Azure DevOps Engineer

Position: Azure DevOps Consultant

Location: PAN India

Experience: 7+ Years

As a Principal DevOps Engineer you will serve as the technical authority and strategic advisor for the Rally to Azure DevOps migration initiative. You will oversee the end-to-end architectural design, data integrity, Scalability and compliance of the migration process while mentoring teams aligning enterprise standards and ensuring minimal business disruption.

Your passion for learning, implementing and the ability to ask the right questions, apply analytical skills, problem solving skills, technical skills and reliably complete deliverables with high quality is of utmost importance. This job is a fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position where you get better at your trait.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the technical architecture and migration road map from Rally to ADO

• Drive strategic decisions on tooling, data fidelity, field mapping and process harmonization.

• Engage with Senior stakeholders (Product, Security, infrastructure and compliance) to align goals and timelines.

• Conduct risk management and lead resolution plans for infra, data or access related blockers.

• Guide lead engineer and DevOps teams on technical implementation and field transformation logic and workflow mapping.

• Own the cutover strategy including roll back plans, data validation frameworks and post migration Hyper Care.

• Influence ADO best practices adoption across teams including boards, Queries, Dashboards and Analytics.

• Present status, Key risks and technical insights to the program steering committee.

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications

• Deep Expertise in both Rally and Azure DevOps, especially their data models and customization capabilities.

• Proven experience leading large scale Agile tool migration.

• Strong Proficiency with REST APIs, data pipelines and transformation logic.

• Broad technical depth across agile project managements tools, DevOps workflows, and enterprise integrations.

• Experience with security/access models including Azure AD integration, permissions and compliance polices.

• Excellent leadership, mentoring, and communication skills, ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

• Experience with enterprise-scale rollout of ADO, including CI\CD, Boards, and portfolio management.

• Knowledge of reporting migration from Rally dashboards to ADO+Power BI.

• Exposure to regulatory environment (e.g SOX, GDPR) during tooling migrations.

• Collaborate with development teams to implement scalable and resilient architectures for on-premises and cloud applications.

• Work with stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards. Knowledgeable on SDLC, unit testing frameworks

• Experience with software development tools and standards e.g. coding conventions, best practices, design patterns as well as development methodologies e.g. waterfall, iterative, agile

• Excellent logical/analytical, problem-solving skills and a good Team player. Should be able to work in a team as well as an individual contributor.

• Should be willing to work in shifts when required.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication as well as interpersonal skills.

• Attention to detail and proactive attitude.

• Capable of performing under pressure and within set timelines.