Designs, builds, and maintains cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines for scalable, reliable applications. Responsibilities include cloud platform assessment, infrastructure automation, container orchestration, application deployment, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, security safeguards, testing, documentation, issue tracking, and technical reporting. The role requires extensive Linux, scripting, cloud, integration, testing, and DevOps tooling experience, with at least five years supporting cloud platforms and CI/CD initiatives.
Position: DevOps Engineer - Senior
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Job ID#: RQ00768
Duration: 6 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to support the
design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud-based environments and CI/CD
pipelines. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing,
deploying, securing, and optimizing cloud applications while ensuring high
availability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Qualifications and Experience
- University/College
degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- Certification
in Software Engineering or related discipline is considered an asset.
- Minimum
of 5 years of demonstrated experience supporting cloud platforms and CI/CD
pipeline initiatives.
- Extensive
experience across the application development lifecycle, including unit,
functional, integration, system, regression, penetration, performance, and
user acceptance testing.
- Strong
experience executing systems integration using Linux Shell scripting.
- Excellent
written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience
tracking problems and defects within large-scale projects.
- Ability
to work independently and collaboratively within team environments.
Technical Capabilities
- Experience
with leading cloud platforms such as AWS, OpenShift, or similar
technologies.
- Experience
maintaining complex Linux cloud environments, including CentOS and Ubuntu.
- Strong
proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Java, JavaScript,
and Node.js.
- Experience
with build and automation tools including Git, Ansible, CloudFormation,
ytt, and related CI/CD technologies.
- Experience
with application containerization and virtualization technologies such as
Docker and Kubernetes (K8S).
- Experience
with container orchestration for application deployment, scaling,
clustering, monitoring, and automation.
- Experience
integrating systems using APIs and other integration endpoints.
- Knowledge
of industry web, architecture, and security standards and best practices.
- Hands-on
experience with GitLab CI/CD.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess
frameworks, platforms, and technology stacks to support the development of
cloud-based solutions.
- Design,
build, and support cloud environments for deployment of digital products.
- Design,
build, develop, and administer CI/CD pipelines that enable continuous
development and deployment of modular cloud-based systems.
- Monitor
and assess cloud-hosted applications to ensure reliability, availability,
and optimal performance.
- Identify,
analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application
deployment issues.
- Create,
test, and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect
against unauthorized access.
Deliverables
- Prepare
execution plans, testing scripts, and technical design documentation.
- Build
and execute technical solutions and automation scripts.
- Analyze
results and create reports for management as required.
- Track
problems, defects, and issues throughout large-scale project initiatives.
- Create
knowledge base articles documenting procedures, solutions, and best
practices.
Work Arrangement
- Hybrid
work model.
- Minimum
of 3 days per week onsite in Toronto, Ontario.
About Symbiotic Digital.
Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that
solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do
for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve
customers in two ways, we provide:
- Digital
Experts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results
- Recruitment:
Find The Right People You Need
Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital
provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff
needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most
reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them
staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our
proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100%
Indigenous owned company.
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