DevOPS/Cloud Engineer

Job Description

DevOPS/Cloud Engineer
Hybrid, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contract

Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Technical Knowledge
·        10+ years of experience in systems, data communications and telecommunication technology including experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux V7+, UNIX Solaris V10 and Mainframe IMS Connect, system software and System tools
·        Extensive experience in WebLogic V12, WebSphere V9, Informatica V10 configuration, customization, upgrading, and patching
·        Extensive experience in DevOps toolsets in Azure Cloud, including but not limited to, Docker, Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Azure DevOps Pipelines, OpenShift
·        Working knowledge and experience in git, including branching and merging strategies (e.g. git-flow), collaborating via pull request and practicing GitOps
·        Working knowledge and experience of designing and implementing infrastructure as code build automation using Terraform and immutable infrastructure with Ansible and Packer
·        Working knowledge and experience of implementing instances/applications performance tuning, storage/capacity management, DB migration/upgrade, Backup/Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies
·        Working knowledge and experience of clustering Load Balancers, and Firewall configuration and accomplishing the same in Azure cloud
·        Experience with technologies (J2EE, Java) and web technologies (Node.js, Azure Functions, Serverless, Pub/Sub event driven systems, Azure App Gateway)
·        Mid-Tier refresh initiatives experience with technologies (Docker, Ansible, Packer, Terraform) in Azure cloud environment

Support & Troubleshooting
·        High skilled problem solving, reasoning and trouble-shooting experience to provide advice and resolve data recovery issues in a multi-platform environment
·        Support for pre-production and production systems on 7/24/365 basis for application and middleware
·        Experience conducting system monitoring and performance and data integrity in accordance with ITIL standards
Operations
·        Experience on supporting enterprise business and infrastructure projects
·        Experience in Incident Management, Change Management
Ability to perform performance analysis
·        Experience in resource usage tracking, analysis
·        Ability to perform log searches for problem solving audit and performance checking
·        Experience in emergency problem resolution
·        Ability to provide ad-hoc reporting
Interpersonal & Communication Skills
·        Strong oral and written communications and interpersonal skills with experience making presentation, liaising with staff to resolve issues, and working as part of a technical multi-disciplinary team
·        Based on management’s request, the ability to provide support to internal and external clients on a 7/24 basis