Engineering Systems Engineer - Azure DevOps Administration & Governance

Origami Risk delivers single-platform SaaS solutions for risk, insurance, compliance, and safety management. The Engineering Systems Engineer owns Azure DevOps administration, governance, access management, integrations, automation, and platform health across the Engineering organization, while also supporting related engineering systems and standards documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Owns day-to-day administration of Azure DevOps across the Engineering organization — managing organizations, projects, teams, boards, area paths, iteration cadences, and access controls with the consistency, precision, and configuration hygiene that a multi-team Engineering organization depends on. Pipeline authoring and CI/CD configuration are owned by the engineering teams themselves, not this role
• Takes command of ADO governance and standardization — establishing and enforcing project structure standards, naming conventions, board configurations, and workflow approaches that prevent the fragmentation that comes from ad hoc, admin-by-admin configuration choices
• Reviews and manages workflow configuration requests from Engineering teams — diagnosing the actual business problem behind each request, identifying root causes, and proposing better solutions rather than band-aid fixes like unnecessary fields or workaround processes
• Owns the administrative side of the Azure DevOps ↔ GitHub integration — repository links, GitHub Apps/OAuth connections, and work item linking — that connect Azure DevOps Boards to our GitHub-hosted repos, since our source code lives in GitHub rather than Azure Repos. Configuring pipeline-specific service connections and triggers is owned by the teams that build those pipelines
• Manages Azure DevOps user provisioning, permission models, and access reviews — ensuring access is scoped to least-privilege principles, regularly audited, promptly revoked when no longer needed, and documented to support compliance evidence requirements
• Monitors Azure DevOps platform health, usage patterns, adoption metrics, and configuration drift — proactively identifying workflow anomalies, over-provisioned permissions, and opportunities to standardize before those gaps create friction or risk
• Serves as the primary escalation point for Azure DevOps configuration issues — diagnosing platform-level incidents, working with Microsoft support when required, and resolving disruptions with the urgency that a platform used by every engineer in the organization demands
• Leverages AI tools to accelerate platform analysis and administration work — including AI-assisted workflow and governance configuration audits, AI-generated access audit summaries, and LLM-assisted platform documentation that keeps governance records current and discoverable
• Continuously identifies and eliminates manual administration toil across Azure DevOps — building PowerShell scripts, REST API automations, and workflow integrations that replace repetitive manual steps with reliable, auditable automated processes
• Develops and maintains monitoring and alerting for Azure DevOps platform health — including permission anomalies, configuration drift detection, and provisioning issues — so that platform degradation is detected and resolved proactively rather than reactively
• Automates access review processes, provisioning workflows, and compliance documentation generation — using scripting and AI tooling to maintain audit-ready governance records without proportional manual overhead
• Builds automation to enforce ADO standards — naming-convention checkers, board/process-template validation scripts, and configuration-compliance automations that prevent non-standard workflows from being deployed without a deliberate override
• Administers and supports LaunchDarkly, Flyway, and Cursor/AI tooling operations — assisting with provisioning, access controls, configuration governance, and platform health monitoring alongside the teammate(s) who own each platform
• Maintains unified provisioning standards, least-privilege access principles, and audit-ready access records across Azure DevOps, LaunchDarkly, Flyway, and AI tooling, so governance discipline doesn't stop at the ADO boundary
• Monitors integration health across administered systems — SDK evaluation errors, migration failures, and tooling provisioning issues — before they impact Engineering operations
• Builds cross-platform fluency over time, with the expectation of taking on deeper ownership of a second Engineering Systems platform domain — LaunchDarkly, Flyway, GitHub, or another tool the team adds to the portfolio — as the role matures. The specific set of “other tools” is not fixed and will shift as the team's responsibilities evolve
• Serves as the operational executor of the Engineering standards program — maintaining, publishing, formatting, and distributing standards documentation for coding conventions, branching strategies, pull request practices, code review requirements, and tooling usage as directed by the Engineering Systems Manager
• Owns the standards repository — ensuring documentation is accurately organized, consistently formatted, discoverable through the Engineering knowledge base, and immediately updated when standards are ratified or revised
• Monitors Engineering standards adherence across teams — identifying non-compliance patterns in code reviews, board and workflow configurations, branch naming, and tooling usage, and bringing specific, data-backed observations to the Engineering Systems Manager and relevant Engineering Managers for follow-through
• Supports standards retrospectives led by the Engineering Systems Manager — collecting adherence data, synthesizing engineering team feedback, and preparing materials that make retrospective sessions productive rather than anecdotal
• Builds and maintains internal enablement resources — ADO configuration guides, workflow standards references, governance how-tos, and onboarding materials — that empower Engineering teams to work within established standards correctly and independently, reducing the volume of repetitive support requests
