DevOps Engineer

DevOps and Cloud Engineer

Location Address: Hybrid - 44 King Street W 8th Floor – coming in on an ad hoc basis for meetings (1 every 2 weeks on Wednesdays) – strong preference for candidates in the GTA

Contract Duration: 4+ months

Possibility of extension for 1year total term & possibility conversion to FTE

Typical Day in Role:

• As a member of the Cloud Storage team, this individual is responsible for supporting the banks CAP initiative with respect to Google Cloud Storage solutions. This individual will support and create IaC code, automation, policies and patterns around Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV), Google Cloud Storage buckets (GCS) and persistent disks.

• Key accountabilities include design, development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of public cloud offerings

• Technical ownership/leadership of a component of a larger product.

• Designing, implementing, and refactoring code (typically Go, Python).

• Ensuring software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability, security, and compliance requirements.

• Working with other lead engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping and estimating tasks.

• Working with application teams for successful onboarding onto the Platform

• Participating in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.

• Provide mentorship, peer review and code review

• Lead a product/service, and define functions or features for cloud platforms, lead the work of 4+ engineers

• Be able to build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.

• Day: stand-up/daily scrum with team in Agile framework, 2-week sprint periods; tracking work in Kanban; work on different tasks and provide updates; not always deploying at end of every sprint but working towards tasks set on roadmap

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 8+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Cloud Environments such as GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.

2) 3+ years' Terraform coding experience

3) 1-2 years of hands-on cloud operations and administration experience with GCP

4) 5+ years’ technical working experience in an Infrastructure Operations, DevOps or Cloud Engineering Operations type of role

5) 5+ years’ hands-on technical working experience with development/scripting languages, container-based technologies, config management tools, container-based technologies, CI/CD tools, and Infrastructure as Code

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Unix administration skills

2) DevOps experience

3) GCNV experience

4) GCS experience

5) Persistent Storage solutions experience