Lead Software Reliability Engineer

RE Partners; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

RE Partners is seeking an experienced Lead Software Reliability Engineer to drive CI/CD, testing, and safe automated deployments. This hands-on role blends coding with configuration, focusing on practical DevOps and SRE practices that empower development teams to ship safely and rapidly.

The role involves targeting teams with release challenges, building test suites, data masking, runtime upgrades, containerization, and modernizing dependencies while enforcing best practices in security and

Job description

Lead Software Reliability Engineer

We are seeking experienced, hands-on Software Reliability Engineers to act as evangelists for continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical DevOps and SRE role for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is roughly 70% coding and configuration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challengesgetting tosafe and rapid releasecadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
• Wrapping the application in a suite of well-designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests to be run as part of the deployment process.
• Sourcing and integrating appropriatetest data,implementingdata masking in lowerenvironments
• Upgrading to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
• Containerizing applications where feasible.
• Upgrading open-source libraries to their latest availablemajorversions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2).
• Upgrading to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images or operating system. Implementing processes that allow us seamlessly to stay current
• Implementing continuous library updates using Renovate.
• Introducing best practice source controland branch management
• Improving code review processes
• Ensuringbest practice security patterns,secrets management, authenticationand authorisation
• Simplifying and automating application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
• Introducing standard observability patterns.
• Overhauling exception handling and logging.
• Implementing resilient hot-hot cross-datacenter deployment topologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Really excellent understanding of thedifferent approachesto automation testing and an ability to choose the best approachand drive outcomes with AI support
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Highest quality coding skills
• An excellent understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architectureandobservability
• At home with multiple continuous integration and deployment systems
• Excellent understanding of secure coding practices
• Competent with Docker and Openshift
• Actively embracing AI coding
• Comfortable with build automation tools such as Gradle, Maven, andnpm.
• Competent with (RedHat ) Linux
• Spring framework skills are advantageous.
• Ansible skills are advantageous

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.