Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Calgary, AB (Hybrid)

Employment Contract opportunity

Experience: 10+ years

About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.

Job Description:

MISSION

As part of the integration of the technology stacks with the ones from the client, we are looking to harmonize our development practices so as to offer a unified developer experience. This starts by sharing common devOps practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Moving our code from on-premises bitbucket to product aligned mono-repos on GitHub
• Migrating our java builds tools from Maven to Gradle
• Harmonizing our JavaScript build processes
• Adopting a common artefact repository (JFrog Artifactory)
• Adopting a common CI toolchain based on GitHub Actions
• Gathering metrics so as to ensure the efficacity of our efforts
• Enhancing our Developer Experience within the department through the adoption of better tools, such as Backstage and others so that developers can become more productive
• Optimize our code hygiene efforts through the adoption of Moderne/Open Rewrite
• Help and enable our global community of developers to adopt the new toolchains.
• The candidate will interact with a diverse & global set of teams, including developers, business analysts, quality assurance, infrastructure, user communities, and senior management
• Work within an Agile team, participating in ceremonies related to the Agile framework

SKILLS REQUIRED

• 3-5 years experience of Java (or JavaScript) development
• 3-5 years experience of working on Linux based systems
• Scripting languages: Python, ksh
• Build System: Proficient with a build system such as Gradle/Maven or NPM (or both)
• Source Code Repository: Proficient with code versioning tools, Git, Bitbucket, GitHub
• CI tools: Proficient with Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions
• Must possess strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
• Willingness to occasionally wander into other areas (e.g., backend, other teams' codebase) and ship end-to-end solutions.
• Drive to learn, grow and "make things better than you found it".
• Self-motivated, highly organized, team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment with the ability to learn quickly and work independently.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Knowledgeable with SDLC processes.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Ability to gather metrics and make sense of them

Warm Regards,