ICF

Azure Ops/AI Engineer (US Remote)

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3 days ago
Reston, VA, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$131k - $223k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide operational support for enterprise AI capabilities, including onboarding users, configuring Azure services, and coordinating access, permissions, and dependencies.
  • Translate AI and application requirements into secure, supportable cloud and infrastructure configurations across Azure environments.
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD workflows for AI and platform components.
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Azure Resource Manager templates, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
  • Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
  • Coordinate root cause analysis and document defects, risks, corrective actions, and operational resolutions.
  • Support security and compliance activities, including vulnerability scanning, ATO documentation, change control, audits, and remediation tracking.
  • Evaluate emerging AI, cloud, and DevSecOps technologies through proof-of-concept environments and provide recommendations.
  • Support high availability, disaster recovery, backup, recovery, and continuity practices.
  • Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, technical specifications, and governance documentation while participating in Agile planning and reviews.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional experience supporting data and AI technologies, including cloud-based AI or analytics capabilities.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Agile work management using GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or comparable tools.
  • Experience implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform, Azure Resource Manager templates, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable technologies.
  • Hands-on Azure infrastructure experience across resource configuration, identity and access, networking, storage, monitoring, and service integration.
  • Experience with DevSecOps, cloud security, compliance governance, vulnerability remediation, and production troubleshooting in enterprise or federal environments.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must satisfy FDIC personnel eligibility and background-investigation requirements.
  • Candidates must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and perform all work in the U.S.
  • Preferred experience includes Azure AI services, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse, AWS SageMaker, AWS Bedrock, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Ansible, Artifactory, SonarQube, Fortify, OWASP tools, cloud disaster recovery, databases, and observability platforms.
  • Microsoft Azure Certifications are preferred.

Benefits

  • US-remote work arrangement with all work performed in the United States.
  • Full-time employment with a stated nationwide remote pay range.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations available for disability, religious, and other qualifying needs.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAzureDatabricksDockerIBM DB2JenkinsKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLOpenShiftPostgreSQLPythonSonarQubeSplunkTerraform

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About ICF

10,000+ employees

ICF is a global consulting and technology services firm serving government and commercial clients across domains such as energy, health, climate, and digital modernization. It delivers advisory, program implementation, analytics, and software-enabled solutions on platforms like ServiceNow. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, ICF is a public company traded on NASDAQ and works extensively with U.S. federal, state and local agencies as well as regulated industries.

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