Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer in Toronto

About the job

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and support cloud environments to create digital products.
• Monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available.
• Create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access.

General Skills:

• Experience in one of the leading cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience in maintaining complex Linux cloud environments, like CentOS, Ubuntu, or CoreOS, to support modern web technologies: LAMP, MEAN, Drupal and Elasticsearch.
• Experience setting up development environments and mechanisms using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Maven and Jenkins or similar tools.
• Experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node.
• Experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet for continuous integration.
• Knowledge of container-based virtualization technology like Docker.
• Integration experience in building and using APIs.
• Experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards and best practices.
• Experience in mobile device management for various versions of cellular and tablets.

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• You are a seasoned expert in Azure among other cloud platforms.
• You have experience in production environments such as Kubernetes (AKS).
• You are familiar with container-based virtualization technology.
• Experience with microservice based architectures.
• You have knowledge of DevOps tools and techniques, and in-depth technical knowledge of system architectures, including technical, data, application and network architectures.
• You have experience implementing software engineering practices for full software development life cycles (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes, and testing.
• You have experience working independently with high-level direction to build and maintain complex Linux cloud environments, like CentOS, Ubuntu or CoreOS, to support modern web technologies.
• You have extensive knowledge and demonstrated experience in open source search and analytics engines like Elasticsearch (Setup, configuration, watcher and alerts).
• You have experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, and others for continuous integration.
• You have integration experience using and building APIs.
• You have worked with relational and non-relational databases like MySQL, MongoDB, and others.

Standards and Best Practices Skills:

• You have experience applying industry cloud and security standards and best practices to your work that can be adopted by others.
• You have designed, implemented and maintained DevOps continuous delivery pipelines to manage from build to deployment and cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as code practices.
• You have knowledge of common authentication technologies, security controls, and standard application security tools.
• You have experience securing environments using offensive and defensive approaches.
• You have shared best practices and tools with your peers across the organization.
• You can research industry best practices to support DevOps standards, and apply them to your work.

Communication and Collaboration Skills:

• You are a strong communicator who collaborates on your work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• You have strong leadership skills to support and guide team members.
• You have experience influencing others by persuasion rather than authority, making your case through excellent communication, speaking clearly to be easily understood, and persuasive writing skills.
• Your responsibilities include working closely with internal and external partners and team members.
• You are comfortable leading discussions and selling your ideas to technical and non-technical colleagues and senior management.

Project and Digital Expertise:

• You can articulate methods for build/buy decisions on project components, identify common IT risks and address them with contingency plans and back-out options.
• You can analyze designs and determine coding, programming and integration activities to identify issues and provide product solutions.
• You have worked on an established environment, balancing the need to address technical debt with new enhancements through continuous iterations.
• You are adept at navigating complex issues, handling partners and stakeholder interactions.
• You have worked with partners to establish relationships with their security, operations, and IT teams.
• You have experience providing production support for multiple cloud environments with a focus on quality, security, reliability and scalability.

Must haves:

• You are a seasoned expert in Azure among other cloud platforms.
• You have experience in production environments such as Kubernetes (AKS).