Lead DevOps Solution Architect

Iyan Cloud Tamilnadu; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Iyan Cloud Tamilnadu seeks a senior IT leader to helm the Migration Factory, mentoring engineers and driving secure, repeatable cloud migrations. You will own scope, plans, milestones, capacity, dependencies and recovery actions while coordinating with application owners, platform, security and leadership.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in IT with DevOps and migration leadership, 5+ years Azure DevOps, and strong SDLC governance. Global delivery experience and PMP/SAFe certs are highly valued.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT leadership in DevOps, platforms, migrations and PM.
• 5+ years hands-on Azure DevOps experience guiding CI/CD and access decisions.
• Strong end-to-end SDLC knowledge with governance and reporting.
• Proven project/program management, Agile/Scrum and stakeholder coordination.
• Excellent customer management, communication, negotiation and escalation skills.
• Experience transferring or rebuilding apps for customers.
• Experience with partner/offshore delivery and audits.

Responsibilities

• Lead Migration Factory team, mentor engineers, prioritize backlog and ensure secure execution.
• Own scope, integrated plan, sprint/wave plan, milestones and recovery actions.
• Coordinate internal and customer-facing teams across architectures and leadership.
• Act as escalation owner for automation, authentication, permissions and pipelines.
• Define architecture across Discover, Extract, Validate, Package, Reconcile, Transfer and Handover.
• Assess projects and define assets, dependencies and entry/exit criteria.
• Define least-privilege access patterns and review automation for security and reliability.
• Lead pilots and scale based on extraction/completion, acceptance and readiness.
• Manage timelines, surface risks and provide recovery options to leadership.
• Convert recurring issues into reusable automation, runbooks and governance.
• Own closure including evidence, lessons learned and handover.

Skills

Leadership & program management

DevOps leadership

Azure DevOps

Cloud migration

SDLC governance

Stakeholder management

Automation & scripting (PowerShell/Py)

Education

PMP

SAFe/Scrum cert

Azure certifications

Cloud Architecture cert (optional)

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

REST APIs

Checkmarx/SonarQube

Job description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the Migration Factory team, mentor engineers, prioritize the backlog and ensure secure, repeatable execution.
• Own scope, integrated plan, sprint/wave plan, milestones, capacity, dependencies, RAID, status reporting, decision gates and recovery actions.
• Act as the primary internal and customer-facing point of contact, coordinating application owners, platform/cloud/security teams, architects and leadership.
• Serve as the single escalation owner for both organizations and lead L1/L2 triage for automation, authentication/PAT, permissions, REST API, Git, extraction, reconciliation, packaging, handoff, pipeline rewiring and application stand-up issues.
• Define the architecture across Discover, Extract, Validate, Package, Reconcile, Transfer, Customer Rebuild/Rewire, Validate and Handover.
• Assess ADO projects across the SDLC and define the assets, history, relationships and non-secret dependencies required for customer rebuild and rewiring.
• Define migration archetypes, complexity scoring, entry/exit criteria, exception paths, delta strategy, release controls and acceptance criteria.
• Define least-privilege identity/PAT/API/Git access patterns and review automation for security, reliability, restartability, evidence and supportability.
• Lead pilots and approve scaling based on extraction completeness, reconciliation, customer acceptance, exception rates and target readiness.
• Manage timelines and forecasts, surface risks early and provide actionable recovery options to leadership.
• Convert recurring issues into reusable automation, runbooks, manifests, standards or governance improvements.
• Own closure including exception disposition, acceptance, evidence, lessons learned, temporary access removal, staging cleanup and handover.

Required Toolset Proficiency

• Azure DevOps: Organizations/Projects, Azure Repos/Git, Azure Boards, Test Plans, Wikis, YAML and classic pipelines, agent pools, environments, service connections, variable groups, permissions, inherited processes, Analytics/queries and REST APIs.
• Git/source control: branching, merging, tags, pull requests, history, clone/mirror/bundle concepts, repository security and troubleshooting.
• Automation: working proficiency in PowerShell and Python; ability to review API orchestration, JSON/CSV/Markdown processing, retries, logging, reconciliation and checksums.
• Azure/security: Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, service principals/managed identities, Key Vault, Azure Storage, RBAC, certificates, DNS/network references and least-privilege access.
• CI/CD/platform engineering: reusable YAML templates, artifacts, agents, environment configuration, approvals/checks and Terraform concepts.
• DevSecOps awareness: SonarQube, Checkmarx, Orca or comparable controls.
• Delivery/reporting: Azure Boards plus Teams, Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI.

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of IT experience with leadership in DevOps, platform engineering, application delivery, cloud automation, architecture, enterprise migrations and project management.
• 5+ years of hands-on Azure DevOps experience and the ability to guide platform, CI/CD, API, access and troubleshooting decisions.
• Strong end-to-end SDLC knowledge across backlog/source control, build, test, artifacts, release/deployment, environments, approvals, observability, rollback and change controls.
• Demonstrated project/program management, Agile/Scrum, sprint/wave planning, resource planning, RAID management, customer/vendor coordination and executive reporting.
• Strong customer management, communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution and escalation ownership.
• Ability to determine what must be transferred versus recreated so the customer can build, deploy and operate the application.
• Enterprise separation, divestiture, merger, cross-tenant or Azure DevOps organization migration experience.
• PMP, SAFe/Scrum, Azure, Azure DevOps or architecture certifications.
• Experience leading partner/offshore teams and wave-based technology delivery.