Azure Architect

Azure DevOps Architect Location: Durham, NC (Remote) Duration: 12 Months Contract

Mandatory Skills

• Azure Deployment Stacks
• Enterprise-scale infrastructure lifecycle governance across hundreds of Azure subscriptions
• Resource management, scoping, and deny assignment enforcement
• Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Policy-as-Code
• Design and enforcement of security and compliance policies
• Native integration across CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale (500+ engineering teams)
• Sigstore Production-level implementation of artifact signing and verification
• Software supply chain integrity pipelines across distributed engineering environments
• Azure Chaos Studio Resilience engineering through controlled fault injection
• Distributed system failure experimentation across microservices and cloud-native workloads
• Azure Confidential Computing Architecture and deployment of secure enclave workloads
• Support for highly regulated and security-sensitive environments
• SBOM Automation Pipelines End-to-end automated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation
• Dependency visibility and vulnerability tracking integrated into CI/CD workflows
• FluxCD GitOps Platform Engineering Enterprise-grade GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery
• Large-scale AKS cluster management

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps architecture and cloud platform engineering
• Demonstrated enterprise-scale delivery experience within Fortune-level organizations
• Experience in finance, healthcare, retail, or technology sectors
• Proven hands-on expertise in all seven mandatory niche skills listed above
• Experience supporting 500+ engineering teams or equivalent large-scale platform environments
• Background in regulated industries with strong knowledge of compliance, audit, and security requirements
• Deep expertise in Azure DevOps enterprise CI/CD platform design and management
• Strong Kubernetes (AKS) platform engineering experience
• Enterprise-scale Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Bicep)
• DevSecOps architecture and security-first pipeline design
• Secure artifact signing pipeline implementation and management
• Experience with modern software supply chain security frameworks

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and govern centralized CI/CD platforms using Azure DevOps
• Implement Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy-as-code enforcement across engineering organizations
• Design and manage enterprise infrastructure lifecycle governance using Azure Deployment Stacks
• Build and operate GitOps delivery frameworks using FluxCD
• Manage large-scale AKS cluster platforms and infrastructure delivery
• Lead software supply chain security initiatives
• Implement Sigstore-based artifact signing and verification pipelines
• Design and automate SBOM generation, dependency visibility, and vulnerability tracking processes
• Architect secure workload environments using Azure Confidential Computing
• Conduct resilience engineering and fault-injection experiments using Azure Chaos Studio
• Define and enforce DevSecOps standards, governance frameworks, and security controls
• Collaborate with security, platform, and product engineering teams
• Align DevOps strategies with enterprise compliance and regulatory requirements
• Mentor senior engineers on GitOps, supply chain security, and policy-driven delivery practices
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across the organization

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