DevOps Engineer

Position: DevOps Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#:RQ10730 

Duration:12 Months

Role Overview

The DevOps / Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and supporting secure, scalable cloud environments used to deliver modern digital products. This role focuses on cloud infrastructure, automation, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and operational reliability, ensuring platforms are resilient, observable, and compliant with industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support cloud environments to enable digital product delivery
  


• Monitor application and infrastructure performance to ensure high availability
  


• Implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and prevent unauthorized access
  


• Apply industry architectural, security, and web standards and best practices
  


• Support integration through APIs and automation tooling
  


• Maintain development and operational environments for modern web technologies
  

Must‑Have Qualifications

• Strong AWS infrastructure and multi‑account architecture experience
  


• Hands‑on Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code expertise
  


• Advanced Ansible automation experience
  


• OpenShift container platform administration
  


• CI/CD pipeline design and operations experience
  

Skills & Experience Requirements

Cloud Infrastructure & AWS (25%)

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront
  


• Architect multi‑account AWS environments using AWS Well‑Architected Framework principles
  


• Implement cost optimization strategies such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing
  


• Configure and maintain CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and organizational policies
  

Infrastructure as Code – Terraform (20%)

• Develop and maintain Terraform modules and configurations for cloud infrastructure
  


• Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state, access policies, and variables
  


• Enforce IaC standards, versioning, and documentation
  


• Implement drift detection and policy‑as‑code workflows
  


• Lead code reviews and mentor team members
  

Configuration Management – Ansible (15%)

• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections
  


• Manage inventories across dynamic cloud environments
  


• Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines
  


• Secure credentials using Ansible Vault
  


• Develop idempotent, testable automation
  

Container Platform – OpenShift (10%)

• Operate and administer managed OpenShift clusters on AWS
  


• Manage upgrades, scaling, access controls, and network policies
  


• Deploy workloads using Helm, Operators, and Kustomize
  


• Ensure compliance with security and hardening standards
  

CI/CD Pipelines (10%)

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications
  


• Implement GitOps workflows for declarative deployments
  


• Integrate security scanning and quality gates
  


• Promote shift‑left testing and pipeline‑as‑code standards
  

Security & Compliance (10%)

• Embed security controls across infrastructure and delivery pipelines
  


• Implement secrets management and least‑privilege access
  


• Support vulnerability management and remediation
  


• Participate in incident response and post‑incident reviews
  

Observability & Reliability (10%)

• Build monitoring and logging solutions using cloud‑native tools
  


• Define and track SLOs and SLIs
  


• Participate in on‑call support and root‑cause analysis
  


• Maintain runbooks and architectural decision records
  

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.)

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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enables us to deliver expert technical staff to solve complex business and IT challenges. IT leaders across Canada rely on our proven QMS – Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous‑owned company.

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