Senior CloudOps Developer

Thales; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 89,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental

RRSP matching

Vacation days and sick leave

Employee discounts

Well-being program

Job summary

Thales in Vancouver, BC, is seeking a Senior CloudOps Developer who bridges development and operations to design, automate, and operate the cloud platform powering the CipherTrust Data Security Platform Service. This role combines strong software engineering and operational skills to ensure reliable, scalable, and observable systems are delivered and maintained in production.

You will design, deploy, and maintain the platform with a focus on security, performance, and resilience, participate in

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or CloudOps
• 3+ years building and operating cloud-native platforms
• Experience deploying and supporting cloud-based applications
• Ability to think in a Cloud Services manner
• Experience with orchestration toolsets

Responsibilities

• Support the full application and infrastructure stack for high availability and security
• Design, implement, and maintain observability and monitoring with dashboards
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
• Lead or support disaster recovery planning and testing
• Define and improve SLOs/SLIs to match business goals
• Produce monthly operations reports on health and incidents
• Use Datadog to analyze logs and configure metrics and alerts
• Develop and maintain automation and internal tooling
• Deploy and maintain service layers, safely implementing changes
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to review designs
• Review peer changes for quality and compliance
• Document automation and operational procedures for maintainability

Skills

CloudOps

DevOps

SRE

Automation

Observability

Monitoring

On-call support

Education

Bachelor's / Master’s degree in computer science

Tools

Datadog

PagerDuty

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Kubernetes

OpenShift

VMware

Job description

Location: Vancouver - Pender St, Canada

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

This is a Hybrid position located in Vancouver, BC

Position Summary

A Senior CloudOps Developer bridges development and operations to design, automate, and operate the cloud platform that powers our CipherTrust Data Security Platform Service. This role combines strong software engineering and operational skills to ensure reliable, scalable, and observable systems are delivered and maintained in production.

Essential Functions

• Support the full application and infrastructure stack to ensure the CipherTrust Data Security Platform Service remains highly available, secure, performant, and reliable.


• Design, implement, and maintain observability, monitoring, and synthetic testing to detect issues early and validate service behavior end-to-end.


• Participate in on-call rotation and provide timely incident response through PagerDuty and related operational processes.


• Lead or support disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution to ensure business continuity and recovery readiness.


• Define, track, and continuously improve SLOs/SLIs to align platform reliability with business expectations.


• Produce clear and actionable monthly operations reports summarizing service health, trends, incidents, and improvement opportunities.


• Leverage Datadog to analyze logs, create and maintain monitoring metrics, and configure dashboards and alerts that support CloudOps activities and platform reliability.


• Analyze operational data and platform metrics to identify performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and opportunities for automation or optimization.


• Design, build, and maintain automation and internal tooling to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability across the CloudOps environment.


• Deploy, configure, and maintain application and platform layers of the service, ensuring changes are implemented safely and in accordance with standards.


• Collaborate with architects, developers, and other technical stakeholders to review designs, provide feedback, and help shape scalable and resilient solutions.


• Review peer code and infrastructure changes to ensure quality, maintainability, and compliance with team standards and best practices.


• Develop, test, and document automation and platform components, including runbooks and operational procedures, to support long-term maintainability and operational readiness.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or CloudOps, with 3+ years of building and operating cloud-native platforms
  
  
  
  • Development Application side Experience in deploying and supporting cloud-based applications.
  
  
  • Ability to think in a Cloud Services manner.
  
  
  • Experience with orchestration toolsets.
  
  
  
  


• Operations
  
  
  
  • Understanding of operational concepts like change management, on call rotations, escalations, uptime, etc...
  
  
  • Experience in managing production systems on a very large scale.
  
  
  • Experience working with virtualization: VMWare, Hyper‑V, etc...
  
  
  • Experience working with DB’s: MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Cassandra, etc...
  
  
  
  


• Software Development Experience with cloud and server architecture
  
  
  
  • Experience with REST APIs, microservices development and deployment.
  
  
  • Experience with security‑relevant protocols
  
  
  
  


• OS
  
  
  
  • Deep understanding of one of the major OS families (Linux or Windows)
  
  
  
  


• Security
  
  
  
  • Conscious of security concerns
  
  
  • Adhere to security best practices from design to implementation and operations
  
  
  
  


• Automation
  
  
  
  • Experience with automation technologies (Terraform, Cloud formation, Ansible)
  
  
  • Experience with CaaS or PaaS technologies (K8s, OpenShift, etc...)
  
  
  • Experience with IaaS technologies (OpenStack, Azure Stack, etc...)
  
  
  
  


• Public and Private Cloud
  
  
  
  • Experience with Public cloud hosting (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
  
  
  • Experience with Private hosting (Private data centers, Rackspace, etc...)
  
  
  
  


• Interaction & Communication
  
  
  
  • Good social interaction with the immediate team as well as other teams
  
  
  • Ability to work in an extremely geographically distributed company
  
  
  • Excellent communication skills across multiple mediums.
  
  
  
  


• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science

The anticipated TTC range for this role is 88,716.49 - 118,288.65 - 151,679.14 CAD Annual

The Company reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Why Join Us?

Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well‑Being program.


• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.


• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.


• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.


• Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.