diff --git a/ci-operator/jobs/infra-build-farm-periodics.yaml b/ci-operator/jobs/infra-build-farm-periodics.yaml
index 2dd1f4025e4c1..fe4fd31b58817 100644
--- a/ci-operator/jobs/infra-build-farm-periodics.yaml
+++ b/ci-operator/jobs/infra-build-farm-periodics.yaml
@@ -440,6 +440,64 @@ periodics:
         - key: gce.json
           path: gce.json
         secretName: cluster-secrets-gcp-openshift-gce-devel-ci-2
+- agent: kubernetes
+  cluster: build02
+  decorate: true
+  decoration_config:
+    timeout: 8h0m0s
+  extra_refs:
+  - base_ref: main
+    org: openshift
+    repo: release
+    workdir: true
+  interval: 4h
+  labels:
+    ci.openshift.io/role: cloud-azure
+    pj-rehearse.openshift.io/can-be-rehearsed: "false"
+  max_concurrency: 1
+  name: periodic-ipi-deprovision-azure
+  reporter_config:
+    slack:
+      channel: '#ops-testplatform'
+      job_states_to_report:
+      - failure
+      - error
+      report_template: '@azure-ci-admin Job *{{.Spec.Job}}* failed. <{{.Status.URL}}|View
+        logs>'
+  spec:
+    containers:
+    - command:
+      - ./core-services/ipi-deprovision/azure.sh
+      env:
+      - name: HOME
+        value: /tmp
+      - name: AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION
+        value: /azure/osServicePrincipal.json
+      - name: CLUSTER_TTL
+        value: 6 hours ago
+      image: quay-proxy.ci.openshift.org/openshift/ci:ci_ipi-deprovision_latest
+      imagePullPolicy: Always
+      name: ipi-deprovision
+      resources:
+        requests:
+          cpu: "1"
+          memory: 600Mi
+      securityContext:
+        runAsNonRoot: true
+        runAsUser: 65534
+      volumeMounts:
+      - mountPath: /azure
+        name: cluster-secrets-azure4
+    nodeSelector:
+      beta.kubernetes.io/arch: amd64
+    serviceAccountName: ipi-deprovisioner
+    volumes:
+    - name: cluster-secrets-azure4
+      secret:
+        items:
+        - key: osServicePrincipal.json
+          path: osServicePrincipal.json
+        secretName: cluster-secrets-azure4
 - agent: kubernetes
   cluster: build02
   cron: '@daily'
diff --git a/clusters/app.ci/ipi-deprovision/ipi-deprovision-bc.yaml b/clusters/app.ci/ipi-deprovision/ipi-deprovision-bc.yaml
index 7a3bc8aebd254..9d8fc4bfe46c9 100644
--- a/clusters/app.ci/ipi-deprovision/ipi-deprovision-bc.yaml
+++ b/clusters/app.ci/ipi-deprovision/ipi-deprovision-bc.yaml
@@ -41,13 +41,16 @@ spec:
 
       ARG JQ_VERSION=1.6
 
-      RUN echo -e "[google-cloud-sdk]\nname=Google Cloud SDK\nbaseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el8-x86_64\nenabled=1" > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo
+      RUN echo -e "[google-cloud-sdk]\nname=Google Cloud SDK\nbaseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el8-x86_64\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg" > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo
 
       COPY ./oc /usr/bin/oc
       COPY ./openshift-install /usr/bin/openshift-install
       COPY ./hypershift /usr/bin/hypershift
 
