Role: Azure DevOps Architect

Location: Durham, NC (Remote)

Duration: 12-Month Contract

Visa: Independent Candidates Only

Mandatory Capabilities

• Azure Deployment Stacks: Experience managing large Azure environments across hundreds of subscriptions, including resource management, scope control, and policy enforcement.
• Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Policy-as-Code: Ability to create and apply security and compliance policies directly within CI/CD pipelines across large engineering teams.
• Sigstore: Hands-on experience with artifact signing, verification, and software supply chain security across distributed engineering environments.
• Azure Chaos Studio: Experience testing system reliability through controlled fault injection and failure testing across microservices and cloud-based applications.
• Azure Confidential Computing: Experience designing and deploying secure environments for sensitive workloads in highly regulated industries.
• SBOM Automation Pipelines: Experience creating automated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) processes, tracking dependencies, and identifying vulnerabilities within CI/CD workflows.
• FluxCD GitOps Platform Engineering: Experience building enterprise GitOps solutions for infrastructure delivery and large-scale AKS cluster management.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps architecture and cloud platform engineering.
• Experience delivering large-scale solutions for major organizations in finance, healthcare, retail, or technology.
• Hands-on experience with all seven mandatory Capabilities listed above.
• Experience supporting 500+ engineering teams or similarly large platform environments.
• Experience working in regulated industries with strong knowledge of compliance, audits, and security requirements.
• Strong experience designing and managing enterprise Azure DevOps CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes and large-scale AKS environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Experience designing DevSecOps architectures with a strong focus on security.
• Experience building secure artifact signing and software supply chain security solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage centralized CI/CD platforms for large engineering organizations using Azure DevOps and OPA policy enforcement.
• Design enterprise infrastructure management solutions using Azure Deployment Stacks across multiple Azure subscriptions.
• Build and manage GitOps delivery systems using FluxCD for large AKS environments.
• Lead software supply chain security projects, including Sigstore artifact signing and automated SBOM generation.
• Design secure workload environments using Azure Confidential Computing for regulated and high-security use cases.
• Run system reliability tests across distributed microservices using Azure Chaos Studio.
• Create and maintain DevSecOps standards, governance processes, and security controls across engineering teams.
• Work closely with security, platform, and product engineering teams to align DevOps practices with enterprise compliance requirements.
• Guide senior engineers and establish best practices for GitOps, software supply chain security, and policy-based delivery.

Additional Information

All candidate information will be kept confidential and handled according to applicable EEO guidelines.