Azure Devops Engineer

DevOps Engineer supporting and responsible for designing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and standardizing CI/CD pipelines across multiple Windows-based applications and services. The role requires close collaboration with global teams across the US and China, ensuring compliance with enterprise build, packaging, signing, and release standards.Have strong hands-on experience in Azure DevOps, Windows application build systems, code signing processes, release automation, and debugging complex pipeline failures.
Key ResponsibilitiesCI/CD Pipeline Development & Maintenance

• Migrate and onboard existing projects to standardized enterprise CI/CD pipeline templates.
• Build and maintain Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for Windows applications and services.
• Configure automated build, validation, testing, packaging, signing, and release workflows.
• Ensure pipelines follow organizational DevOps standards and best practices.

Pipeline Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis

• Analyze pipeline failures across build, packaging, signing, deployment, and testing stages.
• Review build logs and diagnose issues impacting release delivery.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Work closely with development teams to resolve CI/CD bottlenecks.

Secure Code Signing & Release Compliance

• Configure and maintain HP Secure Sign (HPSS) code signing processes.
• Troubleshoot signing failures and validation issues.
• Manage signing configurations, signing policies, filter patterns, and validation parameters.
• Ensure release artifacts comply with enterprise security requirements.

Windows Build & Packaging Support

• Support x64 and ARM64 application builds.
• Configure MSIX packaging and deployment workflows.
• Maintain bundle generation, release artifact management, and versioning processes.
• Optimize build performance and reliability.

DevOps Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to automate manual engineering and release activities.
• Develop reusable pipeline templates and deployment frameworks.
• Improve monitoring, observability, and reporting for CI/CD processes.
• Enhance pipeline efficiency, scalability, and maintainability.

Global Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate with engineering teams, architects, and program stakeholders across US, China, and India.
• Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and release planning activities.
• Drive alignment with enterprise engineering and release management standards.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Document pipeline configurations, implementation approaches, troubleshooting procedures, and best practices.
• Create knowledge base articles and operational runbooks.
• Support onboarding and mentoring of team members on CI/CD standards and tooling.

Required SkillsTechnical Skills

• Strong experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with YAML-based pipeline development.
• Experience in CI/CD implementation and release automation.
• Knowledge of Windows application build processes.
• Experience with MSIX packaging and deployment.
• Understanding of code signing frameworks and certificate management.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Familiarity with Git, GitHub, Azure Repos.
• Experience working with PowerShell scripting.
• Knowledge of x64 and ARM64 build environments.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with enterprise software release processes.
• Exposure to security and compliance requirements in software delivery.
• Experience supporting multi-repository and multi-team DevOps environments.
• Familiarity with Windows client applications and services.
• Knowledge of build artifact management and release governance.