Senior Infrastructure Engineer

LotusFlare; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Toronto is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer to enhance their cloud-native digital commerce platform. The role involves collaborating with software engineers to secure applications and infrastructure, driving automation and optimization efforts. Candidates should have over 6 years of experience with cloud technologies and strong scripting skills. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Paid lunch

Yearly bonus

Company stock options

Training and workshops

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with a broad range of cloud-native technologies.
• Strong skills in scripting and automation with languages like Python or Go.
• Experience with continuous build and delivery stacks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with application software engineers to secure applications.
• Drive efficiency and self-healing capabilities of the infrastructure.
• Implement tools to increase automation in infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud-native technology expertise

Scripting and automation skills

Networking knowledge

Experience with NoSQL databases

Education

BA / BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

LotusFlare has always been about making an impact through software products and changing industries for the better by simplifying technology to improve customer experience. Founded by the team that helped Facebook reach over one billion mobile users, LotusFlare was born out of a vision to make the mobile internet accessible and affordable to people in parts of the world who often did not have access. From this initial work, LotusFlare’s mission now is to design, build and continuously advance a cloud-native digital commerce and monetization platform that simplifies technology and customer experience to deliver valuable outcomes to enterprises. This platform provides the software product foundation for the company’s main offering, the LotusFlare Digital Network Operator Cloud. LotusFlare DNO Cloud is a digital commerce and monetization managed service that serves as a digital BSS to deliver valuable business outcomes for communications and media services providers.

As Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer on our team, you are responsible to collaborate with our application software engineers and secure the applications, data, and cloud infrastructure of the company. You should also provide technical direction within the team, assist peers, and mentor junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Build out automation and orchestration for the high-availability containerized backend
• Drive efficiency, scaling, and self-healing capabilities of our infrastructure
• Identify performance offenders and work with engineers to optimize the platform
• Use cloud-native technologies, public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud, operating systems (Linux), container and orchestration platforms based on Docker and Kubernetes and application environments (NGINX, NoSQL persistence solutions), with an emphasis to build tools for automation and orchestration of our workloads
• Implement tools to increase the level of automation in our infrastructure
• Analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues
• Implement best practices in building, profiling, and monitoring high-performance high-availability solutions providing mission-critical real-time functionality on the control plane of mobile and fixed networks

Qualifications

• BA / BS in Computer Science or other equivalent technical disciplines
• 6+ years experience with using a broad range of cloud-native technologies and stacks (e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Strong scripting and automation skills, implementing in Python, Go, and similar languages
• Continuous build and continuous delivery stacks including artifact and container repositories, container runtimes based on Kubernetes
• Developer tools for source control, static code analysis, and test automation frameworks
• Linux kernel experience with good networking and network security knowledge
• Cloud-native infrastructure stack experience with tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with metrics and logging solutions (Prometheus, Kafka, or ELK stack)
• Experience with NoSQL databases like Redis or Cassandra
• Ability to maintain cloud-based solutions with an emphasis on cloud security

Perks

• Competitive salary package
• Paid lunch
• Yearly bonus
• Company stock options
• Training and workshops