DevOps Engineer (Cloud Operations & Network)

Why you’ll love working here:

• high-performance, people-focused culture

• our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves

• learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth

• membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security

• competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, parental leave top-up, and a health spending account).

• optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%

• yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars

• the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers

Job Summary:

The IT4Investments team is looking for a DevOps engineer to programmatically build automation for product and server deployments in cloud environments. An ideal candidate will have an IT operations background coupled with development experience to enable consistent and repeatable deployment of infrastructure. We are looking for a highly motivated and innovative thinker to advance cloud migration, automation, and development pipelines. If you are looking to join a fast-growing, respected and team-oriented pension plan, look no further. Send us your application now!

What you will do:

• Work as member of a highly agile cross-functional team while collaborating with various customers and stakeholders from business and development teams.

• Interface with internal business partners to gather requirements, design and implement solutions, manage technical operations, triage and fix operational issues.

• Architect, deploy, monitor, and administer applications and underlying services on Amazon AWS.

• Design and implement high availability of products with replication and recovery in accordance with business requirements.

• Develop and maintain build automation and deployment in cloud platforms with scripts/code.

• Work closely with application development teams to build and support continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

• Lead technology initiatives that drive cloud migration in a secure and reliable manner.

• Build tools and automation that eliminate repetitive tasks.

• Design, implement, configure and manage system monitoring solutions that alert teams to problems.

• Design monitoring services for systems and servers with a goal of minimizing down time.

• Define a triage and escalation process for system availability.

• Improve system optimization through measurement and reporting of system performance.

• Support developers with troubleshooting performance issues and tuning for optimization.

• Provide guidance and knowledge to members of development teams and take an integral role in continuous improvements, innovation, and knowledge sharing across teams.

What you bring: ​

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years of experience in IT Operations and/or Software Development

• Deep understanding of technological concepts such as IT architecture, cloud technologies, applications, network infrastructure, and security is strongly preferred

• High enthusiasm with a sense of urgency to get things done

• Experienced in industry best practices of DevOps engineering and software development

• Knowledge and experience with CI/CD and IT automation tools and practices (e.g. Microsoft VSTS, Ansible, Artifactory etc.)

• Expertise in scripting such as Python, PowerShell etc.

• Experience with container (such as Docker) and container orchestration system (such as Kubernetes)

• Experience with Agile software development including Scrum or Kanban is strongly preferred.

• Solid operations experience in Windows and Linux operating systems

• In-depth, hands on experience with AWS

• Familiar with monitoring tools (such as Splunk, DataDog, CLoudCheckr, etc.)

The actual base salary offered to the successful candidate may vary based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, individual's expertise and level of experience applicable to the role they are being offered.  

This role is eligible to participate in discretionary incentive plan(s), subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan text.