• Maintains accurate, current platform configuration documentation and standards repositories — ensuring governance requirements, workflow patterns, and access policies are clearly documented and accessible to the Engineering organization
• Coordinates the onboarding standards experience for new Engineers — maintaining environment setup guides, tooling provisioning checklists, and standards orientation materials that are current, complete, and effective enough to be executed without handholding
• Tracks platform health, adoption metrics, support request trends, and standards compliance across administered systems — maintaining the operational data the Engineering Systems Manager needs to report accurately to the Director of Engineering Systems and to make informed investment decisions
• Maintains access control governance across all administered platforms — executing provisioning and de-provisioning requests promptly, enforcing least-privilege access principles, and maintaining accurate access records that support audit evidence requirements
• Conducts and documents regular access reviews across Azure DevOps, LaunchDarkly, Flyway, and Cursor — identifying over-provisioned accounts, stale access grants, and access policy violations, and resolving them in partnership with the Engineering Systems Manager and Security team
• Supports SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST 800-53 audit readiness by maintaining accurate, current platform configuration records, access inventories, and change histories — treating audit evidence as an ongoing operational discipline rather than a pre-audit scramble
• Responds to security-related configuration hardening requests with urgency and precision, partnering with the Security team on access-related incidents and policy enforcement actions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analysis, or a related field
• 2–4 years of hands-on Azure DevOps administration experience — including project configuration, access control governance, and multi-team organizational structures — with Azure DevOps as a primary, hands-on responsibility, not just usage as an end user
• Deep hands-on experience administering Azure DevOps — including project/org configuration, access control and permission models, and board/area path structure — at a depth sufficient to independently resolve platform configuration issues and act as an internal escalation point
• Strong scripting and automation skills — proficiency with PowerShell and/or REST APIs, and the ability to write reliable, maintainable automation scripts that other engineers can understand and modify
• Working knowledge of Git branching strategies, and familiarity with how Azure DevOps Boards and access controls connect to GitHub-hosted repositories — repository links, GitHub Apps/OAuth connections, branch policies, and status checks. Our source code lives in GitHub, not Azure Repos, so comfort bridging the two is important
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose the root cause behind a workflow request rather than implementing a band-aid fix — comfort proposing a better solution instead of the workaround that was asked for
• Experience managing access controls and user provisioning across engineering platforms with an understanding of least-privilege principles and compliance evidence requirements
• Strong organizational discipline and attention to detail — able to manage a high-traffic platform used by every engineer in the organization, maintain configuration hygiene, and track open items without dropping anything
• Clear written communication skills — able to produce platform documentation, enablement guides, and configuration records that are accurate and usable by engineering teams without requiring significant clarification
• 4–7 years of experience in Engineering Systems Administration, Platform Engineering, or DevOps, with demonstrated ownership of Azure DevOps at scale across multiple teams and projects
• Deep hands-on expertise in Azure DevOps — including complex multi-project/multi-org configurations, custom process templates, REST API/CLI-based automation, and integration with third-party tools such as GitHub
• Demonstrated experience building and owning Azure DevOps–centric automation — including workflow and process-template automation, access governance automation, and configuration drift detection — using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent scripting languages
• Demonstrated ability to design and enforce platform governance at scale — experience identifying configuration drift, preventing fragmentation, and establishing standards that teams adopt voluntarily because they solve real problems
• Experience contributing to Engineering standards programs — including drafting standards documentation, identifying standards gaps, and influencing adoption across multi-team engineering organizations
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior Platform Engineers — able to review Azure DevOps configurations, give structured technical feedback, and develop less experienced engineers into independently effective platform operators
• Strong familiarity with compliance requirements under SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST 800-53 in an engineering systems context — able to maintain audit-ready platform records and support evidence collection without requiring significant guidance
• A personal operating standard where the Azure DevOps environment they administer is better documented, more automated, and more reliably governed after six months of their ownership than it was when they took it on
• Exposure to, or willingness to learn, adjacent Engineering Systems platforms — feature flag management (LaunchDarkly), database migration tooling (Flyway), AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code), or whatever other tools the team administers
• Demonstrated use of AI development tools such as Cursor or Claude Code in day-to-day technical work