Azure DevOps Architect

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


Note
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