Azure DevOps Architect- Remote- 12Months

Azure DevOps Architect

Location: Durham, NC (Remote)
Duration: 12 Months Contract

Mandatory Skills

• Azure Deployment Stacks
  • Enterprise-scale infrastructure lifecycle governance across hundreds of Azure subscriptions.
  • Resource management, scoping, and deny assignment enforcement.
• Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Policy-as-Code
  • Design and enforcement of security and compliance policies.
  • Native integration across CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale (500+ engineering teams).
• Sigstore
  • Production-level implementation of artifact signing and verification.
  • Software supply chain integrity pipelines across distributed engineering environments.
• Azure Chaos Studio
  • Resilience engineering through controlled fault injection.
  • Distributed system failure experimentation across microservices and cloud-native workloads.
• Azure Confidential Computing
  • Architecture and deployment of secure enclave workloads.
  • Support for highly regulated and security-sensitive environments.
• SBOM Automation Pipelines
  • End-to-end automated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation.
  • Dependency visibility and vulnerability tracking integrated into CI/CD workflows.
• FluxCD GitOps Platform Engineering
  • Enterprise-grade GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery.
  • Large-scale AKS cluster management.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps architecture and cloud platform engineering.
• Demonstrated enterprise-scale delivery experience within Fortune-level organizations.
• Experience in finance, healthcare, retail, or technology sectors.
• Proven hands-on expertise in 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 knowledge of compliance, audit, and security requirements.
• Deep expertise in Azure DevOps enterprise CI/CD platform design and management.
• Strong Kubernetes (AKS) platform engineering experience.
• Enterprise-scale Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Bicep).
• DevSecOps architecture and security-first pipeline design.
• Secure artifact signing pipeline implementation and management.
• Experience with modern software supply chain security frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and govern centralized CI/CD platforms using Azure DevOps.
• Implement Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy-as-code enforcement across engineering organizations.
• Design and manage enterprise infrastructure lifecycle governance using Azure Deployment Stacks.
• Build and operate GitOps delivery frameworks using FluxCD.
• Manage large-scale AKS cluster platforms and infrastructure delivery.
• Lead software supply chain security initiatives.
• Implement Sigstore-based artifact signing and verification pipelines.
• Design and automate SBOM generation, dependency visibility, and vulnerability tracking processes.
• Architect secure workload environments using Azure Confidential Computing.
• Conduct resilience engineering and fault-injection experiments using Azure Chaos Studio.
• Define and enforce DevSecOps standards, governance frameworks, and security controls.
• Collaborate with security, platform, and product engineering teams.
• Align DevOps strategies with enterprise compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor senior engineers on GitOps, supply chain security, and policy-driven delivery practices.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across the organization.