Azure DevOps Architect

Title: Azure DevOps Architect
Location: Menlo Park, CA (Remote)
Duration: 12 Months contract

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

Pre-Screening Questions
Q1: Does the candidate have hands-on production experience with Azure Deployment Stacks at enterprise scale?
Q2: Does the candidate have experience implementing OPA policy-as-code within CI/CD pipelines?
Q3: Does the candidate have experience with Sigstore artifact signing and SBOM automation pipelines?
Q4: Does the candidate have experience with FluxCD GitOps for large-scale AKS environments?
Q5: Does the candidate have experience with Azure Chaos Studio resilience engineering?
Q6: Does the candidate have experience with Azure Confidential Computing workloads?

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