Azure DevOps Architect

Azure DevOps ArchitectLocation: Durham, NC (Remote)Duration: 12 Months contractVisas: Independent Visa onlyMandatory 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 environmentsAzure Chaos Studio — Resilience engineering through controlled fault injection and distributed system failure experimentation across microservices and cloud-native workloadsAzure Confidential Computing — Architecture and deployment of secure enclave workloads for high- security, regulated enterprise environmentsSBOM Automation Pipelines — End-to-end automated Software Bill of Materials generation, dependency visibility, and vulnerability tracking integrated into CI/CD workflowsFluxCD GitOps Platform Engineering — Enterprise-grade GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery and cluster management for large-scale AKS environmentsRequired 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 technologyProven hands-on experience with all seven mandatory niche skills listed above — generalist profiles will not be consideredExperience supporting 500+ engineering teams or equivalent large-scale platform environmentsBackground in regulated industries with strong understanding of compliance, audit, and security requirementsAzure DevOps — Enterprise CI/CD platform design and managementKubernetes (AKS) — Large-scale cluster platform engineeringInfrastructure as Code — Terraform and/or Bicep at enterprise scaleDevSecOps Architecture — Security-first pipeline design and governanceSecure Artifact Signing Pipelines — Integration with modern supply chain security frameworksKey Responsibilities:Architect and govern centralized CI/CD platforms supporting large engineering organizations using Azure DevOps integrated with OPA policy-as-code enforcementDesign and implement enterprise infrastructure lifecycle management using Azure Deployment Stacks across multi-subscription Azure environmentsBuild and operate GitOps delivery frameworks using FluxCD for large-scale AKS cluster managementLead software supply chain security initiatives including Sigstore artifact signing and automated SBOM generation pipelinesArchitect secure workload environments leveraging Azure Confidential Computing for regulated and high-security use casesConduct resilience engineering experiments across distributed microservices using Azure Chaos StudioDefine and enforce DevSecOps standards, governance frameworks, and security controls across engineering teamsCollaborate with security, platform, and product engineering teams to align DevOps strategy with enterprise compliance and regulatory requirementsMentor senior engineers and establish best practices for GitOps, supply chain security, and policy-driven delivery