Lead Platform Devops Engineer

Contract to hire Lead Platform Devops Azure Engineer hybrid role...must be willing to travel to Jasper Indiana and currently live within 2-3 hours. No Corp to Corp, H1 B Visa- mut have proper work authorization able to convert in 6 months to permanent employee- no outside vendors - do not reach out This role is a hands-on technical leadership position responsible for shaping, building, and operating the Azure-based platform that powers our modernization initiative and future digital capabilities across the organization. You will operate at the intersection of Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Application Development , translating architectural intent into practical, scalable engineering solutions while enabling development teams to deliver faster, more consistently, and with higher quality. This is not a people management role. Instead, it is a high-impact technical leadership position focused on building platform capability, establishing standards, and improving engineering effectiveness at scale. Over time, this role will help evolve our current DevOps model into a mature Platform Engineering organization focused on self-service enablement, developer experience, and operational excellence. What This Role Owns Platform Engineering & Cloud Operations Own the evolution and operation of the Azure platform supporting Infinity and enterprise applications Lead implementation of event-driven and cloud-native services including: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Service Bus API Management, Cosmos DB, Storage, Key Vault Establish secure, scalable patterns for: Networking, private connectivity, and hybrid integration Continuously improve platform: Reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency Deliver reusable platform services and standardized patterns across teams Platform Strategy & Architecture Enablement Act as the primary implementation authority for platform architecture and engineering standards Translate architectural direction into: Repeatable patterns Reference implementations Practical engineering guidance Serve as the first point of escalation for platform and implementation challenges Reduce delivery friction by aligning architecture with real-world execution Partner with Architecture, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery Developer Experience & Platform Enablement Build a platform that accelerates development teams—not controls them Develop and maintain: Self-service deployment pipelines Infrastructure provisioning Monitoring and diagnostics capabilities Standardize: Tooling, environments, templates, and platform patterns Improve: Onboarding time Engineering productivity Cross-team consistency Drive adoption of platform capabilities through enablement and coaching CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code Lead design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and related tooling Define and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform: Modular, reusable, environment-aligned designs Automate: Build, test, deploy, rollback, and operational workflows Improve deployment: Speed Reliability Repeatability Reliability, Observability & Operations Establish platform-wide observability using: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Grafana Define and track platform KPIs: Availability Deployment success rate Recovery time Engineering throughput Lead: Incident response Root-cause analysis Long-term remediation Continuously improve operational maturity and system resilience Modern Engineering & AI Enablement Evaluate and enable: AI-assisted development (e.g., GitHub Copilot, MCP workflows) Automation and developer productivity tooling Identify opportunities to reduce engineering friction across the SDLC Support the evolution toward: Internal Developer Platforms Self-service engineering ecosystems Partner with Architecture and Security to ensure governed adoption of emerging technologies Required Qualifications 7+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or similar technical leadership roles Strong hands-on Azure experience, including: Functions, Container Apps, Service Bus, APIM, Cosmos DB, Key Vault Experience designing: Event-driven and distributed systems Secure and hybrid cloud architectures Deep experience with: CI/CD (Azure DevOps) Terraform and Infrastructure as Code Strong .NET background in enterprise application environments Experience with observability, monitoring, and production operations Proven ability to: Lead technical initiatives Mentor engineers Translate architecture into execution Strong communication and cross-team leadership skills Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting multiple development teams through platform capabilities Experience building or evolving an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and developer productivity tooling Exposure to AI-assisted software engineering capabilities Experience in modernization and cloud transformation programs Azure certifications (Administrator, DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect) Success in This Role Development teams deliver faster with fewer production issues Platform patterns are consistently adopted across teams CI/CD and infrastructure are largely self-service Platform-related incidents decrease and recovery improves Engineering teams report improved developer experience and reduced friction The platform scales with the organization without requiring proportional headcount mut pass background and drug screen