Azure DevOps Administrator – Application Development & Tooling

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter however complex or high-stakes. The firms work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.

Based in any of our U.S. offices (New York or Washington D.C. preferred) the Azure DevOps Administrator will be responsible for the configuration administration optimization and governance of the firms developer tooling ecosystem including Azure DevOps GitHub Enterprise CI/CD pipelines code repositories and automation capabilities.

The Enterprise Application Solutions team supports and modernizes the firms application ecosystem development tooling and automation platforms. This role ensures that development teams have consistent well-managed and compliant tooling that supports modern engineering practices. The ideal candidate combines strong technical administration skills with secure DevOps practices excellent problem-solving abilities and the ability to collaborate with engineering security and infrastructure teams.

We are seeking an Azure DevOps Administrator to own and enhance our developer tooling environment ensuring that engineering teams have a secure scalable and reliable platform for modern software delivery. This is a technical platform administration role not a developer position focused on stability security automation legacy migration/conversion and enablement.

Key platforms include:

• Azure DevOps: Repos Pipelines Boards Artifacts Test Plans
• GitHub Enterprise: Repos Branch protections Actions Packages
• CI/CD Tooling: YAML pipelines runners/agents release automation
• Cloud & Identity: Azure Entra ID service connections key vaults
• Automation & Scripting: PowerShell REST APIs DevOps CLI GitHub CLI

• Administer and optimize Azure DevOps organizations projects repositories pipelines and agent pools.
• Configure GitHub Enterprise settings branches protections identity integrations and security controls.
• Maintain and govern CI/CD pipelines build templates variable groups and release automation.
• Ensure reliable operation of build agents runners self-hosted agents and integrations.
• Create and maintain project templates repository policies and standardized branching strategies.

• Manage permissions access controls service connections and environment restrictions across all tooling.
• Enforce code security and compliance policies (branch protections secrets management PR controls).
• Partner with Security & Infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with firm standards and regulatory requirements.
• Implement secure DevOps practices including least-privilege access artifact governance and pipeline hardening.

• Train and coach development teams on best practices for source control branching pipelines and automation.
• Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 support for Azure DevOps and GitHub issues including pipelines builds deployments and tooling errors.
• Create documentation runbooks onboarding guides and knowledge articles for consistent tool adoption.
• Support teams migrating/converting from legacy tooling into Azure DevOps or GitHub Enterprise.
• Build and maintain scripts automations and utilities using PowerShell CLI and REST APIs.
• Standardize reusable pipeline templates and YAML libraries for consistent builds and deployments.
• Identify opportunities to streamline developer workflows reduce manual steps and improve productivity.
• Optimize performance of builds pipelines agent pools and repository structures
• Work closely with engineering QA information security infrastructure and application teams to support delivery workflows.
• Partner with the Agile Delivery Leads to align tooling capabilities with delivery goals and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with cloud network and security teams on connectivity authentication and environment configuration.
• Coordinate with vendors and Microsoft support as needed for escalations and troubleshooting.

• Monitor platform health pipeline performance agent utilization and repository status.
• Maintain logs audit trails and operational documentation for compliance and platform management.
• Produce reporting and dashboards on usage performance reliability and governance status.
• Support lifecycle management upgrades licenses and backlog improvements for all tooling.

Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of Azure DevOps services: Repos Pipelines Artifacts Boards Test Plans.
• Experience configuring GitHub Enterprise GitHub Actions runners and repository governance.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (PowerShell Bash YAML REST API).
• Familiarity with Azure cloud services Entra ID/identity management service principals and Key Vault.
• Knowledge of build automation SPFx Power Platform or similar stacks.
• Understanding of secure DevOps principles software supply chain security and secrets management.

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Business or related field.
• 5 years of experience in DevOps administration system administration cloud operations or engineering support.
• Hands-on experience administering Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise in an enterprise environment.
• Experience supporting development teams using CI/CD pipelines Git workflows and automation tools.
• Microsoft certifications (AZ-400 AZ-104 AZ-305 SC-300).
• Experience with GitHub Advanced Security dependency scanning or code scanning tools.
• Experience supporting legal financial or regulated industries.
• Familiarity with ITIL service management practices or change control processes.

Gibson Dunn will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of local law.

Compensation & Benefits:

The annual compensation range for this position is $140-170k. The salary offered within this range will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations.

Benefits offered for this position include health care; retirement benefits; paid days off including sick time and vacation time; parental leave; basic life insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts; as well as discretionary performance-based bonuses.

The application window is expected to close on Monday August 24 2026.

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Gibson Dunn is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants including individuals with disabilities. We strive to ensure an inclusive and accessible hiring experience. The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable participation in the application and recruitment process unless doing so would impose an undue hardship in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

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