DevOps Architect

Qualifications 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure/architecture with 5+ on Microsoft Azure. Proven experience architecting CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and pipeline orchestration at enterprise scale. Deep hands-on with Terraform (preferred) or Bicep, GitOps (Flux/Argo), Azure networking (VNETs, Private Link, App Gateway/WAF), and AKS. Strong security background: Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, secrets rotation. Observability expertise: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, Prometheus/Grafana. Container platform experience: AKS (node pools, autoscaling, Ingress/Nginx/AGIC, CSI, CNI), container registry (ACR), Helm/Kustomize. Solid understanding of software delivery lifecycle and platform engineering patterns (self-service golden paths, reusable templates, internal developer platforms). Preferred Qualifications 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure de with 3+ on Microsoft Azure. Proven experience architecting CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Azure). Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer, DevOps Engineer Expert). Experience with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), APIM, Event-driven architectures (Event Grid/Service Bus), Managed SQL/MI, Redis, Cosmos DB. Supply chain security (SLSA, signed containers, SBOMs, OPA/Conftest, admission controllers). Experience with Windows and Linux workloads in AKS; hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute, VPN, Private DNS). Familiarity with NIST, SOC2, ISO 27001 and enterprise change management. J-18808-Ljbffr