Cloud DevOps Engineer

12-month contract

Vancouver, BC - hybrid

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 the ability to learn fast in a fast-paced environment
• Significant (7+ 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