Senior Azure DevOps Administrator – Remote

SitusAMC; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

SitusAMC seeks a Senior Azure DevOps Administrator to own administration, governance, security, integrations, and CI/CD improvements across Azure DevOps. You will partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams to mature platform standards and guardrails.

The role leads governance forums, provides hands-on admin of repos, pipelines, boards, and service connections, and ensures secure, compliant delivery workflows in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience administering Microsoft Azure DevOps in an enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps organizations, projects, repositories, pipelines, boards, artifacts, service connections, permissions, process templates, extensions, and integrations.
• Deep understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, pull requests, branch policies, repository governance, and code review practices.
• Experience governing Azure Pipelines for CI/CD, including YAML pipelines, build and release workflows, variable groups, environments, approvals, agent pools, and service connections.
• Experience configuring Azure Boards for Agile, Scrum, and Kanban delivery, including backlogs, sprints, area and iteration paths, queries, dashboards, and delivery tracking.
• Strong understanding of DevOps security practices, including least privilege, secrets management, secure service connections, auditability, privileged access, and policy enforcement.
• Experience integrating security tooling into DevOps workflows; Wiz experience is strongly preferred.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across permissions, pipelines, repositories, integrations, boards, identity, and platform configuration.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to guide users, explain technical issues clearly, and advise teams on best practices.
• Experience partnering with engineering, Agile delivery, security, infrastructure, compliance, architecture, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to lead governance forums, facilitate decisions, document standards, and drive action items to completion.
• Strong documentation discipline, including standards, procedures, runbooks, and user-facing guidance.

Responsibilities

• Azure DevOps Administration
• Administer Azure DevOps projects, repos, pipelines, boards, permissions, service connections, extensions, and integrations.
• Standardize configuration, naming conventions, permissions, work items, and cleanup of unused assets.
• Monitor platform usage, health, consumption, and admin activity to improve governance, cost control, risk management, and user experience.
• CI/CD, Git, and Pipeline Governance
• Govern CI/CD pipelines, Git repositories, branch policies, pull requests, build validation, and secure development practices.
• Troubleshoot build/release issues, permissions, agent pools, variable groups, environments, approvals, service principals, and dependencies.
• Maintain reusable pipeline templates, controls, and guardrails in partnership with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and security teams.
• Security, Compliance, and Guardrails
• Partner with security teams to implement DevSecOps practices, security-as-code standards, and Azure DevOps guardrails.
• Maintain Wiz and other security integrations to improve visibility, control, and compliance across code, pipelines, cloud resources, and delivery workflows.
• Support secure pipeline controls, audits, access reviews, privileged roles, service accounts, tokens, extensions, and credentials.
• Agile, Scrum, and Kanban Support
• Configure and support Azure Boards for Agile, Scrum, and Kanban teams.
• Manage teams, areas, iterations, boards, backlogs, work item types, queries, dashboards, delivery plans, tags, and process configuration.
• Partner with Agile leaders, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and delivery stakeholders to improve planning, tracking, backlog hygiene, and cross-team visibility.
• Integrations and Platform Ecosystem
• Maintain Azure DevOps integrations with security, cloud, identity, reporting, ITSM, notification, and development tools.
• Administer and troubleshoot service connections, webhooks, extensions, APIs, automation scripts, and third-party tools.

Skills

Azure DevOps

CI/CD governance

Git workflows

Agile delivery

Security controls

Communication skills

Governance leadership

DevSecOps

Tools

Azure DevOps

Wiz

Job description

SitusAMC seeks a Senior Azure DevOps Administrator to own administration, governance, security, integrations, and CI/CD improvements across Azure DevOps. You will partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams to mature platform standards and guardrails.

The role leads governance forums, provides hands-on admin of repos, pipelines, boards, and service connections, and ensures secure, compliant delivery workflows in a fast-paced enterprise environment.