Devops 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:

The Dev Ops Architect is responsible for defining and implementing the organization's Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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:

Dev Ops Strategy & Architecture Define and execute enterprise Dev Ops and platform engineering strategies.

Design end-to-end CI/CD architectures supporting multiple applications and environments.

Establish Dev Ops standards, patterns, frameworks, and best practices across teams.

Lead modernization initiatives including cloud transformation, Git Ops, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Platform Engineering.

Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture 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.

Automation & CI/CDDesign and implement automated build, test, deployment, and release pipelines.

Standardize deployment processes using Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions or similar tools.

Create reusable automation frameworks and deployment templates.

Eliminate manual operational activities through intelligent automation.

Platform Engineering & Containerization 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.

Reliability Engineering & Observability 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.

Security & Compliance Embed Dev Sec Ops  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.

Technical Leadership Mentor engineers, architects, and Dev Ops teams.

Provide architectural guidance for complex engineering initiatives.

Conduct architecture reviews and technical governance sessions.

Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement across delivery teams.

Stakeholder Management 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 ComputingCI/CDCommunication skills

Dev Ops Kubernetes Performance  Tuning Problem solving

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Solution architecture

Stakeholder Management Azure Technical  Documentation Minimum 0 years of experience

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,…