DevOps Specialist

Role Title: Senior DevOps Engineering Specialist

Hybrid - 3 days a week Tue, Wed & Thur from Toronto or London

Candidates must be eligible for Protected B clearance

Salary: CAD 90,000

Any specific tools/skillset:

Min 5+ years of multi-disciplinary experience in a large, complex organization

Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science and/or Software Engineering or equivalent experience

Ability to build and maintain collaborative stakeholder relationships across multiple geographies and business functions

Ability to effectively communicate high-level concepts and solutions with technology and business teams

You value simplicity and are unafraid to challenge technical constraints to utilize an iterative and agile approach

Strong knowledge of infrastructure solutions, specifically in relation to cloud programs, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, and cloud technologies

Kubernetes Expertise: Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and secure Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and optimal performance for containerized applications

Experience working with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

Extensive experience with AWS EKS and Service Mesh

Expertise with CI/CD tooling such as Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Vault etc..

Experience working with at least one of the major public cloud providers (Azure, GCP or AWS) and a willingness to continue to expand your knowledge

A self-starter with the ability to comfortably operate in ambiguity

Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor system performance, proactively identify issues, and implement measures for improvement to ensure system reliability and stability

Role profile description:

Reporting to the Product Owner, the DevOps Engineer is responsible for the monitoring, maintenance, and support of systems, services and tools, as well as deploying net-new capabilities aligned to Canada Life’s DevOps principles. The DevOps Engineer will leverage technical knowledge and experience across a variety of business units including, infrastructure, development, operations, and quality assurance, ensuring emerging trends and new technologies stay top of mind.

Ensure all solutions meet security and risk standards and comply with regulatory requirements as documented

Ensure all functional and non-functional requirements are met and measurable in all environments

Execute on the DevOps framework as defined by the Principal DevOps Engineer

Proactively identify areas of friction in current deployment processes and drive technical solution to remove impediments

Migrate existing services to new and existing digital stacks, while managing solutions by monitoring systems and events to avoid costly downtime

Ensure technology capabilities align with current and future business needs

Ensure alignment and adherence to enterprise technology, vendor management, and risk standards

Respond to critical and non-critical incidents based on priority and level of complexity

Work to validate and triage issues, and resolve where applicable

Manage ticket process from start to finish, interacting with other teams as necessary to identify and implement potential solutions.