DevOps Engineer
Indianapolis, IN, US, 46204
Work for Indiana
Begin a fulfilling career with the State of Indiana by joining one of the largest employers in the state, offering a range of opportunities across 60+ agencies. At the state, you'll find competitive compensation, a robust benefits package and a commitment to work-life balance. Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make a real and measurable impact on the lives of Hoosiers across Indiana.
About the Indiana Office of Technology (IOT):
The Indiana Office of Technology provides cost-effective, secure, consistent, reliable enterprise-technology services to our partner agencies so that they can better serve our mutual customer, the Hoosier taxpayer. IOT will also act as the technology and solution enabler for the State, helping its partner agencies achieve business objectives and innovation.
Role Overview:
The DevOps Engineer delivers enterprise‑grade DevOps engineering capabilities supporting GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC), AWS Transform, AI Foundry, and other shared platform services. You will design, implement, and govern statewide developer platforms, ensuring secure, compliant, reproducible, and scalable DevOps workflows for all agencies.
You support platform provisioning, Copilot governance, audit configuration, and compliance monitoring. You work cross‑functionally with security, enterprise architecture, vendor partners, CloudOps, and agency development teams to align platform practices with State of Indiana cybersecurity standards, NIST requirements, and modern cloud‑native engineering approaches.
As a DevOps engineer, you build and maintain shared CI/CD pipeline patterns, reusable workflow templates, and automation standards, ensuring agencies can onboard onto modern development tooling safely and consistently. You will integrate platform monitoring into IOT enterprise systems, support incident response for platform‑level issues, and help agencies adopt best‑practice branching strategies, infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC), automated testing, and secure deployment automation.
This blended role drives statewide digital modernization by enabling secure, standardized, and AI‑enhanced software delivery practices across Indiana’s public sector.
This is an onsite position at the Indiana Government Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Salary:
The salary for this position traditionally starts at $70,122.00 but may be commensurate with education or work experience. Use our Compensation Calculator to view the total compensation package.
A Day in the Life:
Responsibilities include:
- Build and maintain reusable CI/CD pipeline templates, workflow standards, and automated deployment patterns for statewide use.
- Create IaC patterns and environment bootstrap scripts for consistent, reproducible cloud setups.
- Implement shift left security, automated testing, and release automation within shared pipeline architectures.
- Partner with agency engineering teams to modernize legacy pipelines and onboard them into standard GitHub Actions based automation.
- Architect, implement, and govern statewide GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC), AWS Transform, and AI Foundry services under the Internal Development Platform (1170P/1170PA).
- Define enterprise level policies for security, Copilot governance, audit configuration, and compliance enforcement across all GHEC organizations.
- Ensure adherence to State Security and Compliance standards, NIST guidance, and identity governance requirements.
- Collaborate with enterprise architects and security stakeholders to maintain platform consistency and architectural alignment.
- Provision new GHEC organizations and repositories, manage tenant wide configuration, and set up cost center and license governance.
- Provide operational support for platform level issues through IOT’s ITSM processes; respond to incidents assigned to Application Development groups such as Incident INC0218092 has been assigned to group IOT - Application Development
- Integrate platform monitoring with IOT enterprise monitoring systems, ensuring full visibility into operational health and security events.
- Serve as SME for GitHub Copilot enablement, training, and responsible AI adoption patterns across agencies.
- Manage enterprise Copilot seat assignment, policy governance, and AI driven development guardrails.
- Develop automation for license management, audit policy enforcement, repository standards, and organization level governance tasks.
- Maintain platform observability through log aggregation, usage analytics, and compliance dashboards.
- Continuously evaluate platform improvements, new GitHub features, cloud innovations, and automation opportunities.
- Act as a technical advisor to agency development teams adopting modern DevOps workflows, cloud native patterns, and AI assisted development.
- Liaise with vendors (GitHub, Microsoft, AWS) on platform strategy, roadmap alignment, incident response, and enterprise adoption planning.
- Conduct architectural reviews for agencies implementing new CI/CD patterns or transitioning from legacy tooling.
The job profile is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
This position is exempt from overtime compensation for additional work hours that may be required to complete essential functions or other assigned work. Exempt employees may work more than 75 hours in a pay period without additional compensation and must report a minimum of 75 hours per pay period of work hours and/or paid leave taken to receive their base biweekly salary.
What You'll Need for Success:
Individuals in this role should minimally be able to articulate or demonstrate the following:
- This role requires strong foundations in DevOps, cloud automation, and software development.
- 3+ years of experience developing applications in C#/.NET, Web API/REST, and cloud-hosted patterns.
- 3+ years of experience in front-end development (Angular).
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Boards, Pipelines) or GitHub Enterprise.
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture and security best practices across Azure.
- Experience with Docker and container-based development (Azure Container Apps preferred).
- Proficiency with Git branching strategies, code reviews, and collaborative development workflows.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines for .NET and Angular-based applications.
- Experience with AI capabilities within Integrated development environments (IDE) such as VS Code, Visual Studio, and Github Enterprise Cloud.
- Experience with SQL Server and Azure SQL design, tuning, and maintenance
- Self-motivated, proactive, and passionate about automation and engineering excellence.
- Enjoys solving complex technical challenges independently and collaboratively
- Strong communication skills with an ability to work across cross-functional teams.
- Ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
A degree is not required. However, at least 7+ years of experience applying the outlined knowledge, skills, and abilities in a similar role may be considered. Related certifications and coursework may also be considered.
Supervisory Responsibilities/Direct Reports:
Benefits of Employment with the State of Indiana:
The State of Indiana offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes:
- Three (3) medical plan options (including RX coverage) as well as vision and dental plans
- Wellness Rewards Program: Complete wellness activities to earn gift card rewards
- Health savings account, which includes bi-weekly state contribution
- Deferred compensation 457(b) account (similar to 401(k) plan) with employer match
- Two (2) fully-funded pension plan options
- A robust, comprehensive program of leave policies covering a variety of employee needs, including but not limited to:
- 150 hours of paid New Parent Leave and up to eight weeks of paid Childbirth Recovery Leave for eligible mothers
- Up to 15 hours of paid community service leave
- Combined 180 hours of paid vacation, personal, and sick leave time off
- 12 paid holidays, 14 in election years
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Group life insurance
- Referral Bonus program
- Employee assistance program that allows for covered behavioral health visits
- Qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Free Parking for most positions
- Free LinkedIn Learning access
Equal Employment Opportunity:
The State of Indiana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to recruiting, selecting, developing, and promoting employees based on individual ability and job performance. Reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to complete the application and interview process as well as perform the essential functions of a role. If you require reasonable accommodations to complete this application, you can request assistance by contacting the Indiana State Personnel Department at jobs@spd.IN.gov.
Nearest Major Market: Indianapolis
