Senior DevOps Engineer - Toronto, Canada - GTT, LLC

Description

Senior DevOps Engineer

• Contract Duration 12 Months

Job Overview:

• Our client is seeking a consultant Cloud/DevOps Engineer to join the team for designing and setting up application hosting and integration services on Azure and AWS.
• Our client is responsible for IT project management, delivery, and implementation of technologies.
• The Shared Utility Service (SUS) environment provides a scalable and secure hybrid cloud IT infrastructure to meet the application hosting needs and by extension, the program areas.
• The environment presently hosts approximately 180 internal and public-facing government applications, both traditional and cloud-native.

Deliverables:

• Senior DevOps Engineer supports the design and implementation of the Shared Utility Service (SUS) platform on public cloud IaaS.
• Creating and updating service templates used for provisioning cloud resources and installing software required for running the business applications.
• Setting up the DevSecOps pipeline for the build and deployment of ministry applications across various runtime environments.
• Setting up, configuring, and maintaining common platform components such as logging, auditing, monitoring, alerting, vulnerability detection, etc.
• Support the operations team in troubleshooting application issues related to the platform components.

Must Haves:

• 2+ years' experience on OpenShift or Azure Cloud.
• 2+ years' experience in DevSecOps.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and DevOps tools.

Nice to Have:

• Candidates with cloud architecture certification on Azure or AWS.
• Previous Public Sector Experience is an asset.

General Coordination and Communication - 20%

• Experience with coordinating initiatives with both technical and business stakeholders
• Experience with planning and implementation of changes
• Experience creating and maintaining documentation for operational procedures

Cloud Architecture - 30%

• 3+ years of hands-on experience deploying and optimizing applications on the public cloud. Experience working on private cloud will be a plus.
• Experience in building Terraform templates and Ansible playbooks is a must-have.
• Extensive knowledge of the cloud architecture and costing model is expected. Candidates with cloud architecture certification on Azure or AWS will be preferred. Experience on Kubernetes-based cloud platforms (such as OpenShift) is highly desirable.

N-tier application hosting - 20%

• Multiple years of experience in traditional n-tier application architecture and technologies
• 2+ years of working experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• 2+ years of working experience with IBM WebSphere/Liberty/NDM
• 2+ years of technical working experience in supporting application/web servers
• Experience with Managed File Transfer systems or FTP/SFTP systems will be an asset
• Development experience or exposure to the DataPower gateway will be an asset
• Development experience with Informatica, IBM MQ, and IBM ACE will be an asset
• General exposure to network topologies (firewalls, load balancers, DNS)

DevSecOps - 25%

• 2+ years of working experience with DevSecOps tools for building and deploying traditional as well as containerized workloads
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus, Urban Code Deploy, Urban Code Velocity, etc. is desirable
• Experience setting up SAST, DAST, and Container Vulnerability Scanning tools and associated mitigation processes is highly desirable

Public Sector Experience - 5%

• Experience working within the OPS, BPS, or other government would be preferred

• Hybrid role- 3-days per week onsite required
• A hybrid position expects a successful candidate to work from the office three days per week