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# Azure DevOps Architect

- **Company:** Palni Inc
- **Location:** Durham, NC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Policy as Code, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Kubernetes, Bicep, Terraform, Devsecops, Microservices
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/27c77776-9713-435c-a4e8-9c4d9d1cfbdb

## About the Role

* Azure Deployment Stacks - Enterprise-scale infrastructure lifecycle governance across hundreds of Azure subscriptions, including resource management, scoping, and deny assignment enforcement., * 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

## Description

* 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, * 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


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