Cloud DevOps Engineer

Cloud DevOps Engineer

The initial term will run til Dec 31st, then be reviewed for extensions. Possibly these could flip to permanent down the road as well.

40 hrs/week, 5x/week onsite

Vancouver, BC

What You’ll Do

• Help lead initiatives for upgrading and scaling our systems to improve availability, reliability, and performance
• Work with stakeholders across the business to balance and accommodate competing objectives
• Directly engage with internal & external customers to evolve, understand & improve their resiliency
• Mentor and develop junior engineers, growing their knowledge, skill-set and capability
• Use the latest industry standard tools and best practices to meet the evolving needs of our internal engineers, developers and external customers
• Manage Cloud provider infrastructure, system deployments & product release operations
• You will use your knowledge of DevOps and infrastructure to promote proper engineering practice, automation strategy, and other advanced concepts across products
• Work on the continuing reduction of human intervention in operations tasks and process automation
• Participate in an on-call rotation, using a follow-the-sun model

What You’ll Bring

• A strong combination of technical experience, hands-on keyboard capability, technical leadership experience, and ability to learn fast in a fast paced environment
• Significant (5+ years) of design & implementation experience in multi-cloud environments (GCP & AWS)
• Experience with architecture and operation of container technologies such as Kubernetes, service-mesh
• Expertise with Linux system administration, networking and security, ideally in a Cloud environment
• Hands-on experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm
• Expertise with modern CI/CD systems such as ArgoCD, Circle-CI, Github Actions
• Experience with microservices architectures and debugging/investigation techniques.
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring and troubleshooting skills.
• Scripting knowledge – proficiency with Python, Go, Java, JS or similar languages
• Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

Nice to have

• Building & deploying pipelines for data flow, processing & storage
• Knowledge of data engineering components and data architecture best practices
• Experience with relational & No-SQL database technologies