DevOps Integration Automation Engineer

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI) is seeking a DevOps Integration Automation Engineer to support our growing modernization team. SFI was recently awarded the 2025 USA Today National Top Places to Work award and the 2025 Washington Post Top Workplaces. The ideal candidate will perform hands-on engineering to expand the use of Azure DevOps (ADO), automate application release and deployment processes, and integrate development, testing, security, configuration management, and release-management capabilities supporting PeopleSoft HCM and related enterprise systems.

This role is focused on Azure DevOps Repos/Git, Azure Pipelines, mature DevSecOps practices, CI/CD automation, and integration across the software delivery lifecycle. The candidate will design and implement governed pipelines, automated stage gates, security and quality checks, deployment automation, and end-to-end traceability between Agile work, source changes, testing, releases, and deployments.

A key focus of the role will be integrating Azure DevOps with the existing PeopleSoft delivery environment, including opportunities to use Azure Pipelines and automation to coordinate with PHIRE and other PeopleSoft release and migration processes. Prior PeopleSoft or PHIRE experience is beneficial but not required; strong DevSecOps, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, automation, and systems-integration experience is more important.

The candidate will work closely with developers, release-management teams, test automation engineers, infrastructure personnel, DBAs, and cybersecurity teams to improve the speed, consistency, security, traceability, and repeatability of software delivery for mission-critical Federal Government systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines and supporting automation for application builds, releases, deployments, testing, validation, and related delivery activities.
• Expand effective use of Azure Repos/Git for source control, version management, branching, pull requests, code reviews, tagging, and management of automation and deployable artifacts.
• Develop reusable Azure Pipelines templates, tasks, scripts, variables, and deployment patterns that can be applied consistently across teams and releases.
• Design and implement DevSecOps stage gates and quality gates that control progression through build, test, release, and deployment workflows.
• Configure pipelines to automatically halt or prevent promotion when required automated tests, security checks, validations, or other release criteria fail.
• Integrate automated functional, regression, integration, and other applicable testing into Azure Pipelines and use test results as automated release and deployment decision points.
• Integrate security scanning and validation into delivery workflows, including vulnerability scanning, static analysis, dependency or artifact scanning, and other approved DevSecOps controls where applicable.
• Design automation that connects Azure Pipelines with application configuration-management, migration, testing, security, release-management, and deployment tools.
• Develop scripts, APIs, service hooks, webhooks, and utilities using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or other appropriate technologies to automate software delivery workflows.
• Automate repeatable release activities including validation, packaging, approvals, migrations, deployments, notifications, evidence collection, and post-deployment verification.
• Integrate Azure DevOps Boards with development and release workflows to improve traceability between features, user stories, defects, source changes, pull requests, builds, tests, releases, and deployments.
• Develop automated updates and notifications that communicate build, test, security, migration, deployment, and release status through ADO and other approved collaboration mechanisms.
• Use Azure DevOps REST APIs, service hooks, pipeline APIs, and related integration capabilities to connect Boards, Repos, Pipelines, testing tools, security tools, and external delivery platforms.
• Work with PeopleSoft and release-management teams to integrate Azure Pipelines with PeopleSoft migration and release processes, including PHIRE or comparable configuration-management tools.
• Develop automation that can initiate, coordinate, monitor, or validate application migrations and deployments through approved release-management interfaces.
• Build automated checks for release prerequisites, dependencies, artifacts, approvals, configuration, environment readiness, test completion, security validation, and deployment results.
• Capture and associate automated test results, security results, logs, deployment status, exceptions, and release evidence with appropriate Azure DevOps work items and delivery records.
• Develop automation supporting artifact creation, versioning, storage, promotion, and deployment across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Establish appropriate branching, pull-request, tagging, versioning, approval, and release-management practices for code and automation maintained in Git.
• Implement logging, error handling, retries, recovery, auditing, and monitoring across automated delivery workflows.
• Troubleshoot failures across Azure Pipelines, Git repositories, scripts, APIs, test automation, security tools, service connections, deployment tools, authentication, and supporting infrastructure.
• Partner with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to implement secure service connections, service identities, credentials, secrets management, certificates, network connectivity, and least-privilege access for automated workflows.
• Identify manual release and deployment activities that can be safely automated while preserving required testing, security, configuration-management, approval, and audit controls.
• Develop and maintain pipeline documentation, integration specifications, automation standards, deployment procedures, technical diagrams, and operational support guidance.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, backlog refinement, demonstrations, testing, release readiness, and other Agile/SAFe delivery activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active Secret security clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps, DevSecOps, release automation, software engineering, systems integration, or related experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience working in a mature DevSecOps and CI/CD environment, including governed pipelines, automated testing, security validation, stage gates, approvals, artifact promotion, deployment controls, traceability, and production release processes.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, particularly Azure Repos/Git and Azure Pipelines.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing Azure DevOps solutions that integrate development, testing, security, release, and deployment activities across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience designing, developing, troubleshooting, and maintaining CI/CD, release, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience implementing automated stage gates, quality gates, approvals, and pipeline controls that prevent release or deployment when required tests or validations fail.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and using test results to control progression between pipeline stages and environments.
• Strong knowledge of Git including repositories, branching strategies, pull requests, merges, tagging, versioning, and code-review workflows.
• Experience developing reusable pipeline templates, scripts, tasks, and automation components.
• Experience integrating Azure DevOps or comparable DevOps platforms with external applications and delivery tools using REST APIs, service hooks, webhooks, command-line interfaces, or other integration mechanisms.
• Experience developing automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or comparable scripting/programming technologies.
• Experience with Azure DevOps REST APIs, service connections, variable groups, secure files, pipeline artifacts, environments, approvals, checks, and related pipeline capabilities.
• Experience using Azure DevOps Boards or comparable Agile lifecycle-management tools and understanding relationships between work items, source changes, builds, tests, releases, and deployments.
• Experience automating software release and deployment processes while maintaining appropriate approvals, traceability, security, and auditability.
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices including automated security validation, vulnerability scanning, secure credential management, least-privilege access, and integration of security controls into software delivery workflows.
• Experience with REST APIs, JSON, authentication, service accounts, certificates, secrets, and secure system-to-system integration.
• Experience with automated testing, validation, logging, monitoring, exception handling, and troubleshooting of automated workflows.
• Strong understanding of the software delivery lifecycle including development, source control, testing, security validation, configuration management, release management, deployment, rollback, and production support.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across pipelines, Git, scripts, APIs, authentication, testing, security tooling, deployment tools, and application infrastructure.

