Lead Platform Devops Engineer

Contract to hire Lead Platform Devops Azure Engineer

hybrid role... must be willing to travel to Jasper Indiana and currently live within 2-3 hours.

No Corp to Corp, H1 B Visa- must have proper work authorization able to convert in 6 months to permanent employee- no outside vendors - do not reach out.

This role is a hands-on technical leadership position responsible for shaping, building, and operating the Azure-based platform that powers our modernization initiative and future digital capabilities across the organization.

You will operate at the intersection of Architecture, Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, and Application Development
, translating architectural intent into practical, scalable engineering solutions while enabling development teams to deliver faster, more consistently, and with higher quality.

This is not a people management role. Instead, it is a high-impact technical leadership position focused on building platform capability, establishing standards, and improving engineering effectiveness at scale.

Over time, this role will help evolve our current Dev Ops model into a mature Platform Engineering organization focused on self-service enablement, developer experience, and operational excellence.

• Own the evolution and operation of the Azure platform supporting Infinity and enterprise applications
• Lead implementation of event-driven and cloud-native services including:
• Establish secure, scalable patterns for:
• Networking, private connectivity, and hybrid integration
• Continuously improve platform:
• Reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency
• Deliver reusable platform services and standardized patterns across teams

• Act as the primary implementation authority for platform architecture and engineering standards
• Reference implementations
• Practical engineering guidance
• Serve as the first point of escalation for platform and implementation challenges
• Reduce delivery friction by aligning architecture with real-world execution
• Partner with Architecture, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery

• Build a platform that accelerates development teams—not controls them
• Develop and maintain:
• Monitoring and diagnostics capabilities
• Tooling, environments, templates, and platform patterns
• Improve:
• Onboarding time
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities through enablement and coaching

• Lead design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops and related tooling
• Define and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform:
• Automate:
• Build, test, deploy, rollback, and operational workflows
• Speed
• Reliability
• Repeatability

• Establish platform-wide observability using:
• Define and track platform KPIs:
• Availability
• Deployment success rate
• Recovery time
• Engineering throughput
• Lead:
• Root-cause analysis
• Long-term remediation
• Continuously improve operational maturity and system resilience
• Evaluate and enable:
• AI-assisted development (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, MCP workflows)
• Automation and developer productivity tooling
• Identify opportunities to reduce engineering friction across the SDLC
• Support the evolution toward:
• Internal Developer Platforms
• Partner with Architecture and Security to ensure governed adoption of emerging technologies

• 7+ years in Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, or similar technical leadership roles
• Event-driven and distributed systems
• Secure and hybrid cloud architectures
• Deep experience with:
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong .NET background in enterprise application environments
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production operations
• Proven ability to:
• Lead technical initiatives
• Strong communication and cross-team leadership skills

• Experience supporting multiple development teams through platform capabilities
• Experience building or evolving an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
• Experience with Git Hub, Git Hub Actions, and developer productivity tooling
• Exposure to AI-assisted software engineering capabilities
• Experience in modernization and cloud transformation programs
• Azure certifications (Administrator, Dev Ops Engineer, Solutions Architect)

• Development teams deliver faster with fewer production issues
• Platform patterns are consistently adopted across teams
• CI/CD and infrastructure are largely self-service
• Platform-related incidents decrease and recovery improves
• Engineering teams report improved developer experience and reduced friction
• The platform scales with the organization without requiring proportional headcount