DevOPS/Cloud Engineer (RQ11363) Government Services Integration Cluster

Softline™ Technology Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Softline™ Technology Inc. seeks a cloud infrastructure engineer to design, build and support cloud environments for digital products, primarily on AWS, with focus on reliability and security.

You will work on IaC with Terraform, configuration management with Ansible, container platforms like OpenShift ROSA, and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring security and cost effectiveness across environments. The role requires collaboration across teams to implement scalable, compliant solutions and maintain

Qualifications

• Experience designing, provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, CloudFront.
• Ability to architect multi-account AWS environments following best practices.
• Experience implementing IaC standards with Terraform, module versioning and drift detection.
• Proficiency in Ansible playbooks, inventories, and CI/CD integration for auditable deployments.
• Hands-on with OpenShift ROSA, cluster upgrades, RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SecurityContexts.
• Strong CI/CD design using GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, and GitOps with ArgoCD.
• Experience with security and compliance tooling, vulnerability management, and secret management.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure and cloud resources.
• Architect multi-account environments aligned with Well-Architected Framework.
• Develop and maintain Terraform configurations and Terraform Cloud workflows.
• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks and CI/CD integrations for repeatable deployments.
• Operate OpenShift ROSA clusters and manage RBAC, policies, and add-ons.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for infrastructure and apps.
• Embed security controls across the infrastructure and CI/CD lifecycle.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift ROSA

CI/CD

Git/Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

Security

Monitoring

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift ROSA

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Docker

Kubernetes

Maven

Job description

Description

Responsibilities:

Design, build and support cloud environments to create digital products

Monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available

Create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access

General Skills

Experience in one of the leading cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, etc

Experience in maintaining complex Linux cloud environments, like CentOS, Ubuntu, or CoreOS, to support modern web technologies: LAMP, Drupal and Elasticsearch / Elasticloud

Experience setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Maven and Jenkins or similar tools

Experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node, etc.

Experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc. for continuous integration

Knowledge of container-based virtualization technology like Docker or Kubernetes

Integration experience in building and using APIs

Experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards and best practices

Experience in mobile device management for various versions of cellular and tablets

Experience Requirements

1.Cloud Infrastructure & AWS – 25%

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

2.Infrastructure as Code — Terraform/Terraform Cloud – 20%

• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for all cloud infrastructure.
• Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, variable sets, and team access policies.
• Enforce IaC standards including module versioning, input/output conventions, and documentation.
• Implement drift detection and remediation workflows using Terraform Cloud run tasks and policy-as-code (Sentinel or OPA).
• Lead Terraform code review processes and mentor junior team members on best practices.

3.Configuration Management — Ansible – 15%

• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
• Manage Ansible inventories across dynamic cloud environments using AWS dynamic inventory plugins.
• Integrate Ansible automation with CI/CD pipelines for repeatable and auditable deployments.
• Use Ansible Vault for secrets management and always ensure secure handling of credentials.
• Develop idempotent, well-tested automation that reduces manual toil and configuration drift.

4.Container Platform — OpenShift ROSA – 10%

• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
• Define and enforce OpenShift RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SecurityContextConstraints (SCCs).
• Manage Operators, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays for workload deployment on ROSA.
• Ensure cluster hardening against CIS benchmarks and organizational security policies.

5.CI/CD Pipelines – 10%

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Service) for infrastructure and application delivery.
• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for declarative, auditable deployments to OpenShift ROSA.
• Integrate security scanning tooling (SAST, container scanning, dependency auditing) into pipeline gates.
• Champion shift-left testing principles, ensuring infrastructure changes are validated before promotion to production.
• Maintain pipeline-as-code standards with versioned, peer-reviewed pipeline definitions.

6.Security & Compliance – 10%

• Serve as a key contributor to the team’s security posture, embedding security controls throughout the infrastructure and CI/CD lifecycle.
• Implement secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager) and enforce least-privilege access.
• Support vulnerability management processes by triaging findings from infrastructure and container scanning tools.
• Participate in incident response and post-mortem processes, ensuring remediation actions are tracked and resolved.

7.Observability & Reliability – 10%

• Build and maintain end-to-end observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch.
• Define and track SLOs and SLIs for critical platform services and workloads.
• Lead on-call incident response for platform-level issues, conducting RCAs and driving permanent fixes.
• Produce and maintain runbooks and architectural decision records (ADRs).

Supplier Comments

Closing Date/Time: 2026-08-19, 12:00 p.m. EST

Max submission: 1 (one)

5 days onsite

Please focus on:

Extensive experience working with container and non-container workloads

Extensive experience working with Designing and building Terraform/IAC and ansible playbooks.

Must Have:

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront.
• Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing.
• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for all cloud infrastructure.
• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Service) for infrastructure and application delivery.