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.
Summary:
The Senior Cloud / AI Developer designs, develops, and maintains Java-based, cloud-native applications on GCP that support business workflows. This role builds secure, scalable services. The position collaborates closely with DevOps, QA, Product Management, and security stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions that meet performance, security, and compliance expectations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITES
- Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications for cloud environments, using modern engineering practices. and cloud-native patterns.
- Implement cloud-native solutions on GCP to support ingestion, processing, storage, retrieval, and distribution workflows.
- Create and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with internal services and external partners, including versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility
- Implement AI-enabled capabilities for use cases.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues and defects in cloud applications, including root-cause analysis and preventative fixes.
- Ensure applications meet security standards and applicable compliance requirements through secure coding practices, authorization controls, encryption, auditing, and policy-aligned data handling.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for repeatable deployments and environment consistency in partnership with DevOps.
- Implement observability practices including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and operational documentation/runbooks.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including DevOps, QA, and Product Management to plan, deliver, test, and support high-quality software solutions.
- Participate in architecture/design reviews, code reviews, and technical documentation; contribute to shared standards and best practices.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Strong professional experience developing backend services and APIs in Java.
- Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating applications on GCP, using serverless and/or container-based approaches.
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, including authentication/authorization patterns and integration with other services.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into applications and familiarity with basic evaluation/monitoring concepts.
- Knowledge of secure engineering practices, including least privilege, service accounts, secrets management, encryption in transit/at rest, and audit logging.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code and Git-based development workflows.
- Strong troubleshooting skills for cloud applications, including defect triage, performance tuning, and production support with observability tools.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, QA, DevOps, product, and security stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices.
- Familiarity with change/configuration management tools (for example: VersionOne, ServiceNow) and/or Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices.
- Hands-on exposure to container or serverless concepts (for example: Docker, Kubernetes fundamentals, or managed/serverless deployments).
Additional Required Skills/Experience:
- Over Thirteen (13) years’ of relevant experience.
- A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual's degree is not in the applicable field then four additional years of related experience is required.
- Typically performs all functional duties independently.
Note: Special credentials (licenses and/or certifications) may be required at the Task Order level on a case-specific basis.
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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Skills Required
- Strong professional experience developing backend services and APIs in Java
- Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating applications on Google Cloud Platform using serverless or container-based approaches
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, including authentication and authorization patterns and service integrations
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into applications and familiarity with basic evaluation and monitoring concepts
- Knowledge of secure engineering practices, including least privilege, service accounts, secrets management, encryption, and audit logging
- Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and Git-based development workflows
- Strong cloud application troubleshooting skills, including defect triage, performance tuning, production support, and observability tools
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, QA, DevOps, product, and security teams
- Exposure to Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle practices
- Familiarity with VersionOne, ServiceNow, change and configuration management, or application lifecycle management practices
- Hands-on exposure to Docker, Kubernetes fundamentals, or managed/serverless deployments
- More than thirteen years of relevant experience
- Degree from an accredited college or university in an applicable field; otherwise, four additional years of related experience
- Ability to perform functional duties independently
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.
