Senior DevOps Architect with Azure & Terraform
Location: Bellevue WA (On-site)
Experience: 15 years overall experience and minimum 5 years as Architect
Role Overview:
We are seeking a strategic and hands-on senior DevOps Architect with deep expertise in Azure cloud architecture Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CI/CD pipeline engineering. The successful candidate will play a critical role in designing and implementing enterprise-grade DevOps solutions across complex scalable Azure environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement secure scalable and cost-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
- Design and develop reusable Terraform modules and templates for enterprise use
- Build end-to-end DevOps automation pipelines using Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or similar
- Enable cross-subscription cross-VNet deployments and service communications
- Automate deployments using scripting languages like TypeScript PowerShell or Python
- Define and enforce cloud security RBAC identity management and network architecture best practices
- Mentor DevOps engineers and lead technical decision-making across environments
- Implement advanced deployment strategies (blue-green canary GitOps)
- Create and maintain documentation for infrastructure and DevOps processes
Must-Have Skills & Experience:
- 15 years in DevOps Cloud Infrastructure and Automation
- Strong Terraform development experience must be able to write from scratch modularize and version control
- Deep hands-on experience in Azure (App Services VMs AKS ACR VNets Storage Key Vaults Azure Container Apps Fabric ADLS CosmosDB etc.)
- Ability to build robust CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Proficiency in scripting (at least one of: TypeScript PowerShell Python Bash)
- Experience with Private DNS Zones Service Principals Managed Identities and RBAC
- Strong knowledge of cross-subscription and cross-network communications in Azure
- Solid understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (AKS/Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated ability to handle real-time challenges like quota limits multi-region deployments and production stability
Preferred Qualifications:
- Azure certifications: AZ-305 and AZ-400
- Experience with platform engineering and reusable frameworks for infrastructure
- Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to think architecturally under pressure
- Experience building developer-friendly templates or infra modules
- Clear and strong communication and documentation capabilities
Sr Architect to implement secure, scalable, a cost-optimized infrastructure on Azure with Teraform ,
Education
Master's preferred