Azure DevOps (ADO) Practitioner

Role Overview

We are seeking an experiencedAzure DevOps (ADO) Practitioner / Technical Leadto support the transition to a centralized ADO environment. This is afunctional and advisory role not a development position.

The ideal candidate will act as an ADO subject matter expert guiding teams on best practices ensuring proper configuration and enabling standardized reporting and portfolio visibility across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as asubject matter expert for Azure DevOps including setup structure and governance
• Collaborate with project and portfolio leads to translate business and reporting needs into ADO configurations
• Define and guide best practices forwork item hierarchy processes fields queries and dashboards
• Design and validateADO dashboards and native reporting capabilities(without relying on external BI tools)
• Provide guidance on aligning ADO structures withservice-based models and portfolio frameworks
• Support onboarding of teams into ADO ensuring adherence to defined standards and processes
• Act as a point of contact for resolving ADO-related queries and providing clear practical guidance
• Bridge the gap between business requirements and ADO platform capabilities
• Ensure ADO is configured to support future scalability and portfolio management initiatives

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience withAzure DevOps (ADO)in enterprise environments
• Deep understanding ofADO configuration workflows dashboards and reporting capabilities
• Experience designing and managingwork item structures queries and visualization dashboards
• Familiarity withservice-based architecture conceptsand mapping engineering work to services
• Understanding ofAzure governance models and standard practices
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to function as anadvisor/consultant guiding teams rather than executing development tasks

Preferred Skills

• Experience supportinglarge-scale ADO implementations or migrations
• Background inprogram management TPM or ADO administration
• Exposure toenterprise portfolio management frameworks
• Interest or experience inAI-enabled tools or Copilot-based solutions