Harness CI/CD Architect

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Project Overview:

Join our Delivery department as an Architect to play a pivotal role in optimizing and streamlining development processes using cutting-edge tools and methodologies. This position focuses on implementing robust DevOps practices and leveraging cloud technologies to drive efficiency and scalability.

Key Responsibilities:

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Harness CI/CD Architect/Lead to define, architect, and implement enterprise CI/CD Gold Standards using Harness. The architect will establish scalable, secure, automated CI/CD patterns and drive adoption across application and engineering teams.

This role requires someone who can architect, build, conduct POCs, implement, and standardize CI/CD solutions—not just provide architectural guidance.

Key Responsibilities

- Define enterprise CI/CD architecture, standards, and reference architectures using Harness.

- Establish CI/CD Gold Standards covering build, test, security, artifact management, deployment, release, approvals, rollback, and governance.

- Design and implement Harness CI/CD pipelines and reusable pipeline templates.

- Build hands-on POCs and reference implementations across different application and technology stacks.

- Implement deployment strategies including rolling, blue/green, canary, and progressive delivery.

- Integrate Harness with GitHub actions, Blackduck, Egg plant, ServiceNow, Jira, Terraform, OCP, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and GCP.

- Establish DevSecOps controls and security gates within CI/CD pipelines.

- Define CI/CD patterns for Kubernetes, microservices, cloud-native applications, and Infrastructure as Code.

- Assess and modernize existing CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps and GitLab.

- Evaluate DevOps tools and technologies through POCs and technical assessments, providing clear recommendations.

- Establish CI/CD governance, engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and adoption guidelines.

- Partner with engineering, cloud, security and platform teams to drive enterprise adoption.

- Define and track CI/CD metrics including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, pipeline reliability and automation.

Required Skills

- Strong hands-on Harness CI/CD experience.

- Enterprise CI/CD architecture and implementation experience.

- Strong DevSecOps knowledge.

- Hands-on experience with OCP, Docker and Terraform.

- Strong Git and pipeline-as-code experience.

- Experience with AWS, Azure

- Experience integrating CI/CD with security, ITSM, artifact management and observability tools.

- Strong scripting/automation skills using Python, Bash or similar.

- Proven ability to conduct POCs and implement production solutions.

What We Are Looking For

- A hands-on architect, not a documentation-only architect.

- Ability to translate requirements into scalable CI/CD architecture.

- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to establish standards and drive adoption across engineering teams.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Passion for automation, engineering productivity and continuous improvement.

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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