Deployment Engineer

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.

Job overview:

We are seeking a Deployment Engineer with strong expertise in Azure DevOps release management, Azure Infrastructure, AKS, Terraform, PowerShell, and production support to drive reliable, secure, and efficient deployments across cloud and on-premise environments. This role will own end-to-end release execution, troubleshooting, automation, and continuous improvement of deployment processes while ensuring minimal downtime and exceptional stakeholder experience.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Plan, execute, and validate deployments across cloud (primarily Microsoft Azure) and on-premise environments, ensuring high reliability and minimal downtime.
• Own end-to-end release execution, including deployment package preparation, release coordination, post-deployment validation, and rollback readiness.
• Execute day-to-day deployment operations with a strong focus on environment stability, performance, and customer experience across UAT and production.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, QA, Security, and Cloud Operations teams to plan releases, identify risks, and resolve deployment issues quickly.
• Design, manage, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps/Git to enhance deployment speed, accuracy, and repeatability.
• Develop and maintain automation through PowerShell and/or Python scripting to reduce manual effort and deployment risk.
• Implement release engineering best practices such as blue/green deployments, canary releases, artifact and version management.
• Maintain environment parity between UAT and Production, managing approvals, change windows, and change management processes.
• Ensure deployments comply with security standards, access controls, patching, configuration management, and audit requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment-related incidents and defects in real time, driving rapid recovery.
• Improve operational excellence by enhancing observability, reducing MTTR, and continuously strengthening SLAs and SLOs.
• Create, maintain, and continuously improve deployment documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Provide clear, timely stakeholder communication on deployment status, risks, and incidents

Key Skills:

• Azure Devops - Mostly on the release deployment not on CI
• Azure Infrastructure Paas
• AKS
• Troubleshooting Skills
• Windows Server
• IIS
• PowerShell
• Strong Communication
• Terraform

 

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