The DevOps Engineer will optimize cloud computing solutions, enhance infrastructure performance, ensure high availability, and manage CI/CD tools while collaborating with development teams.
About ShyftLabs
At ShyftLabs, we live and breathe data. Since 2020, we’ve been helping Fortune 500 companies unlock growth through innovative digital solutions that drive real business impact. With teams across Canada, the U.S., and India, we’re growing quickly and looking for curious, motivated individuals who are excited to learn, build, and solve meaningful problems with technology.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a passionate and detail-oriented DevOps Engineer to partner with our development teams and accelerate the deployment, testing, and release of applications. This role involves automating and optimizing our infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance across various environments.
What you'll be doing
- Responsible for the development, optimization and delivery of cloud computing solutions, hosted services and underlying software infrastructure to optimize service delivery across production, QA and development environments through the development lifecycle
- Supports and troubleshoots scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup and restores of different environments
- Evaluates new tools, technologies and processes to improve speed, efficiency and scalability.
- Monitor server and application performance using one or more of Application Performance Monitoring tools: NewRelic, CloudWatch and Sumologic
- Partners with application developers on the seamless deployment of software
- Responsible for optimizing and enhancing infrastructure performance
- Manage the installation and configuration of solutions
- Oversee routine maintenance procedures and diagnostic testing.
- Document processes and monitoring performance metrics.
- Implement best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional experience in DevOps
- BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related IT field
- Experience in Information Security and Networking
- Background in Linux (RHEL) based infrastructure
- Comfortable with command line tools (Bash, Powershell)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (such as GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps – GitLab CI/CD preferred)
- Experience with building dashboards, configuring and integrating with both infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting tools (such as AWS CloudWatch, NewRelic)
- Extensive hands-on proficiency in Infrastructure configuration management and IAC methodologies and technologies (such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Chief, Puppet – Terraform preferred)
- Proficiency in common DevOps development languages (such as Python, Node – Python preferred)
- Experience on Automation platforms(Ansible)
- Experience with serverless frameworks (Zappa, Serverless, Chalice)
- Experience with building new Cloud systems that completely support microservice architectures (API Gateway, serverless compute, Redis, NoSQL DBs) as well as legacy client/server architecture (EC2, Docker, Load Balancers, databases).
- AWS experience preferred, and candidates with AWS Developer or AWS Solution Architect Associate certifications strongly preferred.
- Experience with Java build, packaging and dependency management and storage systems (such as Maven, Gradle, Artifactory)
- Experience with integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (such as Cucumber, Robot, Selenium, JMeter)
- Experience with creating alerts, dashboards, canned queries – as well as configuring and integrating log aggregation (such as SumoLogic, Splunk, ELK, syslog – SumoLogic preferred)
- Experience with the containers and container management systems (such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate/ECS)
- Experience with the use of artifacts.
- Experience with Deployment strategies
- Experience with MS SQL, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless administration / optimization
- Familiar with Agile software development lifecycles
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations for high availability and uptime
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