Role Description
Role: Azure DevOps Architect
Rate: $80-85/hr. on C2C
Location: Menlo Park, CA (Remote)
Duration: 12 Months contract
Visas: All
Mandatory Skills:
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Azure Deployment Stacks β Enterprise-scale infrastructure lifecycle governance across hundreds of Azure subscriptions, including resource management, scoping, and deny assignment enforcement.
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Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Policy-as-Code β Design and enforcement of security and compliance policies embedded natively across CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale (500+ engineering teams).
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Sigstore β Production-level implementation of artifact signing, verification, and software supply chain integrity pipelines across distributed engineering environments.
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Azure Chaos Studio β Resilience engineering through controlled fault injection and distributed system failure experimentation across microservices and cloud-native workloads.
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Azure Confidential Computing β Architecture and deployment of secure enclave workloads for high-security, regulated enterprise environments.
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SBOM Automation Pipelines β End-to-end automated Software Bill of Materials generation, dependency visibility, and vulnerability tracking integrated into CI/CD workflows.
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FluxCD GitOps Platform Engineering β Enterprise-grade GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery and cluster management for large-scale AKS environments.
Qualifications
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10+ years of experience in DevOps architecture and cloud platform engineering.
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Demonstrated enterprise-scale delivery across Fortune-level organizations in finance, healthcare, retail, or technology.
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Proven hands-on experience with all seven mandatory niche skills listed above β generalist profiles will not be considered.
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Experience supporting 500+ engineering teams or equivalent large-scale platform environments.
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Background in regulated industries with strong understanding of compliance, audit, and security requirements.
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Azure DevOps β Enterprise CI/CD platform design and management.
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Kubernetes (AKS) β Large-scale cluster platform engineering.
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Infrastructure as Code β Terraform and/or Bicep at enterprise scale.
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DevSecOps Architecture β Security-first pipeline design and governance.
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Secure Artifact Signing Pipelines β Integration with modern supply chain security frameworks.
Requirements
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Architect and govern centralized CI/CD platforms supporting large engineering organizations using Azure DevOps integrated with OPA policy-as-code enforcement.
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Design and implement enterprise infrastructure lifecycle management using Azure Deployment Stacks across multi-subscription Azure environments.
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Build and operate GitOps delivery frameworks using FluxCD for large-scale AKS cluster management.
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Lead software supply chain security initiatives including Sigstore artifact signing and automated SBOM generation pipelines.
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Architect secure workload environments leveraging Azure Confidential Computing for regulated and high-security use cases.
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Conduct resilience engineering experiments across distributed microservices using Azure Chaos Studio.
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Define and enforce DevSecOps standards, governance frameworks, and security controls across engineering teams.
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Collaborate with security, platform, and product engineering teams to align DevOps strategy with enterprise compliance and regulatory requirements.
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Mentor senior engineers and establish best practices for GitOps, supply chain security, and policy-driven delivery.
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