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<div class="content-intro">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.</div>Deployment Engineer Experience- 5-8 years Location- Kochi, Coimbatore, Chennai Job Overview   <div> We are looking for a Deployment Engineer with 5–8 years of experience in application deployments and release management, primarily in Azure DevOps environments. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on skills in CI/CD pipeline setup and support, deployment automation, and basic administration knowledge of IIS and database deployment practices using SQL. <hr> <h2>Key Responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Manage and execute end-to-end application deployments across development, QA, UAT, and production environments.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Build, maintain, and support CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (YAML/classic pipelines).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Automate deployments and environment provisioning using PowerShell / scripting (as applicable).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Coordinate release activities including deployment planning, approvals, rollback strategies, and post-deployment validation.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Support application hosting deployments on Windows servers / IIS (basic troubleshooting and configuration support).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Assist in SQL deployment activities (running scripts, supporting schema changes, deployment validation).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Monitor deployments, identify issues, troubleshoot failures, and work with application/dev teams to resolve them quickly.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Maintain deployment documentation: release notes, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Ensure compliance with change management and best practices (logging, approvals, audit-ready documentation).</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Must-Have Skills</h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">5–8 years of experience in Deployment/Release Engineering or DevOps support.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps: <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Pipeline creation & troubleshooting</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Releases and build deployments</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Artifacts and versioning</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Deployment and environment support experience in Windows-based hosting setups.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">SQL knowledge (basic–intermediate): <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Running deployment scripts, validating changes</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Understanding of database objects (tables, procedures, views)</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">IIS basic knowledge: <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Application pool, website bindings, deployment setup</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Basic troubleshooting (logs, site start/stop, recycle app pools)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Good-to-Have Skills</h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with PowerShell scripting for deployment automation.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Exposure to Azure services (App Services, Azure VM, Storage, Key Vault, etc.).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge of Git and branching strategies.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Understanding of monitoring/logging tools (App Insights, ELK, Splunk, etc.).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">ITIL/change management process knowledge.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>Qualifications</h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering or equivalent experience.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong communication and coordination skills (work closely with Dev, QA, Infra, and Business teams).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Ability to work in production support/release windows when required.</li> </ul> </div><div class="content-conclusion">Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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