Senior DevOps with Infrastructure

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.

Senior DevOps with Infrastructure

Role: Senior DevOps with Infrastructure

Type: Remote - working EST Hours

Security Clearance: Must be eligible for up to a Top-Secret Security Clearance

Job Overview

The Senior DevOps Engineer is a critical hands-on role responsible for the architecture, deployment, and performance optimization of a cloud-native, real-time data processing platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage the underlying data platform using Kubernetes to ensure high-scalability and resiliency for distributed data workload.
• Build and maintain high-throughput ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and Apache Spark.
• Implement and tune the distributed SQL query engine Trino against the Iceberg table format to optimize query performance and data reliability.
• Develop core services, APIs, and automation tooling for the data platform primarily using the C# programming language, ensuring speed and reliability.
• Architect and implement robust authentication and authorization integrations across the platform, including seamless connectivity via LDAP/SSO protocols.
• Utilize Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Helm) and GitOps principles to manage the platform lifecycle and enforce immutable infrastructure practices.
• Work closely with security teams to implement and audit IAM policies and ensure container security best practices are followed.

Must-Have:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps in Infrastructure with hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration, tuning, and deployment in production environments.
• C# for building platform services and integration points.
• Deploying, configuring, and optimizing Trino for large, federated data sets.
• Implementing Iceberg table format for data lake transactions and schema evolution.
• Python and mandatory practical experience with Apache Spark for data processing.
• Integrating enterprise authentication and authorization protocols (LDAP/SSO) into microservices.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and GitOps workflows.
• Strong foundation in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with container runtimes and image management (Docker).
• Professional knowledge of deep Networking and network security in a cloud-native context.
• Experience with centralized identity providers such as KeyCloak.

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