Engineering Systems Engineer - Azure DevOps Administration & Governance

The Engineering Systems Engineer, Azure Dev Ops is the hands-on technical owner of Azure Dev Ops across the Engineering organization — the project and organization structure, boards, work item process, and access model that every engineer depends on every day, including the integration points that connect Azure Dev Ops to our Git Hub-hosted repos (our source code lives in Git Hub, not Azure Repos).

Pipeline authoring and CI/CD ownership sit with the engineering teams that build them; this role owns everything else about how Azure Dev Ops is organized, governed, and accessed. This individual contributor owns Azure Dev Ops administration, governance, and continuous improvement end-to-end, and is the organization's go-to expert when Azure Dev Ops issues need to be diagnosed and resolved with authority.

This engineer is a proactive platform operator who identifies configuration drift and fragmented workflows before they become embedded patterns, closes governance gaps before they accumulate into technical debt, and automates manual administration work before it creates toil. When a team asks for a workaround, this person diagnoses the actual problem behind the request rather than bolting on a quick fix that adds to the fragmentation.

Beyond Azure Dev Ops, this role also supports the broader Engineering Systems platform portfolio — including Launch Darkly feature flag operations, Flyway database migration standards, AI-assisted development tools like Cursor and Claude Code, and other tools the team takes on as needed — working alongside teammates who own those platforms and building the working knowledge needed to contribute to cross-platform initiatives.

Azure Dev Ops ownership is the primary responsibility in this role; the rest of the portfolio is secondary and grows with tenure, and the specific list of “other tools” is expected to change over time.

This engineer leverages AI throughout their own workflow — using it to accelerate Azure Dev Ops platform analysis, generate automation scripts, produce enablement documentation, and surface insights from platform data that would take hours to find manually.

Starting base pay for this role is between $100,000 and $122,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skills, work experience, business needs, training, location, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role will be eligible for a bonus as well as competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, wellness reimbursement, life insurance, and a 401(k) with company match.

We offer vacation and sick leave benefits (under a flexible time off policy in most states).

• Azure Dev Ops Administration & Governance (45%) Owns day-to-day administration of Azure Dev Ops across the Engineering organization — managingorganizations, projects, teams, boards, area paths, iteration cadences, and access controls with the consistency, precision, and configuration hygiene that a multi-team Engineering organization depends on.
  
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