Job Description

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Mississauga, ON (Hybrid- 2 days per week)

Job Duration: Long Term

Description:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will actively interface with software developers, product managers, test engineers and administrators on projects to design and develop the build, release, and deploy toolchain for DevOps while providing on-call support. You should be able to identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly and effectively, sometimes under pressure.

Responsibilities include capacity planning, high availability engineering, performance tuning, and automation/tools development. You should have strong experience managing infrastructure through multiple product releases, and have a passion for reliability and security. Excellent communication skills and teamwork is a must!

Responsibilities:

• Develop the build, release, and deploy toolchain for DevOps
• Setup, manage and maintain parity across development, staging and production application environments in cloud infrastructure
• Prototype and develop cloud native POC solutions for application needs
• Implement monitoring infrastructure development
• Provide on-call support for production operations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Science, Engineering or a related field, and a minimum of 6+ years of experience in Software Reliability Engineering/Systems Engineering/DevOps role is required; or equivalent combination of education and experience to perform at this level
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, Shell scripting and internals (Ubuntu preferred)
• Experience in creating software to automate production systems with one of the following languages: python, java, go, etc. Python experience is preferred
• Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, API Gateway, RDS, VPC peering, Route53, S3, Autoscaling)
• Strong experience with container technology including Kubernetes, AWS EKS, ECS, Fargate , Helm Charts and Docker
• Experience with provisioning infrastructure through IAC (preferably Terraform) and cloud automation principles
• Good understanding of networking and related protocols; must have a strong understanding of fundamentals ( DNS, TLS)
• Experience with on-prem installation of operating systems, iLo configuration, network troubleshooting, RAID configurations etc.
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration (eg: GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Demonstrate experience troubleshooting problems and working with a team to resolve web scale production issues
• Strong experience with configuration management, monitoring and systems tools (ie: Vault, Packer, Ansible, CloudWatch, Synthetic Canaries, Datadog etc.).
• Good understanding of Mysql, Postgres databases
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies (CloudFlare, Okta etc)
• Experience working with Security and Compliance tools such as Tenable and Dome9.
• Drive to build robust automated logging, monitoring, and alerting systems with tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus & Grafana.
• Exposure to messaging pub/sub systems (eg: RabbitMQ, Active-MQ, etc.)
• Troubleshooting critical development systems (Build failures, critical web services)
• Experience with Release Management processes and controls

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Linux package management tools eg: rpm and deb.
• Exposure to Security technologies related to perimeter security, web application scanning, firewall systems and cloud security & governance.
• Familiarity with NoSQL technologies eg: Redis, Dynamodb

Must Have Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, API Gateway, RDS, Route53, S3, Autoscaling).
• Strong experience with container technology including Kubernetes, AWS EKS, ECS, Fargate ,Helm Charts and Docker
• Experience with provisioning infrastructure through IAC (preferably Terraform) and cloud automation principles

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