (dev/QA/staging/prod) with proper isolation\nDrift detection and remediation automation-catch what changed and fix it before it becomes an incident\nCI/CD with GitHub Actions\nGitHub Actions workflows for infrastructure and application delivery: plan/apply gates, environment approvals and reusable workflows\nOIDC federation from GitHub to Azure, so pipelines don't need stored secrets\nBranch protection and rulesets, with automated policy and security checks in the pipeline\nAzure Networking & Hybrid Connectivity\nHub-and-spoke architectures with proper segmentation for FedRAMP boundaries\nPrivate Link configurations, DNS forwarding, and service endpoint strategies\nExpressRoute and VPN connectivity for hybrid scenarios\nAzure Firewall and NSG policies with AI-assisted rule generation and audit\nIdentity and security\nAzure RBAC, managed identities and PIM, with least-privilege access\nKey Vault access models (RBAC and access policies) and secret rotation\nConditional Access and identity governance across multiple tenants\nAutomation & Scripting\nPowerShell modules for Azure resource management, database operations, reporting, and remediation\nBash scripts for Linux workloads and CI/CD pipeline integration\nPython utilities for API integrations, data processing, and custom tooling\nAI-assisted script generation with proper error handling, logging, and testing\nDatabase support\nAzure SQL and SQL Server operations: backups, maintenance automation and first-line performance troubleshooting\nZero- or minimal-downtime database migrations with automated rollback\nOperational Excellence\nAzure Monitor, Log Analytics (KQL) and Application Insights\nRunbooks and automation for common fixes\nCost optimization: reserved instances, right-sizing and cleaning up orphaned resources\nTaking part in the on-call rotation\nQualifications: You are a great fit for this role if you :\nRequired:\n 6+ years of hands-on Azure infrastructure experience (Azure Government strongly preferred)\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience\nStrong Terraform: modules, workspaces, remote state, provider configuration, testing (Terratest or similar)\nStrong GitHub Actions: workflow authoring, reusable workflows, environments and approvals, OIDC to Azure, secrets management\nStrong PowerShell (Azure modules, REST API calls, error handling, module development), plus working Python\nIn-depth Azure networking: VNets, peering, Private Link, DNS, NSGs, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute\nAzure identity: RBAC, managed identities, PIM and Key Vault access models\nObservability: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics / KQL, Application Insights\nWorking knowledge of SQL Server / Azure SQL: backups, performance triage and migrations\nExperience working directly with development teams in an embedded or product-aligned DevOps role\nDaily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor)\nGit workflows: branching strategies, PR reviews, resolving merge conflicts\nExperience with FedRAMP, CMMC or similar compliance frameworks\nComfortable debugging production issues under pressure, and taking part in an on-call rotation\nDue to customer requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required. Ability to gain and maintain Trusted Role is required.\nLocation: Herndon, VA- Hybrid (3x/week)\nPreferred Qualifications:\nYou are exactly who we are looking for if you:\nAdvanced SQL Server tuning: execution plans, index strategies, stored procedure optimization, Query Store\nSchema version control (Flyway, Liquibase or similar)\n Bicep in addition to Terraform\nContainer platforms: AKS, Container Apps, Docker\nAzure Service Bus operations and troubleshooting\nBackground in defense, aerospace or other highly regulated industries\nWhat Sets You Apart\nYou've already changed how you work because of AI tools. You don't just use autocomplete-you've figured out how to prompt for entire infrastructure patterns, optimize complex SQL queries, and iterate faster than you ever could manually. You have opinions about which AI tools work best for different tasks.\nYou prefer automation over manual effort. When you see a team doing something repetitive, your instinct is to automate it. When you see documentation that's out of date, you think about how to generate it from the source of truth.\nYou can context-switch. Monday might be debugging a DNS forwarding issue. Tuesday might be optimizing a slow stored procedure. Wednesday might be writing a Terraform module for a new service. Thursday might be helping a developer understand why their app can't reach a database. You're comfortable across the stack.\nThe pay range for this position is $100,000k - 130,000k/yr; however, the final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and location. Exostar also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k) matching, flexible time off and sick leave\nWhy Exostar\nWe build trust infrastructure for defense contractors. FedRAMP Moderate certified, CMMC compliant, serving aerospace and defense supply chains. The work matters-our platforms enable secure collaboration across thousands of organizations in the defense industrial base.\nThe environment: Azure Government and Commercial, complex networking with hybrid connectivity, SQL Server databases that need to perform under load, real compliance requirements (not checkbox security), and a team that's actively adopting AI tools for development. We're rolling out Claude Code to 100+ developers. We're building with AI, not just talking about it.\nThe challenges are real: Service Bus queues that need to handle thousands of messages without crashing, DNS forwarding that has to work across multiple tenants, database queries that auditors will scrutinize, stored procedures that need to run in milliseconds not seconds. 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