Power Platform and Azure DevOps Expert

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• Provide administration and support for around 100 Power Platform environments

• Develop guidelines and offer direction to approximately 150 developers across various teams

• Create Power Platform administration strategies, governance policies, lifecycle management, environment groups, and managed-environment governance

• Design and implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, connector classifications, and compliance practices

• Monitor platform usage, capacity, health, deployments, and production diagnostics

• Architect Dynamics 365 solutions while resolving solution layer conflicts, customization precedence issues, and dependency chains

• Break down monolithic Dynamics 365 solutions into modular deployment units

• Oversee multi-team development environments, release streams, branching strategies, hotfixes, and parallel development

• Manage Azure Repos, pull-request governance, and code-review processes

• Implement repository-based solution unpacking/packing using Power Platform Build Tools and PAC CLI

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release orchestration for Power Platform solutions

• Automate the deployment of Dynamics 365 solutions, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate flows, environment variables, and connection references

• Automate flow activation, environment migration, service-account configuration, and deployment validation

• Deploy configuration, reference, lookup, security, and application data across environments

• Manage Dynamics 365 security roles, teams, business units, field-level security, hierarchical security, service principals, and application users

• Configure Power Pages web roles, table permissions, authentication providers, external access, API security, and portal governance

• Integrate pipelines with Azure AD, service principals, Key Vault, monitoring, Application Insights, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics

• Implement automated quality controls, approval gates, deployment controls, segregation of duties, and release auditing

• Establish alerting, deployment health monitoring, audit reporting, disaster recovery, and environment restore management

• Engage in SAFe Agile ceremonies and collaborate with developers, analysts, and product owners

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience for each mandatory requirement

• Proven track record as a Power Platform architect, administrator, or DevOps lead in an enterprise setting

• Demonstrated experience in leading multiple teams

• Extensive practical knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages)

• Strong proficiency in Azure DevOps, including pipeline creation, variable groups, service connections, and release management

• Significant experience with Git-based Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Power Platform, covering solution unpacking/packing and automated versioning

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional technical and business teams

• Extensive hands-on experience in managing enterprise-scale Power Platform environments throughout a full Development, Testing, Acceptance, and Production (DTAP) pipeline

• Experience in designing enterprise-scale governance and ALM strategies, including DLP policies, managed environments, and environment groups

• Expertise in Dynamics 365 solution architecture, covering solution layering, dependencies, patches, upgrades, and solution holding

• Familiarity with decomposing monolithic Dynamics 365 solutions into modular, independently deployable units

• Experience in designing and managing Git-based ALM workflows for Power Platform

• Proven ability to build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform solution deployment

• Experience in managing Dynamics 365 security, including security roles, business units, and application users

• EU citizenship is required

• Preferred certifications (not mandatory): PL-600, PL-400, AZ-400, AZ-104

• Highly valued but not mandatory: Azure Key Vault integration, configuration/master data deployment tooling, regulated enterprise Dynamics 365 implementations, and Power Pages/Dynamics 365 AI security

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work from the EU with occasional visits