Senior DevOps Engineer in Winnipeg

Ciklum is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Canada. We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role: As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experience of tomorrow. We are looking for a talented Senior DevOps Engineer to support our engineering work, with a strong focus on the underlying infrastructure that we need to get from source code to production, plus keep it happy once it's there. We need someone who understands software development and enjoys working with developers on all the things necessary to improving, deploying, monitoring, and operating production services.

Responsibilities:

• Build complex, highly available, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure solutions on Azure and in Kubernetes (AKS).
• Design, build, and maintain production-grade AKS clusters, including private cluster networking, node pool sizing and autoscaling, workload identity, ingress, certificate management, and cluster upgrade lifecycle.
• Own infrastructure as code end to end in Terraform: author and refactor reusable modules, manage per-environment workspaces and state, and drive changes through pull request, plan review, and apply.
• Design and implement advanced CI/CD pipelines ensuring quality, security, and efficiency, including container image build/publish and progressive promotion from lower environments to production.
• Establish comprehensive monitoring and observability strategies across cluster, application, and Azure platform services.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks, leading troubleshooting efforts for complex issues across compute, networking, identity, and data layers.
• Implement high-level security practices, integrating vulnerability scanning and threat modeling, and manage secrets through a centralized secrets store with identity-based access.
• Maintain and exercise multi-region high availability and disaster recovery, including failover and failback procedures for Kubernetes workloads and managed databases.
• Work with application engineering to cultivate operational standards.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps engineering role with significant Azure experience.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing large-scale Azure solutions.
• Hands-on experience running AKS in production, including private clusters, cluster upgrades, autoscaling, and incident response on live workloads.
• Advanced, production-level Terraform experience: module design, state and workspace management, and multi-environment/multi-subscription deployments.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and architect robust solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Deep knowledge of Azure services, architectures, and design patterns.
• Advanced skills in Terraform, or other IaC tools.
• Strong experience with pipeline-as-code (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and proficiency with one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, C#/.NET, Node.js).
• Extensive experience with Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, container registries, and microservices architectures.
• Expertise in configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.).
• In-depth knowledge of networking concepts, Azure virtual network and subnet design.
• Familiarity with Azure managed data services.
• Experience with Azure Monitor/Log Analytics and KQL.
• Experience designing and testing multi-region redundancy.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles.
• Exposure to GCP and GKE is a strong plus.

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment.
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise.
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events, Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility.
• Care: Healthcare, Basic Life Insurance, Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company’s Benefit Plans.

About us: At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress. Now expanding across Canada, we’re looking for talented professionals to strengthen our North American footprint. Join us to innovate at scale and deliver world-class solutions to global clients.