Azure DevOps Architect – Enterprise-Scale CI/CD Lead

Tekniforce; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Teknoforce is hiring a Senior Principal Azure DevOps Engineer to own the design and direction of Infrastructure as Code and Azure CI/CD pipelines in Raleigh, NC. You will serve as the primary technical bridge between DevOps and application development teams, making architecture decisions with significant autonomy.

As a Principal Azure DevOps Engineer, you will drive platform governance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Security on policy posture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Cloud Engineering.
• At least 4 years focused on Azure at enterprise scale.
• Expertise authoring Azure DevOps YAML pipelines with multi-stage templates.
• Production-grade Bicep authorship with multi-subscription scope.
• Strong PowerShell scripting for automation and tooling.
• Clear Git workflows, branching, PR reviews, and releases at scale.
• Hands-on experience with Entra ID, Key Vault, Storage, App Service, Functions, AKS/Container Apps.
• Ability to work as a technical peer with developers; communicate standards through code/docs.
• Experience shaping platform standards and getting adoption without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Architect Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and reusable templates across the org.
• Lead design and governance of Bicep module library.
• Define module boundaries, parameter conventions, and versioning across environments.
• Partner with application teams in design reviews and translate needs into platform capabilities.
• Drive improvements in deployment frequency, lead time, change failure, and MTTR (DORA metrics).
• Build instrumentation to prove improvements and outcomes.
• Collaborate with Security on Azure Policy and Defender posture.
• Eliminate operational toil with self-service tooling.
• Mentor junior engineers, review PRs, and author ADRs/runbooks/docs.

Skills

Azure DevOps YAML pipelines

Bicep modular design

Azure at enterprise scale

PowerShell scripting

Git workflows

Mentoring DevOps engineers

PR review & release strategy

On-call & incident reviews

IoC/ IaC governance

Job description

Teknoforce is hiring a Senior Principal Azure DevOps Engineer to own the design and direction of Infrastructure as Code and Azure CI/CD pipelines in Raleigh, NC. You will serve as the primary technical bridge between DevOps and application development teams, making architecture decisions with significant autonomy.

As a Principal Azure DevOps Engineer, you will drive platform governance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Security on policy posture.