DEVOPS TECHNICAL LEAD - Azure DevOps

We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on DevOps CI/CD Engineer to own the implementation, administration, optimization, and governance of our enterprise GitHub and CI/CD ecosystem. This is a technical ownership and engineering role ? not a traditional support position. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining scalable CI/CD workflows, establishing enterprise GitHub standards, troubleshooting complex pipeline issues, and driving adoption of modern DevOps and DevSecOps practices across engineering teams.

You will work closely with development, QA, operations, security, architecture, and cloud engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and highly automated software delivery processes. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Git, Docker, Azure, AWS and AKS, combined with strong troubleshooting, automation, and stakeholder-management capabilities.

Team & Key Projects

• Team
• Purpose of this team/Key Projects
• Reason for the Posting
• Motivators for this need
  
  

OwnerSHIP: You treat GitHub Enterprise and CI/CD as a platform that you own and continuously improve ? not simply a tool that you operate.

Problem Solver: You can independently investigate complex pipeline failures, identify root causes, and implement permanent solutions.

Automation Mindset: You look for opportunities to eliminate repetitive manual work through scripting, workflow automation, and reusable pipeline components.

Quality Focused: You understand that successful CI/CD is not simply about getting a pipeline to pass. Reliability, security, testing, compliance, and measurable delivery outcomes matter.

Self-Directed: You can work independently, prioritize competing technical issues, and deliver outcomes without continuous supervision.

Collaborative: You work effectively with developers, QA engineers, architects, security teams, cloud engineers, and operations teams.

Continuous Improvement: You proactively identify opportunities to improve pipeline performance, developer experience, platform reliability, security, and engineering KPIs.

Technical Communicator: You can explain complex CI/CD and GitHub concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and create documentation that teams can actually use.

