Tech Lead (Integration Platform)

Air Canada • Dorval, QC

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation. Air Canada is modernizing its application platform using cloud‑native and service‑mesh‑based architectures. The Technical Lead will play a critical leadership role in designing, operating, and evolving our Red Hat OpenShift clusters and the Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh platform. This is an excellent opportunity for a tech lead to join Air Canada (an iconic Canadian symbol) and participate in the development of leading-edge solutions. The ideal candidate we are seeking, is a highly motivated, innovative individual, with excellent analytical skills, who is results-oriented (ready to deliver) and self-driven.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, software engineering with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Experience in software development for enterprise services and applications is big plus
• Strong hands‑on experience operating Red Hat OpenShift clusters in production environments
• Deep expertise with Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh (OSSM) and its core components
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes networking concepts, including ingress/egress, service discovery, DNS, and network policies
• Strong operational knowledge of Linux, containers, and cloud‑native runtime environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design discussions, review architectures, and define platform standards
• Experience troubleshooting complex, cross‑layer production issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, and service mesh components
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across platform, SRE, security, and application teams.
• Strong experience in application development using service oriented, web services and event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of API-related protocols, specifications and data formats.
• Knowledge of Agile environment with experience in source control systems like GitHub, Bit-Bucket, etc.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment lifecycle
• Knowledge of design and integration patterns.
• Ability to work effectively and produce high quality work under pressure and in rapidly changing environments or uncertain conditions.
• Ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team in person and remotely.
• Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Interest in learning new technologies and in understanding the airline industry
• Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS technologies including ROSA
• Experience with API-management software
• Red Hat certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, OpenShift certifications).
• Software development certifications
• Experience in the Airline Industry

Responsibilities

• Maintain, configure and upgrade, and operate workloads deployed on our Red Hat OpenShift clusters
• Install, configure, upgrade, and patch OpenShift Service Mesh (OSSM) and its core components (Istio, Envoy, ingress/egress gateways).
• Administer authentication and authorization mechanisms within the cluster
• Ensure top quality observability of the OpenShift platform
• Ensure platform security and compliance, including certificate management, mesh security policies, and vulnerability remediation.
• Analyze and resolve platform issues.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for OpenShift and OSSM
• Interpret new and existing requirements and build solutions accordingly
• Assist application teams with best practices for deploying and operating services within the service mesh
• Assess requirements, identify dependencies/risks and take actions to resolve them
• Optimize platform performance and its quality
• Identify potential issues within the platform and adjust
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand constraints and runtime requirements.
• Responsible for continual platform enhancements.
• Contribute to the continuous enhancement of the teams and their processes by bringing new ideas, solutions, and delivering productive feedback.

Benefits

• Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.

What This Job Offers

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