Position: Azure DevOps Architect
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ months
Job Description:
Mandatory Skills:
Azure Deployment Stacks - Enterprise-scale infrastructure lifecycle governance across hundreds of Azure subscriptions, including resource management, scoping, and deny assignment enforcement.
Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Policy-as-Code - Design and enforcement of security and compliance policies embedded natively across CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale (500+ engineering teams).
Sigstore - Production-level implementation of artifact signing, verification, and software supply chain integrity pipelines across distributed engineering environments
Azure Chaos Studio - Resilience engineering through controlled fault injection and distributed system failure experimentation across microservices and cloud-native workloads
Azure Confidential Computing - Architecture and deployment of secure enclave workloads for high-security, regulated enterprise environments
SBOM Automation Pipelines - End-to-end automated Software Bill of Materials generation, dependency visibility, and vulnerability tracking integrated into CI/CD workflows
FluxCD GitOps Platform Engineering - Enterprise-grade GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery and cluster management for large-scale AKS environments
Required Experience:
10+ years of experience in DevOps architecture and cloud platform engineering.
Demonstrated enterprise-scale delivery across Fortune-level organizations in finance, healthcare, retail, or technology
Proven hands-on experience with all seven mandatory niche skills listed above - generalist profiles will not be considered
Experience supporting 500+ engineering teams or equivalent large-scale platform environments
Background in regulated industries with strong understanding of compliance, audit, and security requirements
Azure DevOps - Enterprise CI/CD platform design and management
Kubernetes (AKS) - Large-scale cluster platform engineering
Infrastructure as Code - Terraform and/or Bicep at enterprise scale
DevSecOps Architecture - Security-first pipeline design and governance
Secure Artifact Signing Pipelines - Integration with modern supply chain security frameworks
Key Responsibilities:
Architect and govern centralized CI/CD platforms supporting large engineering organizations using Azure DevOps integrated with OPA policy-as-code enforcement
Design and implement enterprise infrastructure lifecycle management using Azure Deployment Stacks across multi-subscription Azure environments
Build and operate GitOps delivery frameworks using FluxCD for large-scale AKS cluster management
Lead software supply chain security initiatives including Sigstore artifact signing and automated SBOM generation pipelines
Architect secure workload environments leveraging Azure Confidential Computing for regulated and high-security use cases
Conduct resilience engineering experiments across distributed microservices using Azure Chaos Studio
Define and enforce DevSecOps standards, governance frameworks, and security controls across engineering teams
Collaborate with security, platform, and product engineering teams to align DevOps strategy with enterprise compliance and regulatory requirements
Mentor senior engineers and establish best practices for GitOps, supply chain security, and policy-driven delivery
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