DevOps Engineer

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You As a DevOps Engineer Will

• Collaborate with application developers and team members to architect solutions on cloud platform for application hosting.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and workflows to streamline application delivery and deployment.
• Analyze, debug, and triage Incident tickets, resolve production issues, including infrastructure failures, application performance bottlenecks, system latency, and IaaS service disruptions.
• Scale and optimize cloud infrastructure to support growth while ensuring high reliability, security, and compliance standards.

Is this the right role for you?

• Have a university degree in Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Have 6+ years of full-time software engineering industry-level experience.
• You are able to build strong trust with business stakeholders by taking ownership and driving new initiatives and projects to successful completion.
• You are proficient with at least one of the programming languages like Bash/Python/Ruby.
• Have working experience with at least one of the cloud platforms such as Azure/GCP/AWS.
• Solid DBA experience managing any of the databases like MySQL/MSSQL/MongoDB/Oracle.
• Mastery in query optimization, partitioning strategies, and database replication and deep understanding of distributed NoSQL systems and eventual consistency models.
• Can design highly scalable NoSQL architectures with custom partitioning, replication, and failover strategies.
• Experience implementing load balancing, caching (Redis, Memcached), and database sharding.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as code such as Terraform, and Ansible/AWS Cloud Formation.
• Hands-on with server administration and monitoring on Linux/Windows stack.
• Experienced in configuring enterprise-level cloud backup solutions and conducting periodic disaster recovery fire drills to ensure business continuity.
• Expertise in designing distributed systems with scalability, fault-tolerance, and high availability.
• Skilled in presenting technical ideas to leadership and clients, driving cross-team collaboration, and writing comprehensive documentation.

Nice To Have

• Experience working in Agile teams and understanding of Scrum/Kanban model of software delivery.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog/Splunk/Grafana.
• Exposure to Hashicorp Vault and Hashicorp Boundary.
• Beginner level certification in one of the cloud technologies (Azure/GCP/AWS).
• Work experience in full-stack development/data engineering/software testing.
• Knowledge of IaC management tools like Crossplane or ArgoCD.

NOTE: This is a hybrid role, for our Mississauga, Ontario EllisDon office

EllisDon is proud to provide this unique career opportunity that provides continuous learning, opportunity for growth, and a competitive compensation package within an environment that is committed to inclusion and respects diversity.

Go ahead and be yourself. We'll pay you for it
We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of any age, culture, subculture, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, race, size, mental or physical status, veteran status, religion, language, political opinion, working-style preference, family status, education, and socio-economic status. The EllisDon core values of Integrity and Mutual Respect welcomes everyone, at work and in the community, and our value of Mutual Accountability, means that we all have a role to play. As an EllisDon employee, this will ultimately be your commitment to Inclusive Diversity.

Accommodation for Applicants with disabilities will be made during the recruitment process when requested.

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