Senior Infrastructure Engineer

LotusFlare; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company specializing in cloud solutions in Toronto is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of experience with cloud-native technologies and strong scripting skills. Responsibilities include building automation for the backend and optimizing performance. Perks include a competitive salary, paid lunch, and annual bonuses.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Paid lunch

Yearly bonus

Company stock options

Training and workshops

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build out automation and orchestration for the containerized backend.
• Drive efficiency, scaling, and self-healing capabilities of infrastructure.
• Identify performance offenders and optimize the platform.

Skills

Cloud-native technologies

Scripting and automation skills

Networking and network security knowledge

Education

BA / BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Kafka

ELK stack

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Redis

Cassandra

Job description

Responsibilities

• Build out automation and orchestration for the high available 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 network

Job Requirements

• 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.