AppOps, Senior Specialist

Interac Corp.; Old Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Specialist in AppOps to enhance and maintain high-performance payment systems. This role demands a hands-on application SME with expertise in Site Reliability Engineering and Application Management. You will be pivotal in driving application stability, optimizing performance, and implementing automation solutions. Join a passionate team dedicated to shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada, where your contributions will significantly impact the payment systems that Canadians rely on daily. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Education Investment

Performance-Based Pay

Collaborative Work Environment

Core Values Driven Culture

Qualifications

• 3+ years of advanced programming experience in Java, Python, and Spring Framework.
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks and ITIL practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance high-performance payment systems ensuring optimal performance.
• Drive application stability and service automation initiatives with business teams.

Skills

Java

Python

Spring Framework

AngularJS

Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Ansible)

Agile Frameworks

ITIL Framework

Service Management Practices

Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS)

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Certification in Site Reliability Engineering

Tools

Git

Azure Monitor

AppDynamics

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

ServiceNow

PagerDuty

Docker

Job description

AppOps, Senior Specialist

Apply locations Toronto time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id REQ-1357

AppOps, Senior Specialist

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada.

Reporting to the Leader, AppOps, the AppOps Senior Specialist will be a hands-on application SME with advanced expertise in Site Reliability engineering and Application Management.

You will be responsible for maintaining, enhancing, tuning and supporting Interac’s high performance payment systems. You will diagnose, resolve, and mitigate application problems and ensure optimal performance of our critical payment systems. You will focus on building and driving application automations, proactive observability, detection, and self-healing capabilities. You will respond to and action critical service alerts and mitigate against any service and client impact.

You will actively maintain Production application stability and ensure adherence with Prominent Payment system (PPS) standards for our national payment systems.

You’ll be responsible for:

1. Driving and prioritizing application stability and service automation / optimization initiatives with business and technical teams ensuring adherence and compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
2. Optimizing application performance and leveraging performance data, monitoring / diagnostic tools to continuously drive service excellence.
3. Analyzing application trends, proactively identify and act on emerging issues with Agile squads, driving detailed root cause analysis, and deep dive into the code to implement tuning and enhancements.
4. Developing and implementing scalable solutions to reduce manual intervention, and streamline the process for application deployments/validations and availability (self-healing, auto-scaling, etc.).
5. Implementing Application changes, configurations, and code promotions through all environments via automation and ensuring performance, reliability, and stability of our systems.
6. Designing and standardizing Enhanced Application insights including observability and trending (health rules, events, alerts) with a focus on predictive analysis and proactive intervention.
7. Create and maintain detailed technical and support documentation for our applications and systems.
8. Consolidate and automate dashboards, events and reports on Application performance metrics/KPIs.
9. Collaborate with development, service management, operations, and security teams to apply best practices into all aspects of Application Operations (e.g. CI/CD, IaC, security tool integrations).
10. Maintaining technology currency and vulnerabilities remediation with a keen eye on process improvement and automation capabilities.
11. Responding to and quickly resolving critical issues, 24/7 rotating on call production support and proactively mitigating risk and impact to production systems.

You bring:

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
2. 3+ years of advanced programming experience (Java, Python, Spring Framework, AngularJS, etc.).
3. Advanced expertise in using version control systems, such as Git, for managing codebases and collaboration.
4. Good understanding of different types of open-source packages, preferably Spring, Apache and data transformation (jaxb2, JSON, XML).
5. Advanced expertise with scripting e.g. Power Shell, Python, and Ansible.
6. Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks, ITIL framework and Service Management practices (Event Management/Incident Management/Change Management/Problem Management).
7. Advanced experience working with deploying and maintaining Dockerized applications.
8. Advanced experience using tools such as Azure Monitor, AppDynamics, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, ServiceNow, PagerDuty.
9. Strong experience in Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS).
10. Good understanding of software lifecycle including release planning, release processes, software testing, incident, problem and change management.
11. Well versed in analyzing data, identifying and proactively mitigating risk to production systems.
12. Strong written and verbal communication skills and can seamlessly communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
13. Strong and energetic team player and are able to engage with all stakeholders in a team environment.
14. Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.

Nice to Have:

1. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Certification.
2. Good understanding of database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL.
3. Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (or similar across AWS, GCP, etc.).
4. Experience working in Agile squads.
5. Experience working in the Financial and Payments services.
6. Experience with 24/7 on call support for critical production systems.

Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers. We use this service to complete the following checks:

1. Canadian criminal record check;
2. Public safety verification;
3. Canadian ID cross-check;
4. 5-year employment verification;
5. Education verification; and
6. If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check.

How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work. Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:

Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.

Core Values: They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.

Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.

Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you.