
Azure DevOps Architect
Location: Menlo Park, CA (Remote)
Duration: 12 Months contract
Mandatory 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 environments -
Azure Chaos Studio Resilience engineering through controlled fault injection and distributed system failure experimentation across microservices and cloud-native workloads -
Azure Confidential Computing Architecture and deployment of secure enclave workloads for high-security, regulated enterprise environments -
SBOM Automation Pipelines End-to-end automated Software Bill of Materials generation, dependency visibility, and vulnerability tracking integrated into CI/CD workflows - FluxCD GitOps Platform Engineering Enterprise-grade GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery and cluster management for large-scale AKS environments.
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 technology -
Proven hands-on experience with all seven mandatory niche skills listed above generalist profiles will not be considered - Experience supporting 500+ engineering teams or equivalent large-scale platform environments - Background in regulated industries with strong understanding of compliance, audit, and security requirements - Azure DevOps Enterprise CI/CD platform design and management - Kubernetes (AKS) Large-scale cluster platform engineering - Infrastructure as Code Terraform and/or Bicep at enterprise scale - DevSecOps Architecture Security-first pipeline design and governance - Secure Artifact Signing Pipelines Integration with modern supply chain security frameworks