Azure DevOps Administrator

This role is responsible for creating, managing, securing, and continuously improving Azure DevOps pipelines and related platform governance. The Azure DevOps Pipeline and Governance Administrator establishes pipeline standards, enforces policies, manages repositories and permissions, supports CI/CD adoption, and partners with infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver reliable, compliant, and automated deployment practices across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, manage, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for application, infrastructure, and automation workloads.
• Establish and enforce Azure DevOps governance standards, including pipeline templates, branch policies, approval gates, security controls, naming standards, and repository management practices.
• Manage Azure DevOps projects, repositories, boards, permissions, service connections, agent pools, environments, and release controls.
• Implement CI/CD best practices to improve deployment consistency, automation, traceability, and operational reliability.
• Maintain governance for code promotion, change control, pull requests, release approvals, and segregation of duties across DevOps workflows.
• Partner with security teams to embed secure development practices, credential management, least-privilege access, and policy compliance into pipeline processes.
• Automate operational and administrative tasks using YAML pipelines, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Terraform and platform-native automation tools.
• Monitor pipeline performance, troubleshoot failures, improve reliability, and coordinate resolution of build, deployment, and access issues.
• Document DevOps standards, pipeline patterns, support procedures, governance requirements, and operational runbooks.
• Provide supporting administration for Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 services where needed to enable secure DevOps operations.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise experience with DevOps and administration
• Hands-on experience creating, managing, and troubleshooting Azure DevOps YAML and classic pipelines.
• Experience administering Azure DevOps projects, repositories, permissions, branch policies, service connections, and agent pools.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, release management, source control, pull request workflows, and deployment governance.
• Experience implementing governance controls, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and audit-ready DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience with PowerShell, YAML, Azure CLI, scripting, Docker and automation.
• Working knowledge of Azure services, Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, and secure access management.
• Ability to collaborate with infrastructure, security, application, and operations teams to support reliable delivery practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing reusable pipeline templates, shared libraries, and standardized deployment patterns.
• Experience integrating security scanning, compliance checks, artifact management, and approval gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform, or similar technologies.
• Experience with least-privilege administration, privileged identity management, access reviews, and audit readiness.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications in Azure, DevOps, Security, or Identity.
• Experience producing operational reporting, KPI metrics, and governance dashboards for DevOps platform health and compliance.

EEO: The policy of Hillenbrand Inc. is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.  Additionally, Hillenbrand Inc. and our operating companies are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at [email protected].  In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.  At Hillenbrand, everyone is welcome to apply and "Shape What Matters for Tomorrow".

Who we are: 

Mold-Masters (www.moldmasters.com) is a leading global supplier of hot runners, controllers, auxiliary injection and co-injection systems. We design, manufacture, distribute, sell and service highly engineered and customized plastic processing equipment that caters to every market. Mold-Masters is a business unit of Hillenbrand.

Hillenbrand (www.hillenbrand.com) is a global industrial company that provides highly engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders.

EEO: The policy of Hillenbrand Inc. is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.  Additionally, Hillenbrand Inc. and our operating companies are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at [email protected] .  In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.  At Hillenbrand, everyone is welcome to apply and "Shape What Matters for Tomorrow".