Senior DevOPS Cloud Engineer in Toronto

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, Drupal and Elasticsearch / Elasticloud.
• 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, etc.
• Experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc. for continuous integration.
• Knowledge of container-based virtualization technology like Docker or Kubernetes.
• 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.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Cloud Infrastructure & AWS - 25% Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront. Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles. Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing. Implement and maintain CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Organizations SCPs.
• Infrastructure as Code — Terraform/Terraform Cloud - 20% Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for all cloud infrastructure. Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, variable sets, and team access policies. Enforce IaC standards including module versioning, input/output conventions, and documentation. Implement drift detection and remediation workflows using Terraform Cloud run tasks and policy-as-code (Sentinel or OPA). Lead Terraform code review processes and mentor junior team members on best practices.
• Configuration Management — Ansible - 15% Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement. Manage Ansible inventories across dynamic cloud environments using AWS dynamic inventory plugins. Integrate Ansible automation with CI/CD pipelines for repeatable and auditable deployments. Use Ansible Vault for secrets management and always ensure secure handling of credentials. Develop idempotent, well-tested automation that reduces manual toil and configuration drift.
• Container Platform — OpenShift ROSA - 10% Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management. Define and enforce OpenShift RBAC, NetworkPolicies and SecurityContextConstraints (SCCs). Manage Operators, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays for workload deployment on ROSA. Ensure cluster hardening against CIS benchmarks and organizational security policies.
• CI/CD Pipelines - 10% Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Service) for infrastructure and application delivery. Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for declarative, auditable deployments to OpenShift ROSA. Integrate security scanning tooling (SAST, container scanning, dependency auditing) into pipeline gates. Champion shift-left testing principles, ensuring infrastructure changes are validated before promotion to production. Maintain pipeline-as-code standards with versioned, peer-reviewed pipeline definitions.
• Security & Compliance - 10% Serve as a key contributor to the team's security posture, embedding security controls throughout the infrastructure and CI/CD lifecycle. Implement secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager) and enforce least-privilege access. Support vulnerability management processes by triaging findings from infrastructure and container scanning tools. Participate in incident response and post-mortem processes, ensuring remediation actions are tracked and resolved.
• Observability & Reliability - 10% Build and maintain end-to-end observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch. Define and track SLOs and SLIs for critical performance metrics.