Senior DevOps Engineer Cloud & Microservices

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 5years

Posted on: 1 hour ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer - cloud Microservices

Location: Toronto ON

Skills: Digital: Cloud DevOps Microservices

Experience Required: 810 years

Role Description

Hands on Cloud DevOps / Microservices Engineer to design build and operate secure scalable and observable cloud native platforms and services. Youll own CI/CD container orchestration infrastructure as code and runtime reliability for microservices partnering closely with software engineering security SRE and product teams to deliver high quality releases with speed and confidence.

Design provision and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure) including compute networking storage IAM and managed services.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform CloudFormation ARM Bicep; enforce GitOps practices (pull requests code reviews change history).
Build multi-account subscription landing zones network segmentation and controls for cost security and compliance.
Optimize cloud spend with right sizing autoscaling reserved savings plans and cost governance dashboards.
Build robust CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI) with automated build test security scans artifact management and progressive delivery (blue-green canary).
Standardize pipelines as reusable templates implement trunk-based development and robust branching strategies.
Enable automated rollbacks and deployment health checks; integrate quality gates (unit integration contract tests).
Containerize services (Docker) and operate them on Kubernetes (AKS EKS GKE) or OpenShift.
Manage service discovery ingress service mesh (Istio Linkerd) config and secret management HPA pod disruption budgets and node pools.
Implement microservices best practices (circuit breakers retries/backoff idempotency API gateways rate limits event driven patterns such as SQS SNS Kafka Event Hub PubSub).
Establish end-to-end observability: metrics logs traces with Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Azure Monitor ELK Splunk OpenTelemetry.
Define and track SLI SLO SLA; create actionable alerts and on-call runbooks; participate in incident response and post-incident reviews (RCA).
Conduct load performance testing; remediate hotspots at infrastructure container and application layers.

Required Skills:

Experience (Years): 4-6 Essential Skills: Work with project teams throughout the organization to design implement and manage CDN infrastructure using Akamai to ensure high availability performance and scalability for customer facing applications and business processes. Handle multiple priorities and assignments with excellence and precision. Be a part of a 24/7/365 organization (some after hours support is expected as part of normal on-call rotation). Directly support line of business development teams provide guidance to them on implementation and changes for customer facing applications Develop and maintain security protocols and measures to protect CDN infrastructure from cyber threats. Monitor and analyze network performance identifying and resolving issues to optimize content delivery of critical applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate Akamai CDN solutions with existing systems and applications. Collaborate with information security teams to implement DDoS protection strategies and other security measures in the CDN. Provide technical support and guidance to clients and internal teams regarding CDN and security best practices. Work closely with vendor and professional service teams on delivery related activities and strategy. Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field. OR similar work experience. Strong understanding of network protocols (HTTP/HTTPS DNS TCP/IP). Proven experience as a CDN Engineer or similar role with a strong focus on -depth knowledge of Content Delivery Network technologies including caching load balancing and content optimization. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Strong communication and teamwork abilities. Experience supporting 24/7/365 customer facing applications at enterprise scale. Awareness and experience with cybersecurity tools and practices such as firewalls intrusion detection/prevention systems and encryption. Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g. Python Bash) a plus. Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP CEH) are a plus but not required.