Job Title: Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Work Model: Onsite
Duration: 12 months
Extension: 1 Time
Security Clearance: CRJMC
Must Haves
- Extensive experience working with container and non-container workloads
- Extensive experience working with Designing and building Terraform/IAC and ansible playbooks.
- Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront.
- Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing.
- Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for all cloud infrastructure.
- Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
- Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Service) for infrastructure and application delivery.
Description / Responsibilities / Skills
Description
- Support and operate production AWS-hosted workloads.
- Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Investigate and unblock stalled technical initiatives.
- Help reduce operational toil through automation and process improvement.
- Evaluate modernization opportunities and contribute to architectural decisions.
- Work closely with engineering and security teams to improve platform reliability and security.
Deliverables
- Design, build and support cloud environments to create digital products
- Monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available
- Create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access
Experience & Skill Set Requirements
Cloud Infrastructure & AWS - 25%
- Implement and maintain CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Organizations SCPs.
Infrastructure as Code - Terraform/Terraform Cloud - 20%
- Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, variable sets, and team access policies.
- Enforce IaC standards including module versioning, input/output conventions, and documentation.
- Implement drift detection and remediation workflows using Terraform Cloud run tasks and policy-as-code (Sentinel or OPA).
- Lead Terraform code review processes and mentor junior team members on best practices.
Configuration Management - Ansible - 15%
- Manage Ansible inventories across dynamic cloud environments using AWS dynamic inventory plugins.
- Integrate Ansible automation with CI/CD pipelines for repeatable and auditable deployments.
- Use Ansible Vault for secrets management and always ensure secure handling of credentials.
- Develop idempotent, well-tested automation that reduces manual toil and configuration drift.
Container Platform - OpenShift ROSA - 10%
- Define and enforce OpenShift RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SecurityContextConstraints (SCCs).
- Manage Operators, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays for workload deployment on ROSA.
- Ensure cluster hardening against CIS benchmarks and organizational security policies.
CI/CD Pipelines - 10%
- Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for declarative, auditable deployments to OpenShift ROSA.
- Integrate security scanning tooling (SAST, container scanning, dependency auditing) into pipeline gates.
- Champion shift-left testing principles, ensuring infrastructure changes are validated before promotion to production.
- Maintain pipeline-as-code standards with versioned, peer-reviewed pipeline definitions.
Security & Compliance - 10%
- Serve as a key contributor to the team's security posture, embedding security controls throughout the infrastructure and CI/CD lifecycle.
- Implement secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager) and enforce least-privilege access.
- Support vulnerability management processes by triaging findings from infrastructure and container scanning tools.
- Participate in incident response and post-mortem processes, ensuring remediation actions are tracked and resolved.
Observability & Reliability - 10%
- Build and maintain end-to-end observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch.
- Define and track SLOs and SLIs for critical platform services and workloads.
- Lead on-call incident response for platform-level issues, conducting RCAs and driving permanent fixes.
- Produce and maintain runbooks and architectural decision records (ADRs).
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