Description

SAIC is looking for an Azure DevOps Architect to join our Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) team in Washington, DC. The Azure DevOps Architect's primary responsibilities include providing technical leadership in the creation and support of continuous integration (CI), continuous development (CD) pipelines for Cloud services using Azure DevOps Server; as well as contributing to the design, management, and support of the Azure PaaS/IaaS environment.
Job Duties

• Participate in the creation of an Azure DevOps Server environment. This will include providing hardware specs and installation instructions. Perform or coordinate Azure DevOps Server system maintenance activities such as backups and patching.
• Configure user groups and other access control elements to integrates with Active Directory (AD) (possibly multiple AD domains) or other user repositories.
• Work with multiple teams to customize waterfall or agile workflows and to define collection permissions. Assist teams with migration of code from older versions of Azure DevOps Server and other repositories such as CVS, SVN, and Git.
• The successful candidate will provide hands-on guidance on topics such as branching and merging, build automation, workstation configuration, CI/CD pipelines, other release procedures and general use of the tools. Provide support for both native Azure DevOps Server source repositories and Git source repositories.
• The position supports both Microsoft .Net and Java development teams; an overall understanding of both technologies is necessary. Prior experience as a developer in one or both technologies is beneficial.
• Maintain an inventory of portfolio applications and the servers that host each application. Update multiple system catalogs and assist with the consolidation of these catalogs.
• Work with the data center personnel and application teams to upgrade servers, operating systems, middleware software, database software, and agency applications. Also coordinate OS, middleware, and database patching. Notify affected teams of the upgrade and patching activities. Similarly, work with application teams to identify server needs for new applications. Coordinate with the data center vendor and application teams to either build new servers or deploy the new application to existing servers.
• Assist the data center and the incident management personnel with major incident resolution. Provide impact analysis for server or application outages and assist with finding additional support contacts related to the outage. Participate in incident response calls as necessary.

Qualifications

• Eight (8) years' experience and proven success managing any source code repository, with at least two (2) years managing Azure DevOps Server.
• Demonstrated understanding of software configuration management, build, deployment and release management, application lifecycle management, infrastructure, and DevOps tools and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently with limited direction, and responds rapidly in a diverse organizational environment, with daily customer interactions. Ability to provide guidance to less experienced personnel.
• Demonstrated ability to manage Azure DevOps Server source code repositories. Additional experience with other repositories such as Git, SVN, and CVS is preferred.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills are required.

Clearance: Must be able to attain Public Trust

COVID Policy: Prospective and/or new employees are required to adhere with SAIC's vaccination policy. All SAIC employees must be fully vaccinated and they must submit proof of vaccination on their first day of employment. Prospective or new employees may seek an exemption to the vaccination requirement at Contact Us and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Where work is performed strictly at a customer site, customer site vaccination requirements preempt SAIC's vaccination policy.