AppOps Senior Specialist with AWS

Quarry Consulting; Canada; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Canada seeks an AppOps Senior Specialist to support resilient production workloads with AWS. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and strong AppOps expertise, especially with AWS tools and technologies. This role requires excellent communication skills and experience with Agile methodologies. The position is onsite in downtown Toronto for three days a week, offering a 6-8 month contract with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience in AppOps with resilient production workloads with AWS.
• Expertise in version control and collaboration tools.

Skills

AppOps expertise with AWS

Version control systems (Git)

Scripting (Power Shell, Python, Ansible)

Terraform & Infrastructure as Code

Microservices and containerization (Docker)

Monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana)

Agile development

Software lifecycle understanding

Data analysis and risk mitigation

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or related field

Tools

Docker

JIRA

GitHub

Job description

Title: AppOps Senior Specialist - with AWS

Location: Onsite downtown Toronto - 3 days a week

Duration: 6-8 month contract

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience in AppOps with highly resilient and highly performant production workloads with AWS
• Expertise in using version control systems, such as Git, for managing codebases and collaboration.
• Expertise with scripting e.g. Power Shell, Python, and Ansible.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with microservices and containerization (i.e., Docker).
• Experience using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, ServiceNow.
• Good understanding of AWS ECS core architectural concepts: clusters, task definitions, tasks, services, autoscaling (service and cluster auto scaling), and networking integration (such as with Elastic Load Balancing and AWS VPC).
• Strong knowledge of Agile development and Agile frameworks (e.g. JIRA, GitHub)
• Good understanding of software lifecycle including release planning, release processes, software testing, incident, problem and change management.
• Well versed in analyzing data, identifying and proactively mitigating risk to production systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and can seamlessly communicate with internal and external stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Certification
• Experience with OpenShift Kubernetes
• Experience with DevOps concepts
• Good understanding of database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL
• AWS certifications
• Experience working with OpenShift
• Experience working in the Financial and Payments services.
• ITIL Certification