Azure DevOps Architect

Title: Azure DevOps Architect

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ / Alpharetta, GA(5days onsite)

Work type: W2 only

1. Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Landing Zones

Unified Governance: Architect and deploy automated Cloud Landing Zones with integrated security guardrails, VPC/VNet topologies, and IAM synchronization across multiple regions.

On-Premise Integration: Design \"Cloud-Adjacent\" architectures that allow on-premises workloads to burst into the cloud or maintain low-latency connections to local storage/databases.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop modular, version controlled Terraform

or OpenTofu providers to manage resources across AWS, Azure, and private data centers.

2. Engineering & Automation

Python for Tooling: Build custom automation frameworks and \"Glue Code\" in Python to bridge gaps between vendor APIs and internal developer portals.

GitOps & CI/CD: Implement GitOps workflows (using ArgoCD or Flux) to ensure the \"Source of Truth\" in Git is automatically reflected in the live environment.

State Management: Design robust backend state management for multi-cloud IaC to prevent configuration drift and ensure environment parity.

3. SRE & Operational Excellence

Toil Elimination: Identify repetitive manual tasks in the migration lifecycle and replace them with automated self-service workflows.

Observability Architecture: Design a unified monitoring plane (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) that provides \"Single Pane of Glass\" visibility across hybrid environments.

Error Budgeting: Partner with engineering teams to define SLIs/SLOs and implement automated \"Circuit Breakers\" for failing deployments.

Act as a Subject Matter Expert in Azure for the Hosted Operations Team

Gather feedback from the department on areas of improvement and provide solutions utilizing Azure

Serve as a point of escalation for complex Azure cases

Participate in inter-departmental planning meetings on suggested solutions for existing issues as well as systemic and process improvements

Work with internal team on identifying pain points in Azure deployments and configuration and ways to alleviate them

Maintain and enhance current client environment configurations

Organize and execute training sessions for new workflows and procedure recommendations

Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers

Participate in an on-call rotation

Building and running applications in AKS

Required Skills & Qualifications

1. Experience

12+ years in Infrastructure/DevOps; 5+ years in a Lead Architect capacity.

2. IaC Mastery

Expert-level Terraform (module development, state management, Terragrunt).

3. Scripting

Proficiency in Python for complex automation and Bash for systems-level tasks.

4. Cloud Platforms

Deep hands-on experience with at least two: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

5. On-Prem/Hybrid

Experience with VMWare, Nutanix, or Bare-Metal automation (Ansible/Packer).

6. Containerization

Advanced Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/OpenShift) including Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd).

7. VCS

Mastery of Git (Branching strategies, Hooks, and CI/CD integration).

The \"Hybrid Hero\" Profile

1. The \"Zero-Trust\" Mindset: You assume the network is hostile and build security (mTLS, Vault) into the automation from the start.

2. Vendor Agnostic: You prefer open standards and cloud-native patterns over proprietary vendor lock-in features.

Resilience Obsessed: You don't just build systems; you build systems that recover themselves (Self-healing infrastructure).