Job Title: Azure DevOps Administrator
Location : Remote
Employment: Contract

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Administer Azure DevOps organizations, projects, teams, and project-level configurations in accordance with enterprise standards.
- Configure and maintain inherited process templates, work item types, fields, forms, states, transitions, rules, reason values, and backlog behavior.
- Design and manage work item hierarchies and relationships across portfolios, epics, features, user stories, tasks, defects, risks, issues, decisions, milestones, and other approved work item types.
- Configure and maintain Areas, Iterations, team backlogs, sprint settings, delivery plans, queries, charts, dashboards, and notifications.
- Partner with business and program stakeholders to evaluate configuration requests, identify platform constraints, recommend sustainable options, and implement approved changes.
- Perform impact analysis and regression validation before deploying changes to shared process templates or production projects.
- Plan and execute bulk work item creation, updates, imports, exports, and data corrections using supported Azure DevOps features, Excel integration, CSV, REST APIs, or approved migration utilities.
- Validate data quality after imports or configuration changes, including required fields, state mappings, parent-child relationships, links, assignments, history, and reporting consistency.
- Configure and administer users, teams, Microsoft Entra ID groups, security groups, access levels, and role-based permissions using least-privilege principles.
- Maintain project and permission standards, including controlled administrator groups, naming conventions, access reviews, and separation of duties.
- Support governance, audit, and compliance requirements by maintaining traceable approvals, change records, access evidence, configuration documentation, and operational procedures.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, Analytics Views, queries, and Power BI-ready data structures for program status, milestones, risks, dependencies, backlog health, and delivery reporting.
- Support integrations between Azure DevOps and approved enterprise tools, and troubleshoot authentication, permissions, data synchronization, and reporting issues.
- Develop administrative automation and validation scripts using PowerShell, Azure DevOps REST APIs, or similar approved technologies.
- Provide day-to-day platform support, triage incidents and service requests, perform root-cause analysis,



and coordinate escalations with Microsoft or internal platform teams when needed.
- Create and maintain configuration specifications, runbooks, standard operating procedures, knowledge articles, training materials, and release notes.
- Provide onboarding, office-hours support, and practical guidance to project managers, product owners, analysts, and delivery teams on effective use of Azure Boards.
- Monitor platform usage and configuration consistency and proactively identify opportunities to simplify administration, reduce manual effort, and improve user experience.
- Operate independently, prioritize competing requests, and deliver configuration changes within established change-control and release-management processes.

Skills and Experience:

- 6+ years of IT experience, including enterprise application administration, DevOps or application lifecycle management, platform support, or related disciplines.
- 3+ years of hands-on Azure DevOps administration experience, with strong emphasis on Azure Boards and project administration.
- Demonstrated expertise customizing inherited processes, work item types, fields, forms, states, rules, reason values, backlog levels, Areas, and Iterations.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps permissions, teams, security groups, access levels, Microsoft Entra ID integration, and least-privilege administration.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale project or portfolio management use cases, including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, waterfall, or hybrid delivery methods.
- Experience with work item imports, exports, migration, mapping, reconciliation, and post-load data validation.
- Working knowledge of Azure DevOps REST APIs and scripting using PowerShell, Python, or similar languages for administration and automation.
- Experience developing Azure DevOps queries, dashboards, Analytics Views, and reporting integrations such as Power BI.
- Understanding of Azure DevOps audit logs, change control, access reviews, segregation of duties, data retention, and audit-evidence requirements.
- Ability to analyze complex configuration requests, explain product constraints, and recommend maintainable solutions without unnecessary customization.
- Strong troubleshooting,



technical documentation, organizational, prioritization, and time-management skills.
- Strong partnership, facilitation, and communication skills, including the ability to coordinate with technical and business stakeholders at multiple levels.
- Ability to work independently with limited direction in a rapid-paced environment and provide guidance to less experienced administrators and users.
- B.A. or B.S. in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Experience:

- Experience supporting Azure DevOps environments used primarily for enterprise work management and portfolio reporting.
- Experience with process-template consolidation, inherited-process governance, project onboarding, and controlled configuration releases.
- Experience integrating Azure DevOps data with Power BI, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, ServiceNow, or other approved enterprise platforms.
- Working knowledge of Git repositories, branch policies, pipelines, and release concepts sufficient to support project-level administration and coordinate with engineering platform teams.
- Experience supporting regulated, audited, or controls-driven environments.

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