Senior Deployment & Production Reliability Architect

Connect Tech+Talent; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect Tech+Talent in Foster City, CA is seeking a Principal Deployment & Production Reliability Architect to lead secure and automated deployment practices for production environments using Harness, Kubernetes, and GitOps.

The role demands hands-on expertise in Harness CI/CD, Continuous Verification, Argo Rollouts, Helm, Docker, and cloud infrastructure, along with strong DevSecOps controls and security gates within pipelines.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of relevant experience in deployment and reliability.
• Hands-on Harness CI/CD and Continuous Verification expertise.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes administration and production operations.
• Experience with GitOps and cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Canary, Blue-Green, and progressive delivery strategies.
• DevSecOps controls and security gates in deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using Harness.
• Implement security gates and DevSecOps controls in deployment processes.
• Administer production Kubernetes environments and deployments.
• Develop Harness CV capabilities for deployment health validation.
• Implement Canary, Blue-Green, and progressive delivery strategies.
• Manage Argo Rollouts, Analysis Templates, Runs, and automated promotion/rollback.
• Develop Helm charts and Kubernetes resources (Deployments, Services, Ingress, CronJobs).
• Enable automated rollback and deployment verification.
• Support Docker containerization and GitOps-based deployments.
• Troubleshoot Linux systems and production deployment issues.
• Apply Kubernetes security practices, RBAC, and access controls.
• Address container security, vulnerability management, and cloud networking.

Skills

Harness CI/CD & CV

Kubernetes administration

GitOps workflows

AWS Cloud infrastructure

Security best practices

Education

None

Tools

Argo Rollouts

Helm

Docker

Terraform

Istio/Linkerd

Job description

Connect Tech+Talent in Foster City, CA is seeking a Principal Deployment & Production Reliability Architect to lead secure and automated deployment practices for production environments using Harness, Kubernetes, and GitOps.

The role demands hands-on expertise in Harness CI/CD, Continuous Verification, Argo Rollouts, Helm, Docker, and cloud infrastructure, along with strong DevSecOps controls and security gates within pipelines.