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Forescout is seeking an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer to support the development, operation, security, and compliance of systems in regulated U.S. federal environments. This is a hybrid role based in the Plano office (Tuesday–Thursday on-site).
You will collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, secure, and scale a SaaS platform on Azure using services such as AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and related cloud-native technologies. You will lead the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release engineering workflows using Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
Key responsibilities include:
- Driving SRE principles across the organization with focus on observability, incident response, availability, performance monitoring, and operational excellence
- Contributing to FedRAMP compliance readiness efforts, including secure configuration management, audit logging, documentation, and operational procedures
- Providing Tier 2/3 operational support, including support during maintenance windows and participation in on-call rotation during North American business hours
- Supporting capacity planning, cost optimization, and scaling efforts for key infrastructure services
- Maintaining and improving production monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure high reliability and rapid incident response
- Participating in security, availability, and disaster recovery planning
- Documenting operational processes, architectural decisions, and runbooks in structured systems (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
Forescout protects critical infrastructure for Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises across power grids, healthcare systems, financial networks, and transportation hubs. The company has built trusted cybersecurity solutions for over 25 years.
REQUIREMENTS:
- U.S. citizenship required (to support FedRAMP-compliant environments)
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Azure Cloud and its native services (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 Terraform
- Excellent scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python)
- Deep experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and alerting (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 (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
