DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Symbiotic Group; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbiotic Group seeks an experienced DevOps / Cloud Engineer to design, build, and support cloud-based environments for modern digital products.

The role covers AWS infrastructure, IaC with Terraform, Ansible, OpenShift ROSA, and secure, observable platforms with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Strong hands-on with Terraform for IaC and drift remediation.
• Automation-focused with Ansible playbooks and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with ROSA and OpenShift in AWS environments.
• Security and cost-optimization practices are essential.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, and services.
• Implement and maintain IaC standards and drift-remediation workflows.
• Operate and optimize OpenShift ROSA clusters and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop automation to reduce manual configuration and improve reliability.
• Enforce security, monitoring, and cost controls across environments.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift ROSA

CI/CD

AWS

Cloud Security

ArgoCD

Terraform Cloud

Python

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform Cloud

Job description

We are seeking an experienced DevOps / Cloud Engineer to design, build, and support cloud-based environments that enable the delivery of modern digital products. The successful candidate will be responsible for cloud infrastructure, automation, platform operations, security, observability, and CI/CD implementation while supporting both containerized and non-containerized workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including:
  
• VPCs
  
• Subnets
  
• Security Groups
  
• EC2
  
• ECS
  
• EKS
  
• RDS
  
• S3
  
• Route 53
  
• CloudFront
  
• Architect multi-account AWS environments using AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
  
• Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including:
  
• Reserved Instances
  
• Savings Plans
  
• Implement and maintain:
  
• CloudTrail
  
• AWS Config
  
• GuardDuty
  
• Security Hub
  
• AWS Organizations SCPs
  

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Terraform Cloud)

• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations.
  
• Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, variable sets, and team access policies.
  
• Enforce IaC standards including:
  
• Input/output conventions
  
• Documentation
  
• Implement drift detection and remediation workflows using Terraform Cloud run tasks and policy-as-code solutions.
  
• Lead Terraform code reviews and mentor team members on best practices.
  

Configuration Management (Ansible)

• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
  
• Manage Ansible inventories across dynamic cloud environments.
  
• Integrate Ansible automation with CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Utilize Ansible Vault for secure secrets management.
  
• Develop repeatable, idempotent automation that reduces manual effort and configuration drift.
  

Container Platform Administration

• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters.
  
• Perform cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
  
• Define and enforce:
  
• RBAC controls
  
• Security Context Constraints (SCCs)
  
• Manage Operators, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays.
  
• Ensure cluster security alignment with organizational standards.
  
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
  
• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
  
• Integrate security scanning and auditing tools into deployment pipelines.
  
• Promote shift-left testing practices.
  
• Maintain pipeline-as-code standards with peer-reviewed definitions.
  

Security & Compliance

• Embed security controls throughout infrastructure and deployment lifecycles.
  
• Implement secrets management solutions.
  
• Enforce least-privilege access controls.
  
• Support vulnerability management processes.
  
• Participate in incident response and remediation activities.
  

Observability & Reliability

• Build and maintain observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch.
  
• Define and monitor SLOs and SLIs.
  
• Lead incident response activities and root cause investigations.
  
• Produce and maintain operational documentation including runbooks and architectural decision records.
  

General Technical Requirements

• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  
• CentOS
  
• Ubuntu
  
• CoreOS
  
• Experience with web technologies such as:
  
• LAMP
  
• Drupal
  
• Elasticsearch
  
• Experience using development and collaboration tools such as:
  
• JIRA
  
• Confluence
  
• Maven
  
• Jenkins
  
• Experience with scripting languages including:
  
• Python
  
• Bash
  
• PHP
  
• Java
  
• Node.js
  
• Experience with version control and automation tools such as:
  
• Git
  
• Ansible
  
• Chef
  
• Puppet
  
• Knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
  
• Experience building and integrating APIs.
  
• Knowledge of web architecture, security standards, and industry best practices.
  

Must-Have Skills

• Extensive experience working with containerized and non-containerized workloads.
  
• Strong expertise designing and building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  
• Advanced experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and automation.
  
• Experience operating Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).
  
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve customers in two ways, we provide:

• Digital Experts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results
  
• Recruitment: Find The Right People You Need
  

Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.