We are seeking a Lead DevOps Solution Architect to lead a centralized Azure DevOps Migration Factory. The role combines enterprise DevOps architecture, platform leadership, customer partnership, hands-on problem resolution and technical mentoring with full accountability for program delivery and migration outcomes.

Role Overview: The Lead is the single accountable point of contact for the engagement and leads the team from discovery through closure. The role owns architecture, project management, sprint and migration-wave planning, delivery timelines, team priorities, customer coordination, executive reporting, L1/L2 support leadership, escalation management and the quality of automation, extraction, packaging,

reconciliation, handoff and application rebuild/rewire support.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead the Migration Factory team, mentor engineers, prioritize the backlog and ensure secure, repeatable execution.
- Own scope, integrated plan, sprint/wave plan, milestones, capacity, dependencies, RAID, status reporting, decision gates and recovery actions.
- Act as the primary internal and customer-facing point of contact, coordinating application owners, platform/cloud/security teams, architects and leadership.
- Serve as the single escalation owner for both organizations and lead L1/L2 triage for automation, authentication/PAT, permissions, REST API, Git, extraction, reconciliation, packaging, handoff, pipeline rewiring and application stand-up issues.
- Define the architecture across Discover, Extract, Validate, Package, Reconcile, Transfer, Customer Rebuild/Rewire, Validate and Handover.
- Assess ADO projects across the SDLC and define the assets, history, relationships and non-secret dependencies required for customer rebuild and rewiring.




- Define migration archetypes, complexity scoring, entry/exit criteria, exception paths, delta strategy, release controls and acceptance criteria.
- Define least-privilege identity/PAT/API/Git access patterns and review automation for security, reliability, restartability, evidence and supportability.
- Lead pilots and approve scaling based on extraction completeness, reconciliation, customer acceptance, exception rates and target readiness.
- Manage timelines and forecasts, surface risks early and provide actionable recovery options to leadership.
- Convert recurring issues into reusable automation, runbooks, manifests, standards or governance improvements.
- Own closure including exception disposition, acceptance, evidence, lessons learned, temporary access removal, staging cleanup and handover.

Required Toolset Proficiency:

- Azure DevOps: Organizations/Projects, Azure Repos/Git, Azure Boards, Test Plans, Wikis, YAML and classic pipelines, agent pools, environments, service connections, variable groups, permissions, inherited processes, Analytics/queries and REST APIs.
- Git/source control: branching, merging, tags, pull requests, history, clone/mirror/bundle concepts, repository security and troubleshooting.
- Automation: working proficiency in PowerShell and Python; ability to review API orchestration, JSON/CSV/Markdown processing, retries, logging,



reconciliation and checksums.
- Azure/security: Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, service principals/managed identities, Key Vault, Azure Storage, RBAC, certificates, DNS/network references and least-privilege access.
- CI/CD/platform engineering: reusable YAML templates, artifacts, agents, environment configuration, approvals/checks and Terraform concepts.
- DevSecOps awareness: SonarQube, Checkmarx, Orca or comparable controls.
- Delivery/reporting: Azure Boards plus Teams, Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI.

Skills and Experience:

- 8+ years of IT experience with leadership in DevOps, platform engineering, application delivery, cloud automation, architecture, enterprise migrations and project management.
- 5+ years of hands-on Azure DevOps experience and the ability to guide platform, CI/CD, API, access and troubleshooting decisions.
- Strong end-to-end SDLC knowledge across backlog/source control, build, test, artifacts, release/deployment, environments, approvals, observability, rollback and change controls.
- Demonstrated project/program management, Agile/Scrum, sprint/wave planning, resource planning, RAID management, customer/vendor coordination and executive reporting.
- Robust customer management, communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution and escalation ownership.
- Ability to determine what must be transferred versus recreated so the customer can build, deploy and operate the application.
- Enterprise separation, divestiture, merger, cross-tenant or Azure DevOps organization migration experience.
- PMP, SAFe/Scrum, Azure, Azure DevOps or architecture certifications.
- Experience leading partner/offshore teams and wave-based technology delivery.

📌 Lead DevOps Solution Architect (India)
🏢 Maitsys
📍 India