Application Release Engineer (IaaS)

Highbrow LLC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company is looking for an experienced Application Release Engineer located in Toronto. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of relevant experience and a strong background in IaaS automation technologies such as VMC, Terraform, OpenStack, and Cloudify. The role involves leading deployments, designing automated systems, and ensuring security processes are maintained. This is a long-term position requiring onsite presence two days a week.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in application release engineering.
• Strong experience in managing complex platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of automation tools and processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead application deployments in automation technologies.
• Design and maintain automated systems for code deployment.
• Integrate technical solutions recognizing system interdependencies.

Skills

IaaS automation

Terraform

OpenStack

Cloudify

Automation

Code deployment

Education

University or post-graduate degree

Job description

Job Title: Application Release Engineer (IaaS)

Job ID: 2024-12699

Job Location: Toronto ON (2 days/week onsite)

Job Travel Location(s):

# Positions: 1

Employment Type: W2

Duration:Long Term

# of Layers:0

Work Eligibility:All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers

Key Technology:Automated systems, code packages

Job Responsibilities:

Lead application deployments in a few technologies in single domain (e.g. IaaS automation on VMC/Terraform/Salt and/or OpenStack/Cloudify/Salt)

Lead code deployments end-to-end, across all environments, for an application / product.

Design, implement, and maintain one or more automated systems that build, install, and deploy code packages, artifacts and/or configurations.

Actively support the design and implementation of automated data collection and visualization processes across applications and portfolios.

Collect and translate environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities as required.

Integrate technical solutions within the business environment, recognizing system interdependencies and reusability, and ensuring seamless delivery.

Define and ensure that appropriate security levels are established and maintained for processes, information exchange and system implementations.

Define, document, perform and contribute to automation and manual execution of Release Engineering functions for either cloud or non-cloud services, products, and platforms.

Report to the Application Release Engineering Segment Practice Lead

Skills and Experience Required:

Required:

5-7 years of relevant experience.

Experience and knowledge in managing broad and highly complex platforms that are diverse in scope.

Experience with IaaS automation on VMC/Terraform/Salt and/or OpenStack/Cloudify/Salt or similar.

Ability to identify issues and gaps and keep on top of emerging industry trends in the ARE discipline.

Advanced knowledge of ARE domain or range of engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes, and procedures, as well as organization issues.

Advanced knowledge of applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices, business/organization, and Bank standards.

Acts as an ARE SME resource for colleagues with less experience.

Education:

University or post-graduate degree

Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)