Cloud DevOps Engineer – Health

Alquemy Search & Consulting; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Alquemy Search & Consulting seeks a Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain Azure-based infrastructure and Kubernetes deployments. You will implement Helm-based deployments, GitOps workflows with Argo CD, and robust CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable releases.

You will collaborate with developers and data engineers, optimize resource usage, monitor health metrics, and enforce security practices across environments, while maintaining detailed runbooks and operational docs.

Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps or cloud operations.
• Hands-on with AKS or other Kubernetes platforms.
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD tools.
• Strong Linux administration and networking troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform, including compute, networking, storage, and services supporting application and data workloads.
• Manage and fine-tune Azure infrastructure to improve reliability, performance, resource utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain applications on Kubernetes using Helm and Argo CD.
• Create and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and GitOps deployment configurations across environments.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures and application issues involving pods, services, ingress, configuration, resource limits, and connectivity.
• Work closely with developers and data engineers to support releases and troubleshoot application and data engineering workloads, including ETL pipelines.
• Build and maintain container images and manage their publication to container registries.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to make application releases reliable and repeatable.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health, investigate alerts, and resolve operational issues.
• Follow established security practices for access, secrets, and infrastructure and deployment changes.
• Maintain clear runbooks and operational documentation.

Skills

DevOps experience

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Monitoring

Security practices

Git

Networking

Tools

AKS

Argo CD

Helm

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Git

Job description

We are seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join the Health Team. This role will focus on provisioning and maintaining Azure infrastructure, supporting Kubernetes-based applications, and building reliable CI/CD and GitOps deployment processes.

What You’ll Do

• Provision and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform, including compute, networking, storage, and services supporting application and data workloads.
• Manage and fine-tune Azure infrastructure to improve reliability, performance, resource utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain applications on Kubernetes using Helm and Argo CD.
• Create and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and GitOps deployment configurations across environments.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures and application issues involving pods, services, ingress, configuration, resource limits, and connectivity.
• Work closely with developers and data engineers to support releases and troubleshoot application and data engineering workloads, including ETL pipelines.
• Build and maintain container images and manage their publication to container registries.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to make application releases reliable and repeatable.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health, investigate alerts, and resolve operational issues.
• Follow established security practices for access, secrets, and infrastructure and deployment changes.
• Maintain clear runbooks and operational documentation.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in DevOps or cloud operations.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or another managed Kubernetes platform such as EKS/GKE, or self-hosted Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes.
• Experience using Helm to configure and deploy applications, including maintaining charts and environment-specific values.
• Hands-on experience using Terraform to provision and maintain cloud infrastructure, including reusable configuration, state management, and reviewing and applying infrastructure changes.
• Hands-on experience managing Azure compute, networking, storage, access, and monitoring.
• Hands-on Linux administration and network troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Git and at least one CI/CD platform, such as GitHub Actions.
• Ability to correlate logs, metrics, and events to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Clear communication, ownership of assigned work, and effective collaboration with other engineers.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting data platforms, data pipelines, or Azure services used for data processing and storage.
• Experience supporting AI/ML pipelines.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Kubernetes monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.