Azure DevOps Lead

Azure Technical Lead AI/GenAI Location: Manhattan, NY or Iselin, NJ Hybrid

Experience: 7 10+ years

Domain: Insurance preferred, P&C experience is a plus

Job Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Azure Technical Lead with strong expertise across Azure Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and AI/GenAI application development. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade AI solutions on Azure. This role requires someone who can bridge AI application development with Azure cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Design and implement scalable, secure Azure cloud architectures for AI workloads.
• Build and manage Azure infrastructure and platform services supporting enterprise AI applications.
• Deploy applications using AKS, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure Container Apps.
• Design Azure networking using VNets, private endpoints, network isolation, and related security controls.
• Implement Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, encryption, and secrets management.

AI / GenAI Development

• Develop and productionize AI/GenAI applications using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry/Studio, Azure AI Search, and Azure AI Document Intelligence.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines, prompt orchestration, vector search, and LLM-based solutions.
• Develop AI applications using Python, .NET/C#, Java, or Node.js/TypeScript.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise APIs, applications, data platforms, and business systems.

DevOps & Infrastructure as Code

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Automate application, infrastructure, configuration, prompt, and model deployments.
• Provision Azure resources using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Establish deployment standards, automation, version control, testing, security scanning, and release governance.

Required Skills Must Have

• Strong hands-on Azure Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineering
• Strong Azure DevOps / DevOps / CI/CD experience
• Terraform, Bicep, or ARM
• AKS / Kubernetes / Docker
• Azure networking, VNets, private endpoints
• Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Managed Identity, Key Vault
• Azure monitoring and production support
• Azure OpenAI / Azure AI GenAI / LLM / RAG
• Azure AI Search
• Azure AI Foundry/Studio
• Azure AI Document Intelligence
• Strong programming experience in Python, .NET/C#, Java, or Node.js/TypeScript

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