DevOps Engineer

Mailchannels Corporation; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

MailChannels is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own and improve our deployment pipeline. You will partner with Architects and Developers to ensure validation, deployment, and monitoring are addressed early in the software lifecycle.

You will drive business continuity by implementing failover, auto-scaling and disaster recovery across AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux environments, supporting a fast-moving product team on the west coast of Canada.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience as a Linux systems administrator or systems engineer
• 3 years of experience as a software developer or QA test engineer
• Proven ability to automate deployment and infrastructure tasks

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of deployment pipeline and ensure only high quality builds go to production
• Contribute to business continuity with failover, auto-scaling and disaster recovery planning
• Work with Architects and Developers to address validation, deployment and monitoring early in development

Skills

Linux admin

Automation

DevOps

CI/CD

Networking

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Atlassian

HashiCorp

DataDog

Job description

DevOps Engineer

Job Description

MailChannels is a provider of innovative email security products for service providers. With an established history of successful execution, we still manage to maintain the energy and agility of a startup. Infrastructure and operations automation is a key part of our ability to deliver in such a dynamic environment.

Today, our deployment pipeline incorporates much of the Atlassian development and continuous deployment stack, configuration management is handled by the OpsCode stack and Docker, infrastructure runs on AWS, Kubernetes and Ubuntu or CentOS, and monitoring and alerting are handled by DataDog and PagerDuty respectively. We’re looking for someone that can take ownership of this pipeline to ensure that only high quality builds get into production and contingency plans are in place in the event of a service disruption.

DevOps engineers are embedded in the development team and work closely with Architects and Developers to ensure operational concerns such as validation, deployment, monitoring are addressed at the earliest stages of development. Additionally, DevOps engineers are responsible for business continuity concerns such as failover, auto-scaling and disaster recovery.

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years of experience as a Linux systems administrator or systems engineer
• 3 years of experience as a software developer or QA test engineer
• Proven ability to automate deployment and infrastructure tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Amazon EC2 and other AWS components
• Understanding of cloud orchestration; hands on experience with Kubernetes
• Understanding of continuous deployment; hands on experience with Atlassian stack
• Understanding of configuration management; hands on experience with Docker, OpsCode stack, HashiCorp stack
• Working knowledge of networking (load balancing, TCP/IP, Virtual IP, etc.)

Technology We Use

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| Go C Docker ElasticSearch RabbitMQ Chef | Java Grails Kubernetes Storm AWS Datadog |

About MailChannels

MailChannels is a software company founded by engineers with the goal to rid the world of spam. Our innovative products provide the platform of choice for service providers that want to ensure the best deliverability for their customers email, protect their IP reputation and get serious about doing their part to eliminate spam. With a strong product market fit, MailChannels has created solid annual growth. Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, MailChannels affords its employees great access to all the outdoor activities available on the west coast of Canada.