Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: Eastern Time Zone or able to work Eastern hours
 Engagement: Contract; initial term through December, with potential for future extensions subject to budget approval

About the role

We're seeking a hands-on Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to help lead a cloud platform transformation. You'll assess an existing Azure environment and build a more consistent, secure, and scalable platform using Infrastructure as Code.

This is a transformation and platform-engineering role, not primarily a steady-state operations position or a rebuild of every application deployment. You'll work with the Cloud Architecture and DevOps team, collaborate with stakeholders and partner teams, and help establish foundations that support incremental workload migration.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current Azure platform, gather requirements, and understand dependencies across applications and shared services.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cloud waste and retire unused or unnecessary resources.
• Develop a pragmatic target architecture and subscription strategy, including high-level estimates for effort and timelines.
• Build reusable Terraform modules for platform foundations, including landing zones, networking, and identity.
• Deploy and validate initial foundational components.
• Help establish a governed, code-managed approach for provisioning subscriptions and shared services.
• Support the subsequent migration of workloads to the new platform.
• Contribute to team engineering practices, including stand-ups, sprint planning, and day-to-day collaboration.

Qualifications

• 12 years of experience engineering and improving Azure cloud platforms.
• Hands-on Terraform experience, including building reusable modules.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD workflows.
• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, identity, and platform architecture.
• Ability to work independently, make practical recommendations, and drive technical work forward.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-engagement skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Terraform automation and collaboration tools (TACOS), such as Atlantis, Digger, or similar.
• Strong Azure networking knowledge.
• Experience with cloud platform governance, landing zones, and workload migrations.