Senior DevOps Engineer

Team: IT Platform

Location: Toronto

Workplace Type: hybrid

Main Activities:

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• Provide subject matter expertise to developers and testers on the current and future technology of DevOps tools chain
• Work and collaborate with the larger team to exchange knowledge, solutions and practices to build a more consistent, robust approach to development approaches
• Research and analyze existing and emerging technologies to identify products, tools to support the DevOps team
• Continuously improve performance and proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks that will reduce time to build and deliver our software.
• Build and Maintain high availability Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery infrastructure.
• Engage as a lead in DevOps capacity planning, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Review and provide feedback on product functional specifications, design specifications.
• Perform formal Code Review, static and security analysis, design and implement Unit Tests and perform code coverage analysis
• Administer and oversee the Microsoft Power Platform suite, which includes managing Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents
• Set up and follow DevOps best practices for continuous integration and deployment of Power Platform solutions
• Work closely with Citizen developers and Power users to guide on best practices and also to educate and empower them to leverage the Power Platform effectively

Knowledge/Skill Requirements:

• Subject Matter expert with minimum 5 years’ experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment orchestration 
• Champion cloud deployments to Azure, AWS or GCP - 2 year solid hands-on experience.
• Expertise in platform as a service using Pivotal CF or IBM Bluemix - 2+ year experience 
• Good trouble shooting skills and practical usage of various source control systems (Git, SVN) - 5+ years of experience
• Solid understanding of Software Delivery Lifecycle
• Good to have SecOps experience
• Architecture and design understanding behind containers and work with Docker, Kubernetes or similar technologies - 3+ years of experience
• Working knowledge of programming/scripting in one or more of the following languages: Java, C, C++, groovy, Python, Shell
• Familiarity with Power Platform suite
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in the field of Computer Science, Systems or Engineering
• Five or more years of similar professional experience
 
Accountability
• The Senior Dev Ops Engineer will help development teams (in house and external vendor suppliers) build, integrate, manage and deploy releases into all environments using a hybrid methodology (Agile + Waterfall). This role requires collaboration with all participants across the SDLC: software developers, Quality Assurance, Automated Testing, Infrastructure, Production Owners, Operations, Channels, and Business Units representatives as they continuously develop, deploy, test and implement technology changes.