Azure DevOps Architect: Enterprise CI/CD & Supply Chain

Connect Tech+Talent; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly?

Job summary

Connect Tech+Talent is seeking an accomplished DevOps/Platform Architect to design and govern enterprise CI/CD platforms with Azure DevOps and policy-as-code enforcement. You will architect multi-subscription Azure deployments and lead GitOps initiatives using FluxCD for large AKS environments.

Role requires 10+ years in DevOps architecture, experience delivering at Fortune-scale organizations, and a strong background in regulated industries, security, and compliance.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience with all seven mandatory niche skills listed above.
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern centralized CI/CD platforms supporting large engineering organizations using Azure DevOps integrated with OPA policy-as-code enforcement.
• Design and implement enterprise infrastructure lifecycle management using Azure Deployment Stacks across multi-subscription Azure environments.
• Build and operate GitOps delivery frameworks using FluxCD for large-scale AKS cluster management.
• Lead software supply chain security initiatives including Sigstore artifact signing and automated SBOM generation pipelines.
• Architect secure workload environments leveraging Azure Confidential Computing for regulated and high-security use cases.
• Conduct resilience engineering experiments across distributed microservices using Azure Chaos Studio.
• Define and enforce DevSecOps standards, governance frameworks, and security controls across engineering teams.
• Collaborate with security, platform, and product engineering teams to align DevOps strategy with enterprise compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor senior engineers and establish best practices for GitOps, supply chain security, and policy-driven delivery.

Tools

Azure Deployment Stacks

Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Policy-as-Code

Sigstore

Azure Chaos Studio

Azure Confidential Computing

SBOM Automation Pipelines

FluxCD GitOps

Azure DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Connect Tech+Talent is seeking an accomplished DevOps/Platform Architect to design and govern enterprise CI/CD platforms with Azure DevOps and policy-as-code enforcement. You will architect multi-subscription Azure deployments and lead GitOps initiatives using FluxCD for large AKS environments.

Role requires 10+ years in DevOps architecture, experience delivering at Fortune-scale organizations, and a strong background in regulated industries, security, and compliance.