Harness CI/CD Architect

<div class="content-intro"><p>Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.</p></div><p><strong>Project Overview:</strong></p> <p>Join our Delivery department as an Architect to play a pivotal role in optimizing and streamlining development processes using cutting-edge tools and methodologies. This position focuses on implementing robust DevOps practices and leveraging cloud technologies to drive efficiency and scalability.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p><strong>Role Overview</strong></p> <p>We are looking for a&nbsp;<strong>hands-on Harness CI/CD Architect/Lead</strong>&nbsp;to define, architect, and implement enterprise&nbsp;<strong>CI/CD Gold Standards</strong>&nbsp;using Harness. The architect will establish scalable, secure, automated CI/CD patterns and drive adoption across application and engineering teams.</p> <p>This role requires someone who can&nbsp;<strong>architect, build, conduct POCs, implement, and standardize</strong> CI/CD solutions—not just provide architectural guidance.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Define enterprise CI/CD architecture, standards, and reference architectures using Harness.</li> <li>Establish CI/CD Gold Standards covering build, test, security, artifact management, deployment, release, approvals, rollback, and governance.</li> <li>Design and implement Harness CI/CD pipelines and reusable pipeline templates.</li> <li>Build hands-on POCs and reference implementations across different application and technology stacks.</li> <li>Implement deployment strategies including rolling, blue/green, canary, and progressive delivery.</li> <li>Integrate Harness with GitHub actions, Blackduck, Egg plant, ServiceNow, Jira, Terraform, OCP, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and GCP.</li> <li>Establish DevSecOps controls and security gates within CI/CD pipelines.</li> <li>Define CI/CD patterns for Kubernetes, microservices, cloud-native applications, and Infrastructure as Code.</li> <li>Assess and modernize existing CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps and GitLab.</li> <li>Evaluate DevOps tools and technologies thr