-      RUN dnf install --nogpg -y google-cloud-sdk unzip jq less && \
+      RUN rpm --import https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg && \
+            rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc && \
+            echo -e "[azure-cli]\nname=Azure CLI\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/azure-cli\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/azure-cli.repo && \
+            dnf install -y google-cloud-sdk azure-cli unzip jq less && \
             dnf clean all && \
             curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" && \
             unzip awscliv2.zip && ./aws/install
diff --git a/core-services/ipi-deprovision/azure.sh b/core-services/ipi-deprovision/azure.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..0eaff713e056b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-services/ipi-deprovision/azure.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+trap 'CHILDREN=$(jobs -p); if test -n "${CHILDREN}"; then kill ${CHILDREN} && wait; fi' TERM
+
+function queue() {
+  local LIVE="$(jobs | wc -l)"
+  while [[ "${LIVE}" -ge 10 ]]; do
+    sleep 1
+    LIVE="$(jobs | wc -l)"
+  done
+  echo "${@}"
+  "${@}" &
+}
+
+function deprovision() {
+  WORKDIR="${1}"
+  timeout --signal=SIGTERM 30m openshift-install --dir "${WORKDIR}" --log-level error destroy cluster && touch "${WORKDIR}/success" || touch "${WORKDIR}/failure"
+}
+
+logdir="${ARTIFACTS}/deprovision"
+mkdir -p "${logdir}"
+
+AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION="${AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION:-/azure/osServicePrincipal.json}"
+export AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION
+
+# Disable tracing due to credential handling
+[[ $- == *x* ]] && WAS_TRACING=true || WAS_TRACING=false
+set +x
+AZURE_CLIENT_ID="$(jq -r .clientId "${AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION}")"
+AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET="$(jq -r .clientSecret "${AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION}")"
+AZURE_TENANT_ID="$(jq -r .tenantId "${AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION}")"
+AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID="$(jq -r .subscriptionId "${AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION}")"
+
+az login --service-principal \
+  -u "${AZURE_CLIENT_ID}" \
+  -p "${AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET}" \
+  --tenant "${AZURE_TENANT_ID}" \
+  --output none
+$WAS_TRACING && set -x
+
+az account set --subscription "${AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID}"
+echo "Azure subscription: ${AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID}"
+
+azure_rg_age_cutoff="$(date -u --date="${CLUSTER_TTL}" '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')"
+echo "deprovisioning clusters with resource groups created before ${azure_rg_age_cutoff} ..."
+
+# List resource groups with creation time via ARM REST API ($expand=createdTime).
+rg_json="[]"
+next_url="/subscriptions/${AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID}/resourcegroups?api-version=2021-04-01&\$expand=createdTime"
+while [[ -n "${next_url}" ]]; do
+  page="$(az rest --method get --url "${next_url}")"
+  rg_json="$(jq -s '.[0] + [.[1].value[] | {name: .name, location: .location, created: .createdTime, state: .properties.provisioningState}]' \
+    <(echo "${rg_json}") <(echo "${page}"))"
+  next_url="$(echo "${page}" | jq -r '.nextLink // empty')"
+done
+
+while IFS=$'\t' read -r rg_name rg_location rg_created rg_state; do
+  [[ -z "${rg_name}" ]] && continue
+  [[ "${rg_state}" == "Deleting" ]] && continue
+
+  # Match CI-created resource groups: the IPI installer creates resource groups
+  # named <infraID>-rg where the infraID starts with "ci-op-" (the CI namespace).
+  if [[ ! "${rg_name}" =~ ^ci-op- ]]; then
+    continue
+  fi
+
+  if [[ "${rg_created}" > "${azure_rg_age_cutoff}" ]]; then
+    continue
+  fi
+
+  # Derive the infraID from the resource group name by stripping the -rg suffix.
+  # If the RG doesn't end in -rg, use the full name as infraID.
+  if [[ "${rg_name}" =~ ^(.+)-rg$ ]]; then
+    infraID="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+  else
+    infraID="${rg_name}"
+  fi
+
+  workdir="${logdir}/${infraID}"
+  mkdir -p "${workdir}"
+  cat <<EOF >"${workdir}/metadata.json"
+{
+  "infraID":"${infraID}",
+  "azure":{
+    "region":"${rg_location}",
+    "resourceGroupName":"${rg_name}",
+    "cloudName":"AzurePublicCloud"
+  }
+}
+EOF
+  echo "will deprovision Azure cluster ${infraID} in ${rg_location} (rg: ${rg_name}, created: ${rg_created})"
+done < <(echo "${rg_json}" | jq -r '.[] | [.name, .location, .created, .state] | @tsv')
+
+# log installer version for debugging purposes
+openshift-install version
+
+clusters=$( find "${logdir}" -mindepth 1 -type d )
+for workdir in $(shuf <<< ${clusters}); do
+  queue deprovision "${workdir}"
+done
+
+if ! wait; then
+  echo "At least one deprovision job failed or timed out."
+fi
+
+# Force-delete resource groups that openshift-install failed to clean up
+for workdir in $(find "${logdir}" -mindepth 1 -type d); do
+  if [[ -f "${workdir}/failure" ]]; then
+    rg_name="$(jq -r '.azure.resourceGroupName' "${workdir}/metadata.json")"
+    echo "openshift-install failed for ${rg_name}, force-deleting resource group ..."
+    if az group delete --name "${rg_name}" --yes; then
+      echo "Successfully force-deleted resource group ${rg_name}"
+      rm "${workdir}/failure"
+      touch "${workdir}/warning"
+    else
+      echo "Failed to force-delete resource group ${rg_name}"
+    fi
+  fi
+done
+
+WARNINGS="$(find "${logdir}" -mindepth 2 -type f -name warning -printf '%h\n' | sort)"
+if [[ -n "${WARNINGS}" ]]; then
+  echo "The following clusters required force-deletion of their resource groups:"
+  xargs --max-args 1 basename <<< $WARNINGS
+fi
+
+FAILED="$(find "${logdir}" -mindepth 2 -type f -name failure -printf '%h\n' | sort)"
+if [[ -n "${FAILED}" ]]; then
+  echo "Deprovision failed on the following clusters:"
+  xargs --max-args 1 basename <<< $FAILED
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Deprovision finished successfully"