JB#7899-DevOPS/Cloud Engineer – Senior

Website EmpITsolutions EmpITsolutions

Job Description:  DevOPS/Cloud Engineer – Senior

Submission Closing: Sept 19 11am

Start Date: 2024-10-07

End Date: 2025-03-31

Extension # of Days: 167.00

Max Extension Term(s): 1 Time

Assignment type: Hybrid

Location:Toronto, Ontario

Job Title: DevOPS/Cloud Engineer

Description

The Government Services Integration Cluster is looking for a senior Cloud engineer for a large scale , custom built, cloud system moving to operations with major releases and implementations over the next few years. This role will provide hand on cloud design, build, administration and optimization for multiple development teams sharing infrastructure and code. The role will provide infrastructure expertise on projects which will help clients achieve efficiencies in delivery of programs/services, expedite business processes and achieve business goals/objectives. The resource will support development teams in analysing cloud environment requirements, architecting, designing,implementing, automating and deploying enterprise solutions that conform to standards. They will build, administer and optimise CICD pipelines, branching and release strategies, infrastructure and work with multiple teams including release management and operations to build sustainable models. The resource will work heavily with Azure services including AKS.

They will identify re-use opportunities, lead development of reusable services/components and ensure that they are effectively implemented. To investigate and assess new technologies and tools and to develop DevOps guidelines/best practices in a areas of design, build and support.

The role will also provide leadership and guidance on product teams and ensure compliance to cloud architecture, security and infrastructure stability in an Agile and DevOps environment. To mentor less experienced staff in new technologies, build tools, automation, scripting, databases, container-based virtualization tech, processes and handling production issues. This role will investigate technical problems, provide recommendations to management and lead solution implementations.

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

  • 5+ years experience in Cloud engineer.
  • have expert experience in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  • hands on experience with terraform and IaC development

Nice to have:

  • have prior Developer experience

Price: 30 %

Technical Knowledge and Skills: 30%

  • You are a seasoned expert in Azure among other cloud platforms.
  • You have expert experience in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  • You are familiar with container-based virtualization technology.
  • Extensive, hands on experience with terraform and IaC development
  • Experience with microservice based architectures
  • Experience with Azure SQL and data tools
  • 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 fluency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, C#, Java, React, JavaScript, Node, and others.
  • 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: 25%

  • 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: 15%

  • 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.

Supplier Comments

Closing Date: 2024-09-19, 11:00 a.m. EST

Max of submission : 1 (one)

NOTE: Hybrid – 3 business days in the office.