DevOps Engineer at Alliance Search partners
About the Job
DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote - Anywhere in Canada
Salary: Open
Start Date: Early September
Perks
• 3 weeks vacation. No blackout dates. Take it when you need it.
• Medical and dental group benefits plan
• Work with a great group of people who are passionate about their work
Our Client is a well-established company with a Cloud accounting application with thousands of users. We have an easy to use and well respected web based accounting / business expense application and an award winning iOS app.
We are a small team based in Vancouver, BC with a hybrid working environment of collaborating virtually and working together in our downtown Vancouver office. We’re too small for departments and everyone works together to deliver on our goals. We pride ourselves on being able to accomplish big things with a small team, and are looking for individuals who are keen to make a real impact in their next role. You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to design and code modules for Infrastructure, applications and processes.
Scope of Role:
This role will be responsible for working with our Outsource team, to bring the DevOps function back in-house. In parallel, the environment will be migrating to the AWS Cloud. This will be a challenging role for the right individual. You will have strong experience in DevOps as you will be the standalone Resource, working in conjunction with the Development team. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for understanding requirements, designing and documenting a proposed solution, and then delivering the solution within a defined framework.
Responsibilities
• From day 1, we welcome and expect you to share your opinions on any matter in our business, not just technology issues.
• This role will include deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet customer needs
• Visualize and create infrastructure and solutions architecture diagrams
• Provide guidance on strategies for monitoring, tracing and profiling applications
• Provide guidance on building, testing and releasing applications with our small team of Developers as the DevOps expert
• Execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately and securely.
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide technical support to our internal team
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate visualization
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Work on Automation and continuous integration
Qualifications:
• 5 years’ work experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer
• Strong hands-on experience with mainline programming and scripting languages such as shell, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java
• Experience with automation and continuous integration
• 3 – 5 years’ experience with building out infrastructure and environments in the AWS Cloud, managing release, and CI/CD workflows and tools for example: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity
• Experience with Kubernetes (or similar systems such as Chef, Puppet, Salt or Ansible) in production environments
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks like NewRelic APM, AWS X-Ray, backend health checks, transaction monitoring, and RUM
• Experience with development and automated testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated UI testing (e.g. Selenium)
• Understanding of microservices and distributed application architecture
• Experience working with Agile practices
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Problem-solving attitude
• Team spirit and strong collaboration
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile and Automation)
• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
Location: Remote - Anywhere in Canada
Salary: Open
Start Date: Early September
Perks
• 3 weeks vacation. No blackout dates. Take it when you need it.
• Medical and dental group benefits plan
• Work with a great group of people who are passionate about their work
Our Client is a well-established company with a Cloud accounting application with thousands of users. We have an easy to use and well respected web based accounting / business expense application and an award winning iOS app.
We are a small team based in Vancouver, BC with a hybrid working environment of collaborating virtually and working together in our downtown Vancouver office. We’re too small for departments and everyone works together to deliver on our goals. We pride ourselves on being able to accomplish big things with a small team, and are looking for individuals who are keen to make a real impact in their next role. You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to design and code modules for Infrastructure, applications and processes.
Scope of Role:
This role will be responsible for working with our Outsource team, to bring the DevOps function back in-house. In parallel, the environment will be migrating to the AWS Cloud. This will be a challenging role for the right individual. You will have strong experience in DevOps as you will be the standalone Resource, working in conjunction with the Development team. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for understanding requirements, designing and documenting a proposed solution, and then delivering the solution within a defined framework.
Responsibilities
• From day 1, we welcome and expect you to share your opinions on any matter in our business, not just technology issues.
• This role will include deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet customer needs
• Visualize and create infrastructure and solutions architecture diagrams
• Provide guidance on strategies for monitoring, tracing and profiling applications
• Provide guidance on building, testing and releasing applications with our small team of Developers as the DevOps expert
• Execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately and securely.
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide technical support to our internal team
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate visualization
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Work on Automation and continuous integration
Qualifications:
• 5 years’ work experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer
• Strong hands-on experience with mainline programming and scripting languages such as shell, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java
• Experience with automation and continuous integration
• 3 – 5 years’ experience with building out infrastructure and environments in the AWS Cloud, managing release, and CI/CD workflows and tools for example: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity
• Experience with Kubernetes (or similar systems such as Chef, Puppet, Salt or Ansible) in production environments
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks like NewRelic APM, AWS X-Ray, backend health checks, transaction monitoring, and RUM
• Experience with development and automated testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated UI testing (e.g. Selenium)
• Understanding of microservices and distributed application architecture
• Experience working with Agile practices
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Problem-solving attitude
• Team spirit and strong collaboration
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile and Automation)
• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
Salary
100,000 - 120,000 /year