Typical Day in the Role

• Day-to-day roles and responsibilities
• Interaction level with team
• Work environment description
• GitHub Enterprise Platform Administration
• Own the administration, configuration, and optimization of the enterprise GitHub environment.
• Configure and manage GitHub organizations, repositories, teams, permissions, policies, and enterprise-level settings.
• Establish and enforce repository governance standards including branch protection, pull request policies, CODEOWNERS, required status checks, and review requirements.
• Manage GitHub Enterprise integrations with CI/CD, security, cloud, testing, and deployment platforms.
• Configure and maintain GitHub Actions runners, including GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runner environments.
• Troubleshoot GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions issues across repositories, workflows, permissions, runners, integrations, and authentication.
• Support enterprise adoption and standardization of GitHub across development teams.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development & Engineering
• Design, develop, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Build reusable and maintainable workflow and pipeline templates that can be adopted across multiple engineering teams.
• Automate end-to-end build, test, security scanning, artifact creation, and deployment processes.
• Implement multi-stage CI/CD workflows covering development, testing, quality validation, approvals, and production deployment.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with source control, testing frameworks, artifact repositories, security scanners, cloud platforms, and deployment tools.
• Implement pipeline automation that supports reliable and repeatable software delivery across environments.
• Develop appropriate branching, pull request, merge, and release strategies aligned with enterprise DevOps standards.
• Pipeline Troubleshooting & Performance Optimization
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex CI/CD pipeline failures and deployment issues.
• Diagnose and resolve failures involving YAML configuration, authentication, permissions, runners/agents, dependencies, build tools, deployments, and integrations.
• Analyze pipeline execution time and identify opportunities to improve build and deployment performance.
• Optimize caching, parallel execution, dependencies, artifact handling, and runner utilization.
• Investigate intermittent and environment-specific pipeline failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Establish troubleshooting standards, reusable diagnostics, and operational runbooks for common CI/CD issues.
• Azure & AWS Cloud, Docker & Kubernetes Engineering
• Design and maintain CI/CD processes supporting cloud-native applications deployed on Microsoft Azure and AWS.
• Build and maintain Docker-based application build and deployment workflows.
• Integrate container image build, scanning, tagging, and publishing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support deployments to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using appropriate deployment methodologies.
• Work with Kubernetes deployment mechanisms including Helm, kubectl, manifests, and related automation.
• Integrate pipelines with Azure and AWS services and cloud-native deployment architectures.
• Troubleshoot container build, registry, Kubernetes deployment, and application rollout issues.
• Collaborate with Azure and AWS architects and engineering teams to improve cloud deployment reliability, scalability, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and integrating AWS deployments into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with AWS services such as EKS, ECR, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and related deployment and monitoring services.
• Build and maintain containerized application deployment workflows using AWS EKS and ECR.
• Implement secure authentication and access management for AWS-based CI/CD integrations using IAM roles and federated identity where applicable.
• DevSecOps & Security Integration
• Implement security best practices throughout the CI/CD lifecycle.
• Integrate security scanning and quality controls into CI/CD workflows.
• Support implementation of SAST, dependency scanning, container vulnerability scanning, and other DevSecOps controls.
• Implement secure management of credentials, secrets, service connections, and pipeline variables.
• Apply least-privilege principles to GitHub, Azure DevOps, Azure, and CI/CD integrations.
• Support regular security assessments, vulnerability remediation, and CI/CD platform audits.
• Ensure CI/CD processes comply with organizational security, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• DevSecOps Metrics & KPI Improvement
• Support initiatives focused on improving engineering and software delivery KPIs.
• Establish and improve visibility into DevSecOps metrics including Change Failure Rate, Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), Regression Testing Effectiveness, Escaped / Escape Defects, Pipeline Success Rate, Build and Deployment Duration, and Security Vulnerability Trends.
• Analyze CI/CD performance and identify opportunities for measurable improvement.
• Partner with engineering and QA teams to reduce failed deployments, regression defects, and production escapes.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to improve software delivery quality and reliability.
• Testing & Quality Engineering
• Implement end-to-end testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate unit, integration, regression, API, security, and deployment validation testing as appropriate.
• Configure automated quality gates to prevent defective or non-compliant code from progressing through the delivery lifecycle.
• Integrate pipeline execution with test reporting and quality management frameworks.
• Troubleshoot test execution failures and identify whether failures originate from code, infrastructure, dependencies, configuration, or pipeline implementation.
• Continuously improve automated testing coverage and reliability within CI/CD workflows.
• Automation & Scripting
• Develop automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar scripting technologies.
• Automate repetitive administrative, deployment, validation, monitoring, and troubleshooting activities.
• Build reusable scripts and utilities that improve developer productivity and platform efficiency.
• Integrate scripting and automation into GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps workflows.
• Maintain clean, documented, secure, and supportable automation code.
• Collaboration, Technical Guidance & Leadership
• Work closely with development, QA, operations, security, architecture, and cloud engineering teams.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring on GitHub, Git, CI/CD, DevOps, and DevSecOps practices.
• Act as a subject matter expert for GitHub Enterprise and CI/CD engineering.
• Drive adoption of standardized CI/CD practices across engineering teams.
• Lead technical discussions around branching strategies, pipeline architecture, automation, security, and deployment practices.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize engineering processes.
• Promote knowledge sharing and establish reusable patterns and best practices.
• Documentation & Operational Excellence
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation for GitHub Enterprise and CI/CD processes.
• Develop architecture documentation, pipeline standards, troubleshooting guides, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Document GitHub governance, branching strategies, security controls, and CI/CD best practices.
• Maintain accurate documentation of integrations, configurations, dependencies, and operational processes.
• Ensure lessons learned from incidents and recurring pipeline failures are incorporated into platform improvements.
  
  

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition

• What makes this role interesting
• Unique selling points
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Candidate Requirements

• Years of experience required
• Degrees or certifications required
• Disqualifiers
• Systems/Technology experience requirements
• Required background experience
  
  

8+ Years (DevOps / CI/CD / Platform Engineering Focus)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of overall technical IT experience, with significant hands-on experience in DevOps, CI/CD, or Platform Engineering.
• Proven experience managing and supporting GitHub Enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Deep understanding of Git, branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, and repository governance.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices within CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Experience writing automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across global engineering teams.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  
  

Azure DevOps

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