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.
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to support the automation, security, reliability, and operational stability of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
As a strong, hands-on engineer, you will work within the DevOps / Infrastructure team, reporting to and coordinating priorities with the Team Lead or Manager. The ideal candidate possesses deep experience in Linux systems, networking, cloud platforms, automation, CI/CD, and production operations, with the ability to work independently and troubleshoot complex issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, operate, and improve production infrastructure environments and Linux-based systems.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
- Support cloud, virtualization, and container-based platforms while improving system hardening, monitoring, logging, and alerting practices.
- Investigate and resolve production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implemented long-term improvements.
- Work closely with engineering teams to support release processes and maintain clear infrastructure documentation, procedures, and runbooks.
Required Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of Strong Infrastructure/DevOps with Linux administration and troubleshooting experience in production-grade environments.
- Deep understanding of networking protocols and concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, SSL/TLS, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, firewalls, and load balancing).
- Ability to analyze system behavior, diagnose performance issues, and resolve complex infrastructure problems.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, release management, and environment promotion workflows.
- Hands-on experience with configuration management tools, specifically Chef.
- Solid scripting skills using Bash, Python, or similar languages to automate repetitive tasks.
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code review processes.
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud/virtualization platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure, or VMware.
- Experience with container tools (Docker / Podman).
- Experience with container orchestration or enterprise platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, or HPE VME/virtualization) is a strong advantage.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, hardening, and operational best practices.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, centralized logging, and structured production incident response.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Knowledge of stacks like ELK or OpenSearch.
- Experience with high-availability systems, backup, disaster recovery, and microservices.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of Strong Infrastructure/DevOps with Linux administration
- Deep understanding of networking protocols and concepts
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on experience with configuration management tools, specifically Chef
- Solid scripting skills using Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure, or VMware
- Experience with container tools such as Docker / Podman
- Experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security
- Experience with monitoring and alerting
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.
