DEVOPS ANALYST (HYBRID)

Green Shield Canada (GSC); Windsor; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization committed to enhancing health for all Canadians. As a DevOps Analyst, you'll design and automate systems that ensure seamless software delivery, driving innovation and transformation across the organization. This role requires a mix of technical expertise and creativity, allowing you to tackle complex problems while staying updated with the latest technologies. Collaborate with diverse teams to enhance engineering tools and processes, ensuring a reliable and efficient infrastructure. If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a culture that values inclusivity and growth, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Health Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Employee Assistance Program

Community Engagement Initiatives

Wellness Programs

Remote Work Options

Diversity and Inclusion Training

Team Building Activities

Paid Time Off for Volunteering

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a DevOps role or CI/CD support.
• Expert knowledge in Python, Ruby, and related tools in production.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

Responsibilities

• Design and automate systems for continuous software delivery.
• Collaborate on improving engineering tools and data security.
• Monitor metrics and enhance performance and reliability.

Skills

Python

Ruby

Groovy

Bash

Chef

Puppet

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux Administration

Agile Practices

IP Networking

Monitoring Frameworks

Cloud Services

Education

University Degree in Computer Science

College Diploma in Computer Science

Tools

Azure

Google Cloud

Datadog

Dynatrace

Splunk

Redis

Vault

ELK Stack

MongoDB

Kong

Job description

WHO WE ARE
When it comes to health, we’re always looking for waysto push for better. It’s why we were founded in the first place. In 1957, ourfounder, pharmacist William Wilkinson, witnessed a mother sacrifice her healthby forgoing her own medicine to pay for her sick daughter’s prescription. Heknew there had to be a better way. So, he introduced North America’s firstprepaid drug plan, and GreenShield was born as a not-for-profit with a missionto support better health for all Canadians.

We aren’t just a health and benefits company. We’rethe only not-for-profit social enterprise that brings worlds of coverage andcare together, all in one place.
We’re noble challengers, purposefully building a betterway and we need the best people to help us create a more holistic approach thattakes care of the mind and body.

Our mission is to create better health for allCanadians, and we know that starts with our employees.

THEROLE IN A NUTSHELL

A DevOps Analyst is responsible for designing, executing, monitoring, and automating systems and infrastructure to allow for the continuous delivery of software. A successful candidate has technical depth across the Full DevOps spectrum along with leading and evangelizing transformations, and driving innovations. They are creative, innovative, enjoy solving complex problems and like to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies.

• Research and learn new technologies and related tools to introduce to the organization.
• Prototype, design, and implement build system components
• Setup, configure, and maintain tooling for infrastructure provisioning
• Collaborate with team members to improve the company's engineering tools, systems / procedures, and data security.
• Create application and data deployment pipelines and work with our application teams to help maintain and troubleshoot
• Work on ways to automate and improve release processes
• Implement canary and zero-downtime deployments
• Monitor metrics and create ways to improve performance and reliability
• Participate in the evolution of our reference architecture that integrates best-of-breed open source software.
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Support development teams with best practices, patterns and performance tuning of tools in our reference architecture
• Drive Best Practices and continuous improvement in code and infrastructure deployments
• Build and maintain a suite of automated load/stress tests
• Implement a resiliency tool (ie. Chaos Monkey) to ensure our applications and infrastructure can tolerate failures
• Automate collection and reporting of team metrics, and provide insights to help improve our operations and processes
• Share knowledge across teams and peers
• Create and maintain standards and processes documentation for best practices and patterns
• Collaborate with infrastructure and development teams to help build reliable applications and answer technical questions
• You may be required to be on 24x7 on-call rotation to help maintain service reliability for our customers
• Work closely with our operations team to assist with incident management

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• A university degree or college diploma in Computer Science or related discipline
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a DevOps role or CI/CD support experience
• Expert knowledge and experience with the following: Python, Ruby, Groovy, Bash or similar, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or Ansible in production environments
• Experience in designing and provisioning CI/CD pipelines (ADO, GitHub Actions)
• Strong working knowledge with Kubernetes and Docker in a production environment
• Experience with administrative tasks in Linux
• Experience with architecting and automated provisioning, configuration management for applications and infrastructure
• Experience establishing, implementing, and delivering using Agile practices
• Understanding of micro-services and other application architectures
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, load balancing and firewalls
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks like Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk etc.
• Experience with Redis, Vault, ELK stack, MongoDB, Kong in a production environment
• Experience with Azure, Google or other cloud services
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to work collaboratively within teams and projects with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong organization skills and the ability to work within tight deadlines with attention to detail and accuracy
• Possess extraordinary problem-solving skills and a systematic approach to decision-making

NICE TO HAVE

Bilingualism (English & French)

THE CULTURE
We believe a career should be meaningful. Not just ameans to earn a living. Our culture is one where everyone's voice is heard andvalued. Because that’s what it takesto create better health for all. We dare to challenge the status quo. And we’redriven by people who have challenged theirs. We believe that yourworkplace should empower you to be the best version of yourself. That’s why we provide aplace where you can be inspired, challenged, and rewarded.

Where your growth means our growth.
Where your voice is heard and valued.
Where your work has purpose. And purpose matters.

We believe our people arecritical to our overall success. Inclusivity makes us a stronger, smarter andmore informed organization. Being intentionally inclusive of diversebackgrounds, perspectives and experiences will enhance our company culture topositively impact how we support our communities. A career at GreenShield isn’t just about personalachievements, it's about making adifference together.

Here’s to Better Health for All!

AFEW MORE DETAILS
Proficiency in English is requiredfor this position. As part of this role, you will be required to communicatewith colleagues or customers who use English as their primary language. By requiring English proficiency for thisposition, we aim to ensure that our employees can excel in their roles,collaborate, and communicate effectively, and contribute to the success of ourorganization.

GS supports diversity, equity andinclusion in our teams and communities, and we value the unique contributionsmade by all. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly to everyrequirement, we invite you to apply. We encourage applications fromall candidates and will accommodate needs under human rights legislationthroughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please let usknow of any accommodation through [e-mail]. Information received relating toaccommodation will be addressed confidentially.

Providing this information givesGS consent to use your personal information to assess your suitability forspecific positions, future opportunities or for your personnel file. Yourrésumé will be held in strict confidence and will be viewed only by theOrganization. Information may be stored outside of Canada and could be used foraggregate statistical purposes (which uses no personal identification).