Dawn InfoTek Inc. is a professional IT consulting team that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms and government sectors. We have been dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consulting services and recruiting all levels of IT positions for our clients.

We are currently seeking competent individuals to fulfill the role of DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team for our client, one of the major banks.

Location Address: Hybrid/onsite - 4 days/week (set days TBD)

Subject to change: 3–4 days onsite may be required based on business needs

Contract Duration: 6 months

Typical Day in Role:

• Key accountabilities include development, management and maintenance of cloud platforms, services and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of common cloud functionality.

• Build and maintain developer-facing tools for interacting with various cloud platform technologies.

• Designs reusable, scalable, and secure service integration patterns for multi-tenant platforms.

• Advocate for developer needs in cloud architecture and product decisions.

• Own the design, development, and operation of integration patterns for services used across tenants

• Champion automation and self-service, reducing dependency on manual interventions.

• Act as a bridge between platform engineering and tenants, translating complex technical concepts into simple, usable workflows.

• Collaborate with the product team and other stakeholders to estimate and size initiatives.

• Mentor and coach other members of the cloud engineering team.

• Level 3 support responsibilities are required.

• Design, Implement and refactor code.

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

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

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

• Build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.

• Support application teams on the use of the platform including providing guidance on design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.

• Our teams are flexible and fast – you will be asked to provide peer review and quality control on a daily basis.

• Tech stack: Kubernetes, Docker, Go programming language, Java

• DevOps Engineer type of role

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 8+ years of relevant industry experience in DevOps and Cloud Platform Engineering

2) 3+ years’ recent experience with container orchestration tool: Kubernetes

3) 3+ years’ experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (i.e. Terraform, Helm, Kustomize).

4) 3+ years’ experience with CI/CD design and integration, preferably GitOps

5) 5+ years’ programming experience in modern programming languages: Go (preferred), Java, Python

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience with GCP cloud platform

2) Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability patterns in a multi-tenant environment

3) Experience with cloud application security concerns.

4) Experience working within financial institutions or regulated enterprise environments.

Soft Skills Required:

• Great communication skills

• Team player

• Cross-functional and collaboration skills

• Ability to translate complex technical terms into simple easy to digest terms for different audiences

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline.