Cloud Engineer (AWS)

S&P Global; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Calgary seeks a DevOps Engineer to enhance cloud infrastructure while collaborating with development teams. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in DevOps, with strong skills in AWS and Terraform. This full-time position involves both on-site and remote work, providing a dynamic environment to solve complex problems and implement innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant DevOps and Software Engineering experience.
• Proven experience working with AWS cloud technologies, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Linux and networking.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software development teams to improve application reliability and performance.
• Provide BAU Production support and resolve issues promptly.
• Develop scripts to automate tasks and streamline processes.

Skills

AWS cloud technologies

DevOps practices

Terraform

Python

Unix shell scripting

Monitoring solutions

Database management

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GitHub

MongoDB

Grafana

PagerDuty

Splunk

Job description

Overview

The Team: S&P Global Enterprise Data Organization team is a creative team of experts collaborating across divisions and driving continuous improvements in platform innovation and usability.

The Impact: Joining our team in Canada, the candidate will be responsible for supporting and expanding our cloud infrastructure, monitoring and alerting frameworks, onboarding / migration projects, and interacting with the wider DevOps, QA, and development teams. We are looking for someone with proven DevOps experience who has development and operational skills and can deliver a secure and structured automated solutions to our operational tasks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software development teams to improve application reliability, performance, security and scalability.
• Provide BAU Production support, and resolve issues either spotted by monitoring or reported by users before causing business impact.
• Develop scripts in Terraform, Python and Unix shell scripting to automate tasks and streamline processes.
• Design, implement, and manage infrastructure using Terraform on AWS cloud platform utilizing best practices.
• Comfortable with writing database queries and performing database management with an added advantage of experience in MongoDB, AWS storage solutions.
• Set up and configure monitoring solutions, including Grafana, PagerDuty, Splunk to ensure system health and respond to incidents promptly.
• Availability to occasionally participate in weekend production releases / deployments and availability to sometimes discuss handovers with teams in Europe and Asia at the early mornings or late afternoon.

What We’re Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant DevOps and Software Engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; relevant certifications.
• Proven experience working with AWS cloud technologies, GitHub, Terraform, and CI / CD pipelines.
• Familiar with Database and Database query (MongoDB experience preferred but not mandatory; good experience in scripting or coding would be a plus).
• Familiarity with monitoring solutions / logging solutions such as PagerDuty / Splunk and other industry-standard tools.
• Linux and networking knowledge. Good understanding of AWS network configurations such as Routing, DNS, Load Balancing, IAM, security groups.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability and a proactive approach to identifying, resolving issues and raising improvement opportunities.
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment and handle multiple priorities.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including experience speaking to technical and business audiences.
• Be able to work independently, or drive a group of people, to work on improvement projects.

Details

• Right to work: This role is limited for candidates with indefinite right to work within Canada.
• Location: CALGARY 112 4TH AVENUE S.W. CANADA (2-3 days a week onsite)
• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Financial Services, Technology, Information and Media, and Software Development

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