Azure DevOps Lead

Summary

Our fast, client-focused, dynamic environment wants your consulting management skills and desire to make a difference. Use Avanade’s tech, innovation and leadership to make a genuine human impact. Enjoy seeing an impact on clients, too, as you solve interesting challenges in a way that’s flexible to your approach to work—and life. Chart your own career path with us. 

The Mid Azure DevOps Consultant supports the implementation and operation of DevOps and cloud automation solutions on Microsoft Azure. This role focuses on hands-on delivery—Terraform-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and documentation—working under the guidance of senior consultants and architects. Together we do what matters. 

Key responsibilities 

DevOps Strategy & Leadership 

• Lead DevOps and cloud automation initiatives across enterprise Azure environments. 

• Conduct DevOps maturity assessments and define improvement roadmaps (process, tooling, people). 

• Act as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, engineering leads, and architects. 

• Mentor mid-level engineers and promote DevOps best practices. 
   

CI/CD & Automation 

• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (YAML-based). 

• Define branching strategies, release management, approval gates, and rollback mechanisms. 

• Integrate IaC, application build, security scanning, and validation into pipelines. 
   

Infrastructure as Code & Platform Engineering 

• Design and maintain reusable Terraform modules for Azure (networking, compute, storage, security, governance). 

• Enforce environment consistency using Terraform state management and standards. 

• Contribute to Azure platform engineering design (subscriptions, landing zones, shared services). 
   

Security, Governance & DevSecOps 

• Implement and standardize RBAC, Azure Policy, Key Vault, and identity controls. 

• Embed security and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines. 

• Support regulated-industry security and audit requirements. 
   

Observability & Resilience 

• Enable Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, dashboards, and action groups. 

• Define operational readiness including backup, DR, and RPO/RTO validation. 
   

Documentation & Collaboration 

• Produce architecture diagrams, CI/CD runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation. 

• Work closely with application, security, network, and operations teams. 

Skills & Experiences 

• 7+ years experience in DevOps / Cloud / Platform Engineering roles. 

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services (compute, networking, identity, security, storage, monitoring). 

• Expert-level Azure DevOps (repos, pipelines, artifacts, boards). 

• Strong Terraform experience (modules, state, CI/CD integration). 

• Scripting using PowerShell and/or Bash. 

• Experience in Consulting & Delivery  

• Client-facing experience in solution design and delivery. 

• Ability to lead discussions, workshops, and technical decision-making. 

• Strong documentation and communication skills. 

• Certifications in Microsoft ; At least one Azure certification (or commitment to obtain) 

• AZ-400: Microsoft Certified – DevOps Engineer Expert (or commitment to obtain). 

• Preferred / Optional 

-AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate 

-AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert 

-HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate