Hybrid DevOps Engineering Specialist, Azure

at Canada Life

• Job title: DevOps Engineering Specialist, Azure
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: CA$71,800 - CA$110,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, Canada

About the role

• DevOps Engineering Specialist responsible for system monitoring and support at Canada Life. Collaborating across business units to implement DevOps principles and migrate services.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all solutions meet security and risk standards and comply with regulatory requirements as documented
• Ensure all functional and non-functional requirements are met and measurable in all environments
• Execute on the DevOps framework as defined by the Principal DevOps Engineering Specialist
• Proactively identify areas of friction in current deployment processes and drive technical solution to remove impediments
• Migrate existing services to new and existing digital stacks, while managing solutions by monitoring systems and events to avoid costly downtime
• Ensure technology capabilities align with current and future business needs
• Ensure alignment and adherence to enterprise technology, vendor management, and risk standards
• Respond to critical and non-critical incidents based on priority and level of complexity
• Work to validate and triage issues, and resolve where applicable
• Manage ticket process from start to finish, interacting with other teams as necessary to identify and implement potential solutions

Requirements

• 2+ years of multi-disciplinary experience in a large, complex organization
• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science and/or Software Engineering or equivalent experience
• Ability to build and maintain collaborative stakeholder relationships across multiple geographies and business functions
• Ability to effectively communicate high-level concepts and solutions with technology and business teams
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure solutions, specifically in relation to cloud programs, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, and cloud technologies
• Knowledge of cloud network topologies and technologies
• Experience working with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Expertise with CI/CD tooling such as Git, GitLab, Nexus, Vault etc.
• Experience working with Azure and at least one of AWS or GCP with a willingness to continue to expand your knowledge
• A self-starter with the ability to comfortably operate in ambiguity.

Benefits

• health insurance
• retirement plans
• paid time off
• flexible work arrangements
• professional development
• bonuses