Position: Senior DevOps Engineering Specialist

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)

Mode of Hire: Contract

Note : Must be eligible for Protected B clearance

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