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Role: Azure DevOps Architect Location: Durham, NC (Remote) Duration: 12 Months contract Visas: Independent Candidates 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 Required 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 Note Key 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 All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.