Career

IBM (Early Career)

Orjinta Nnaemeka Orji launched his career at IBM, serving as a Technical Post-Sales Representative where he managed mission-critical accounts and delivered advanced IT solutions to Fortune 1000 clients. His exceptional performance and strategic insight led to rapid advancement into leadership roles.

Kyndryl Leadership

Today, Orjinta Nnaemeka Orji is the Director of Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture at Kyndryl Security & Resiliency Practice, where he leads a high-performing team in the design and deployment of cutting-edge cloud and cybersecurity solutions. His work centers on leveraging AI-powered threat intelligence and building resilient digital ecosystems that safeguard businesses across diverse sectors.

Orjinta Orji is Kyndryl’s go-to authority for cyber incident recovery and resiliency engineering, known for converting complex recovery risk into production-ready, repeatable, and auditable recovery systems trusted by executives, auditors, and delivery teams. He serves as a trusted advisor to customers and partners, translating regulatory and resilience requirements into implementable architectures, automation patterns, and evidence-driven practices. Internally, he shapes Kyndryl’s resiliency technical direction through reusable assets and enablement. He also advances Kyndryl’s market credibility, including recognition as an SAP CIR AI Champion, driving responsible AI and governance innovation in cyber recovery services.

Scope of Recent Assignments

High Value Reusable Assets
Orjinta created 10+ assets to eliminate delivery variance in cyber recovery (design choices, automation quality, and audit evidence), so S&R teams can replicate outcomes quickly and defensibly across accounts. The following are some examples:

• A CIR with Dell Reference Architecture that standardizes immutable vault design and decision points.
• A KRO Evidence Model/Test Harness that automates the generation of audit evidence.
• An AAP IRE/Recovery playbooks that deliver repeatable recovery execution.
• A Clean-Room Validation Kit that enforces “restore + prove clean” before reintegration.

Primary Project or Theme

Over the past five years, Orjinta Orji has delivered $300M+ in S&R revenue by transforming cyber recovery from a specialist function into a repeatable, evidence-driven system for highly regulated enterprises. He defined a reusable recovery doctrine built on four pillars: immutable integrity, progressive isolation to limit blast radius, automation for deterministic outcomes, and ITSM-embedded governance with audit-ready evidence at every control gate. The result is scalable, repeatable, and auditable recovery delivered as reusable blueprints.

He designed and delivered a Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Cyber Vault (WORM/Retention Lock, governed air gap, encryption, hardened privileged access), integrated CyberSense analytics to deterministically identify last-known-good restore points, and industrialized execution via KRO orchestration, improving stability and customer advocacy (NPS 4→9).

He authored the first Cyber Recovery Framework and built the first operational Isolated Recovery Environment, combining physical segregation, phase-aware networking, and automated recovery workflows. Using Ansible/GitOps and Cisco ACI micro-segmentation, he automated Isolation → Restoration → OS/Security Validation, generated structured audit evidence in ServiceNow, and implemented clean toolchain isolation to prevent cross-contamination.

Principal Role

Orjinta will define and govern enterprise Cyber Vault and Isolated Recovery Environment architectures, including orchestration and evidence models, while driving cross-practice technical alignment across resiliency, security, cloud, network, and storage. He will serve as the technical lead on strategic pursuits, translating customer risk and regulatory requirements into outcome-based recovery designs. The role scales impact through industrializing reusable assets and enabling consistent global delivery, while mentoring senior architects. Success is measured through validated recovery outcomes (RTO/RPO improvement with audit ready evidence), revenue influence in deals, and increased technical maturity through repeatable, enterprise-wide practices.

Strategic AI Advisory Board

As an Advisory Board Member for the Strategic AI Program at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Orjinta Nnaemeka Orji plays a pivotal role in fostering a supportive and inclusive learning environment that encourages the personal and professional growth of our students. [View Advisory Board Profile]

Memberships

• MNSE: Member Nigerian Society of Engineers
• FNSE: Fellow Nigerian Society of Engineers
• COREN: Council for regulation of Engineering in Nigeria
• Fellow COREN: Fellow Council for regulation of Engineering in Nigeria