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:
The DevOps Architect is responsible for defining and implementing the organization's DevOps strategy, cloud architecture, automation frameworks, CI/CD platforms, infrastructure-as-code standards, and operational excellence initiatives. This role serves as the technical authority for deployment automation, cloud-native architecture, platform reliability, observability, security, and engineering productivity.
The DevOps Architect partners with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, QA, Product Management, and Operations teams to design scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms that accelerate software delivery while maintaining operational stability and governance.
Key Responsibilities:
DevOps Strategy & Architecture- Define and execute enterprise DevOps and platform engineering strategies.
- Design end-to-end CI/CD architectures supporting multiple applications and environments.
- Establish DevOps standards, patterns, frameworks, and best practices across teams.
- Lead modernization initiatives including cloud transformation, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Platform Engineering.
- Architect scalable cloud solutions across Azure cloud environments.
- Design high-availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region deployment strategies.
- Define infrastructure standards for networking, security, storage, compute, and container platforms.
- Drive infrastructure optimization initiatives focused on performance, resilience, and cost management.
- Design and implement automated build, test, deployment, and release pipelines.
- Standardize deployment processes using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar tools.
- Create reusable automation frameworks and deployment templates.
- Eliminate manual operational activities through intelligent automation.
- Architect Kubernetes, AKS, and container-based platforms.
- Define deployment standards for microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
- Implement ADO practices and self-service engineering platforms.
- Establish platform scalability and reliability frameworks.
- Define SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, and operational KPIs.
- Architect enterprise observability solutions using monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms.
- Improve system availability, performance, and incident response capabilities.
- Lead root cause analysis and continuous service improvement initiatives.
- Embed DevSecOps controls throughout software development and deployment processes.
- Implement security scanning, vulnerability management, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
- Ensure compliance with organizational, regulatory, and audit requirements.
- Collaborate with security teams to establish secure engineering practices.
- Mentor engineers, architects, and DevOps teams.
- Provide architectural guidance for complex engineering initiatives.
- Conduct architecture reviews and technical governance sessions.
- Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement across delivery teams.
- Align technical solutions with strategic business objectives.
- Present architecture roadmaps and transformation initiatives to leadership.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams.
- Support executive decision-making through technical assessments and recommendations.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Mandatory:Cloud Computing
- CI/CD
- Communication skills
- DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Performance Tuning
- Problem solving
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Solution architecture
- Stakeholder Management
- Azure
- Technical Documentation
- Minimum 0 years of experience
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Skills Required
- Cloud Computing
- CI/CD
- Communication skills
- DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Performance Tuning
- Problem solving
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Solution architecture
- Stakeholder Management
- Azure
- Technical Documentation
- Minimum 0 years of experience
Orion Innovation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Orion highlights health and well-being initiatives such as fitness, mindfulness, and flexibility/remote options, reinforced by recognition like Cigna’s Healthy Workforce Designation. Flexibility via hybrid/remote work is positioned as a consistent part of the overall rewards experience.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as moderately satisfactory overall, with pockets where compensation is viewed as fair, particularly for some software engineering and certain U.S. roles. Public snapshots also indicate that competitiveness can be stronger in specific markets and functions.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
