Harness CI/CD Architect

Project Overview:

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.

Key Responsibilities:

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Harness CI/CD Architect/Lead to define, architect, and implement enterprise CI/CD Gold Standards using Harness. The architect will establish scalable, secure, automated CI/CD patterns and drive adoption across application and engineering teams.

This role requires someone who can architect, build, conduct POCs, implement, and standardize CI/CD solutions—not just provide architectural guidance.

Key Responsibilities

Define enterprise CI/CD architecture, standards, and reference architectures using Harness.

Establish CI/CD Gold Standards covering build, test, security, artifact management, deployment, release, approvals, rollback, and governance.

Design and implement Harness CI/CD pipelines and reusable pipeline templates.

Build hands-on POCs and reference implementations across different application and technology stacks.

Implement deployment strategies including rolling, blue/green, canary, and progressive delivery.

Integrate Harness with GitHub actions, Blackduck, Egg plant, ServiceNow, Jira, Terraform, OCP, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and GCP.

Establish DevSecOps controls and security gates within CI/CD pipelines.

Define CI/CD patterns for Kubernetes, microservices, cloud-native applications, and Infrastructure as Code.

Assess and modernize existing CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps and GitLab.

Evaluate DevOps tools and technologies through POCs and technical assessments, providing clear recommendations.

Establish CI/CD governance, engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and adoption guidelines.

Partner with engineering, cloud, security and platform teams to drive enterprise adoption.

Define and track CI/CD metrics including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, pipeline reliability and automation.

Required Skills

Strong hands-on Harness CI/CD experience.

Enterprise CI/CD architecture and implementation experience.

Strong DevSecOps knowledge.

Hands-on experience with OCP, Docker and Terraform.

Strong Git and pipeline-as-code experience.

Experience with AWS, Azure

Experience integrating CI/CD with security, ITSM, artifact management and observability tools.

Strong scripting/automation skills using Python, Bash or similar.

Proven ability to conduct POCs and implement production solutions.

What We Are Looking For

A hands-on architect, not a documentation-only architect.

Ability to translate requirements into scalable CI/CD architecture.

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Ability to establish standards and drive adoption across engineering teams.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Passion for automation, engineering productivity and continuous improvement.