Desired Skills

• Experience using Azure DevOps APIs and automation to link Boards, Repos, Pipelines, test results, security checks, releases, and deployments into an integrated delivery workflow.
• Experience creating custom Azure DevOps integrations, service hooks, extensions, pipeline tasks, dashboards, queries, or automated work-item updates.
• Experience implementing Azure DevOps environments, approvals and checks, branch policies, pull-request validation, and other controls supporting governed DevSecOps workflows.
• Experience integrating automated test results and security findings into release gates and deployment decisions.
• Experience with static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), vulnerability scanning, artifact scanning, or comparable automated DevSecOps capabilities.
• Experience automating enterprise application release processes where not all application changes originate from traditional source-code builds.
• Experience integrating Azure Pipelines with external configuration-management, migration, release-management, or deployment platforms.
• Experience with PeopleSoft release and migration technologies such as PHIRE, STAT, Change Assistant, or comparable tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with PeopleSoft and PeopleTools application architecture, configuration, migrations, or release processes is a plus; prior PeopleSoft experience is not required.
• Experience integrating automated testing frameworks such as PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF), Tricentis Tosca, Selenium, Playwright, or comparable technologies into Azure Pipelines.
• Experience using Azure DevOps to provide end-to-end traceability from Agile work items through source changes, testing, security validation, releases, and deployment.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, particularly Oracle, is a plus.
• Experience with artifact repositories, package management, vulnerability scanning, static analysis, or other DevSecOps tooling.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OCI, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, or cloud deployment automation is a plus.
• Experience implementing secrets management, certificate-based authentication, managed/service identities, and least-privilege access for automated processes.
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments and supporting Program Increment and release execution.
• Experience supporting secured Federal or DoD enterprise systems is preferred.
• Azure DevOps, Microsoft, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, SAFe, or related certification is a plus.

Additional Information

• Clearance: Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or higher.
• Work Environment: Onsite/Hybrid in Crystal City, VA, as required by the contract and program environment.
• This is a full-time, W2 position.
• No agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-Corp submissions.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer — all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status.
• SFI participates in E-Verify.