Location Address: Hybrid - Downtown Toronto – 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 1 year total term & possibility conversion to FTE

Number of Positions: 1

Reason: Backfill

Typical Day in Role:

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

3) 5+ years' technical working experience in an Infrastructure Operations, DevOps or Cloud Engineering Operations type of role

4) 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

Best VS. Average Candidate:

**Best is someone who started as DevOps and progressed into a Senior Cloud Engineer with recent hands-on GCP experience;

Expanding on Must have #4: Preferred Development/Scripting languages: Python, HCL, Helm; Container-based technologies: Docker; Config management tools: Salt, Ansible; and CI/CD tools: Argo, Jenkins; Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

Candidate Review & Selection

1 round in person at Downtown Toronto – 1 hour panel interview – with HM, with 2-3 other team members – technical questions