About this job

Our client is a rapidly expanding NewSpace venture that has received huge accolades over the past few years for their innovative technology that helps with the sustainability of our planet. 
 
Due to continued growth we are seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Developer who will lead the way for their main product DevOps environment. The ideal candidate will bring their experiences, best practices, and a collaborative attitude to help drive DevOps initiatives.
 
To be successful, you communicate effectively with their development and operations team to orchestrate the creation of solutions that can scale. The responsibilities include building a process for automation as well as contributing to the development of their main web-based product to achieve operational efficiency.
 

Responsibilities

• As part of a team implement DevOps infrastructure projects
• Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments
• Build and deploy automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions
• Manage our continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency
• Maintain high availability of their main web-based product
• Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management
• Secure, scale, and manage Linux virtual environments
• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement

Profile

• You are a disciplined practitioner of DevOps philosophy (CI/CD, IaC)
• IaC (Infrastructure of Code) is part of your DNA: Ansible, Terraform
• Application of observability is part of your process: Metrics, Loggings and Tracings
• SQL has little secret for you (PostgreSQL) but you also like connecting to graphs data (Neo4j)
• You love Linux (Debian) and appreciate the power of scripting languages (Python)
• You already developed some Web Applications in JavaScript or Python (Nginx, Express, Django)
• You would like to build your expertise in GIS (PostGIS, ESRI ArcGIS, NetCDF, HDF5)
• You appreciate the convenience and scalability of Cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure)
• Did you already mastered the containers orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)?
• You like learning from others, and autonomously
• You are a self-starter and require a limited supervision/guidance

 
Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in software development
• Ability to obtain Canadian government security clearances (Canadian Controlled Goods Program)