Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Motion Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dual Workload

Automation Stack

AWS Scope

Onsite 5 days

Job summary

Motion Recruitment in Toronto onsite seeks a Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer to design, build, and support high-availability cloud infrastructure and automated delivery pipelines. You will own both containerized and non-containerized workloads using IaC and configuration management to provision robust AWS environments.

Collaborating with development, security, and operations teams, you will manage ROSA/EKS clusters, enforce least-privilege security, optimize costs, and implement CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

• Container and non-container workloads design, deployment, and management in enterprise clouds.
• IaC design using Terraform modules with remote backends.
• Ansible automation for server configuration and deployment.
• Core AWS services (VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront) design and management.
• ROSA/OpenShift administration including scaling and upgrades.
• CI/CD tooling with GitLab CI or Azure DevOps and GitOps (ArgoCD).

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure following Well-Architected principles.
• Develop and maintain Terraform configurations for automated deployment.
• Create idempotent Ansible playbooks and manage configurations across environments.
• Administer ROSA/EKS clusters and container orchestration.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Implement security controls, least-privilege access, and monitoring.
• Optimize costs and configure CloudWatch for observability.
• Produce runbooks and ADRs for deployment and architecture decisions.

Skills

Container & Non-Container Workloads

Terraform & IaC Design

Ansible Automation

AWS Core Services

OpenShift & ROSA Administration

CI/CD Pipeline Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift ROSA

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Job description

Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 12-month contract.

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer to design, build, and support high-availability cloud infrastructure and automated delivery pipelines. In this role, you will take full ownership of both containerized and non-containerized workloads, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management automation to provision and maintain robust AWS environments. Working closely with cross-functional development, security, and operations teams, you will manage cloud container platforms, enforce least-privilege security controls, optimize infrastructure costs, and build reliable CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous, secure application delivery.

Advantages

• Dual Workload Focus: Extensive hands-on ownership across both containerized (ROSA/EKS) and non-containerized cloud workloads.
• Advanced Automation Stack: Deep architectural exposure designing Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, and GitOps pipelines.
• Enterprise AWS Scope: Multi-account AWS architecture leveraging the AWS Well-Architected Framework and native security tools.
• Predictable Onsite Synergy: Collaborate directly with engineering teams and technical leads in a focused, 5-day onsite workspace.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Architecture: Design, provision, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure—including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront—following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop, maintain, refactor, and version-control modular Terraform configurations to enable automated drift detection, policy enforcement, and repeatable infrastructure deployment.
• Configuration Management Automation: Author and maintain idempotent Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections to automate server configurations, dynamic inventory management, application deployments, and compliance enforcement across non-containerized environments.
• Container Platform Administration: Administer and operate Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, overseeing cluster upgrades, node scaling, Operator management, Helm charts, and containerized workload orchestration.
• CI/CD & GitOps Engineering: Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps) and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD) for declarative application and infrastructure delivery.
• Security & Compliance: Implement security controls, centralized secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager), least-privilege RBAC, NetworkPolicies, container security scanning, and automated guardrails (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub).
• Cost & Observability Optimization: Implement AWS cost optimization strategies (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, rightsizing) while configuring CloudWatch observability, logging, and monitoring metrics for critical platform services.
• Documentation & Support: Produce and update operational runbooks, architectural decision records (ADRs), and technical deployment specifications.

Qualifications

• Container & Non-Container Workloads: Extensive, proven hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing both containerized and non-containerized workloads in enterprise cloud environments (Strictly Required).
• Terraform & IaC Design: Extensive experience designing, building, refactoring, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform modules and remote backends (Strictly Required).
• Ansible Automation: Extensive experience authoring, maintaining, and integrating Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for automated server configuration and deployment (Strictly Required).
• AWS Core Services: Proven track record designing and managing core AWS infrastructure components (VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, CloudFront) (Strictly Required).
• OpenShift & ROSA Administration: Hands-on experience administering Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) or enterprise Kubernetes clusters, including scaling and upgrades (Strictly Required).
• CI/CD Pipeline Engineering: Strong background designing automated delivery pipelines using GitLab CI or Azure DevOps, alongside GitOps tools like ArgoCD.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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