Azure DevOps Engineer CI/CD

10+ years of overall IT / software engineering experience, with significant experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or platform engineering. 5+ years of deep hands-on Azure DevOps experience. Proven experience serving as a Senior DevOps Architect, Azure DevOps Architect, Platform Architect, or Lead DevOps Engineer. Demonstrated experience leading an organization through a transition from manual software delivery processes to automated CI/CD. Advanced experience with: Azure DevOps Azure Pipelines YAML pipelines Azure Boards Azure Repos / Git CI/CD architecture Build and release automation Branching and source-control strategies Strong experience designing enterprise-level reusable pipeline frameworks and templates. Experience integrating automated testing, code-quality scanning, security scanning, and approval workflows into CI/CD pipelines. Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and deployment governance. Experience with Azure cloud environments and deploying applications or infrastructure into Microsoft Azure. Experience with scripting and automation using technologies such as PowerShell, Bash, Azure CLI, or Python. Strong understanding of infrastructure, application deployment, networking, identity, security, and environment management concepts. Experience working across multiple development teams and establishing organization-wide technical standards. Ability to communicate architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong documentation, leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Experience implementing automated testing within CI/CD workflows. Familiarity with SonarQube, Snyk, Checkmarx, Veracode, or similar code-quality/security tools. Experience with Azure Key Vault and secrets-management strategies. Experience implementing GitOps or modern platform-engineering practices. Microsoft Azure or Azure DevOps certifications. Previous experience leading a DevOps transformation within a large enterprise, consulting, government, or public-sector environment.