Architect

Architect — Harness CI/CD & DevSecOps (Columbus, OH)

Location: Columbus, OH (Hybrid) • Employment Type: CTC, W2 • Job Code: JB-XIKBUSXA • Estimated Pay Rate: $75/hr (as provided)

About Orion Innovation

Orion Innovation is seeking an experienced CI/CD Architect to lead enterprise DevSecOps initiatives and establish scalable, secure continuous delivery standards. This role is hands-on and focused on implementing solutions, conducting POCs, and driving adoption across engineering teams.

Why Join Us?

• Lead enterprise-scale CI/CD and DevSecOps transformation using modern tools such as Harness, Terraform, OpenShift and cloud platforms.
• Hybrid work model with a strong emphasis on technical leadership and cross-team collaboration.
• Competitive compensation and opportunities to influence engineering standards and platform direction.
• Work on measurable outcomes including deployment frequency, lead time and pipeline reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise CI/CD architecture, standards and reference implementations using Harness.
• Design and implement reusable Harness pipelines and pipeline templates to standardize delivery patterns.
• Establish CI/CD Gold Standards covering build, test, security, artifact management, releases, approvals and rollback strategies.
• Build hands-on POCs and reference implementations across microservices, Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native stacks.
• Implement deployment strategies such as rolling, blue/green, canary and progressive delivery.
• Integrate CI/CD with version control, security tooling, ITSM, artifact repositories, observability and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Assess and modernize existing CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab) and provide clear migration recommendations.
• Establish governance, reusable frameworks and adoption guidelines; track CI/CD metrics to measure impact.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience with Harness CI/CD and enterprise CI/CD architecture and implementation.
• Strong DevSecOps knowledge and experience implementing security gates and controls within pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift (OCP), Docker, Terraform and Kubernetes delivery patterns.
• Solid Git and pipeline-as-code skills, plus scripting/automation using Python or Bash.
• Experience integrating CI/CD with AWS and Azure cloud services and common platform tools.
• Experience delivering POCs and production-grade implementations across diverse technology stacks.
• Excellent troubleshooting, stakeholder communication and ability to drive adoption across engineering teams.
• Non-negotiable: Dynatrace experience including evangelization/onboarding of applications and the ability to demonstrate gold-standard implementations.

Core Technologies

• Harness, CI/CD, Pipeline as Code
• OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes
• Terraform, Git, Artifact Management
• AWS, Azure; Scripting with Python and Bash
• Observability with Dynatrace; integrations with ITSM and security tooling

Ready to Apply?

Please send your resume and a brief summary of relevant Harness/Dynatrace experience to the recruiter below. In your message, note your availability and any recent examples of CI/CD standards or POCs you've delivered.

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