Senior DevOps

WestJet Group•Calgary, AB

5d•Onsite

About The Position

WestJet is seeking a Senior DevOps reporting into our Digital office. This individual can exhibit a high standard of excellence, enjoys challenges, and is results-driven. The incumbent must be highly motivated and demonstrate the ability to work in an agile environment. As a Senior DevOps, you will be designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting infrastructure as code to deliver APIs to our users. This position requires an energetic self-starter with a strong work ethic and willingness to learn and contribute to a fast-paced environment. Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others are essential. You will participate in the following areas: Apply industry-standard processes, practices, and techniques; Lead the development team and business stakeholders to develop appropriate software solutions that meet WestJet’s business, technical and quality requirements; Coach and mentor other dev team members.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
Minimum 7 years of DevOps experience (Azure preferred)
Designing and maintaining k8s environments (AKS preferred)
Building and deploying Docker containers
Linux administration
Continuous integration, testing, and deployment (Azure DevOps)
Implementing advanced monitoring for platforms and applications (Splunk cloud, Splunk Observability, etc.)
Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
CDN systems (Akamai)
Event Broker administration (Kafka, Azure Event Hub)
Redis caching configuration (e.g. Azure Redis)

Nice To Haves

Javascript(Node.js) and Java programming experience is an asset

Responsibilities

Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance systems that support the digital functions of the company
Implement and design CI/CD pipelines to automate the delivery of our APIs
Prepare and maintain IaC scripts for our infrastructure and monitoring platforms
Automate and document troubleshooting of production applications
Actively participate and provide technical expertise for the creation, implementation, and ongoing evolution of WestJet’s design and development methodologies, coding standards, and style guidelines
Participate in a pre/post-hours on-call rotation to maintain a 24x7 environment