Senior DevOps Specialist

Dejero • Waterloo, ON

111d • CA$90,000 - CA$140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Specialist to join our DevOps team. This individual is responsible for developing, deploying and maintaining Dejero’s high-availability, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure using the latest technologies and tools. This will be a hybrid role that will require the individual to be in the office 1-2 days per week.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent industry experience
• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure deployment and operations in a DevOps or site reliability role
• Proven experience architecting, designing and deploying large scale, highly available and resilient cloud infrastructure
• Advanced experience in networking and network administration
• Proficiency in Linux administration, virtualization technologies, and high-availability scalable cloud infrastructure
• Advanced experience with hypervisor-based and container-based virtualization technologies including Docker/Kubernetes
• Advanced experience with relational and NoSQL clustered database administration and management in high-availability, fault-tolerant environments
• Prior experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaaC) deployment, infrastructure configurations management, automation and orchestration tools such as Terraform
• Strong experience in continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery methodology and tools
• Prior experience with security frameworks and best practices to secure cloud infrastructures
• Strong scripting skills with Bash, Python or other languages
• Prior experience with setting up and running a variety of cloud monitoring, logging and operations tools
• Detail-oriented with excellent analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills
• Prior experience with data recovery, backups, and data replication technologies and best practices
• Prior experience with Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud platforms
• Working knowledge of artificial intelligence concepts and practical familiarity with AI tools and workflows.

Nice To Haves

• Software development, SQA, or release management
• Azure or AWS cloud-related certifications

Responsibilities

• Evolve and manage Dejero’s next-generation cloud-based product infrastructure
• Champion DevOps operational excellence and best practices
• Closely collaborate with the Development and QA teams to ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and security of the infrastructure and new software releases
• Develop, deploy and maintain various tools to facilitate the healthy operation and monitoring of the infrastructure
• Collaborate with other DevOps and Development team members to investigate problematic root causes, and fixes, and drive continuous improvements to meet agreed-upon uptime targets.
• Be the subject matter expert on cloud deployment and operations technologies including design and architecture of scalable, highly available and resilient infrastructure
• Provide Tier 2 level support. On-call participation is required

Benefits

• Opportunity to develop your own career path with support from your manager and the People + Culture team.
• Employees are able to choose their preferred work environment; home, work or hybrid.
• Award-winning culture, products, and teams.
• Great Place to Work ranked us 5th Best Place to Work in Canada!
• Won two Emmys for our Smart Blending Technology.
• Giving back is a key pillar of our culture.
• Dejero and its employees contributed thousands of dollars to 12 local and international charities.
• Dejero’s Day of Doing Great Things and employees’ annual paid volunteer day.
• Encourage our team to go out into the community and volunteer for local organizations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior