Azure Devops Lead

Job Title: Devops Lead

Location: Alameda, CA (Hybrid 1-2 Days / Week Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months contract

Job Description:

We are looking for a seasoned Lead Azure DevOps Engineer to drive our cloud infrastructure, CI CD practices, and data pipeline architecture.

You will be the technical anchor for the DevOps function — mentoring engineers, designing scalable ETL pipelines on Azure, and partnering closely with data engineering, platform, and product teams to accelerate delivery.

This is a high-ownership role that blends hands-on engineering with team leadership.

Core Technical Requirements:

7–8 years in DevOps Cloud engineering roles

Deep expertise in Azure DevOps: Boards, Pipelines, Repos, and Artifacts.

Hands-on experience with Azure services: ADF, Azure Functions, AKS, ETL using Azure DevOps.

Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and or Bicep ARM templates.

Expertise in CI CD pipeline design, branching strategies, and release management ETL & Data Engineering.

Hands-on experience designing and maintaining ETL ELT pipelines at scale.

Experience with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, or equivalent orchestration tools.

Experience with data Lakehouse patterns: ADLS Gen2, Azure Synapse.

Pipeline monitoring, alerting, and SLA management for data workloads.

Familiarity with SQL, Python, or PySpark for pipeline scripting and transformation.