Azure Data Engineer

Role: Azure Data Engineer Location: Weehawken, NJ Duration: 12 Months Job Summary: Mandatory Skills: - Azure Deployment Stacks — Enterprise-scale infrastructure lifecycle governance across hundreds of Azure subscriptions, including resource management, scoping, and deny assignment enforcement. - Open Policy Agent (OPA) / Policy-as-Code — Design and enforcement of security and compliance policies embedded natively across CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale (500+ engineering teams). - Sigstore — Production-level implementation of artifact signing, verification, and software supply chain integrity pipelines across distributed engineering environments - Azure Chaos Studio — Resilience engineering through controlled fault injection and distributed system failure experimentation across microservices and cloud-native workloads - Azure Confidential Computing — Architecture and deployment of secure enclave workloads for high-security, regulated enterprise environments - SBOM Automation Pipelines — End-to-end automated Software Bill of Materials generation, dependency visibility, and vulnerability tracking integrated into CI/CD workflows - FluxCD GitOps Platform Engineering — Enterprise-grade GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery and cluster management for large-scale AKS environments. Required Experience: - 10+ years of experience in DevOps architecture and cloud platform engineering - Demonstrated enterprise-scale delivery across Fortune-level organizations in finance, healthcare, retail, or technology - Proven hands-on experience with all seven mandatory niche skills listed above — generalist profiles will not be considered - Experience supporting 500+ engineering teams or equivalent large-scale platform environments - Background in regulated industries with strong understanding of compliance, audit, and security requirements - Azure DevOps — Enterprise CI/CD platform design and management - Kubernetes (AKS) — Large-scale cluster platform engineering - Infrastructure as Code — Terraform and/or Bicep at enterprise scale - DevSecOps Architecture — Security-first pipeline design and governance - Secure Artifact Signing Pipelines — Integration with modern supply chain security frameworks