Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

CIRA; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CIRA is seeking aSenior DevOps Specialist to design, build and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across multiple environments. You will manage EKS clusters, implement GitOps with Argo CD, and advance observability, security and automation.

This role offers a hybrid setup with opportunities to collaborate across product, security and development teams in Ottawa and beyond. You will own complex platform initiatives, mentor peers, and contribute to disaster recovery and on‑call incident

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, particularly EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, load balancing and cloud networking.
• Extensive experience operating and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments.
• Strong proficiency with Terraform, infrastructure as code practices and Helm.
• GitOps and deployment automation using Argo CD or Flux.
• Observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or equivalents.
• Linux administration, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS) and troubleshooting.
• Scripting in Bash and/or Python.
• CI/CD, cloud security and infrastructure automation.
• Experience operating production infrastructure and collaborating across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across environments using Terraform.
• Manage lifecycle of EKS clusters and platform components, including upgrades, networking, storage, security, autoscaling.
• Collaborate with development teams to support Kubernetes deployments and improve workflows with Helm and Argo CD.
• Design observability solutions with metrics, logging and alerting to improve reliability and cost efficiency.
• Build reusable platform tooling and automate deployment workflows to enhance developer experience.
• Own and deliver complex infra initiatives from design to production deployment.
• Implement automated security controls, IAM, secrets management and best practices.
• Support on‑premises and hybrid cloud, including DR and business continuity.
• Mentor teammates and document knowledge.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for incident response.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud engineering

Site reliability

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

Observability

Bash/Python

CI/CD

Tools

AWS

EKS

EC2

IAM

VPC

S3

Load balancers

Networking

Job description

CIRA is seeking aSenior DevOps Specialist to design, build and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across multiple environments. You will manage EKS clusters, implement GitOps with Argo CD, and advance observability, security and automation.

This role offers a hybrid setup with opportunities to collaborate across product, security and development teams in Ottawa and beyond. You will own complex platform initiatives, mentor peers, and contribute to disaster recovery and on‑call incident