Senior Java DevOps Engineer

Cleo Consulting; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleo Consulting in Toronto seeks a Senior Java DevOps Engineer for the Government Services Integration Cluster. This contract runs 2026-09-25 to 2027-09-24 with five days onsite at 222 Jarvis St.

You will design, build and operate CI/CD pipelines, containerize applications, and work with Azure/AWS/GCP to ensure reliability and performance. Responsibilities include incident response, RCA, automation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve architectures and processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps experience in production support and CI/CD
• 10+ years in Java/JEE, REST/SOAP APIs, microservices
• Strong container orchestration with Kubernetes (AKS) and Docker
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and IaC tooling
• Familiarity with monitoring, incident response, RCA, and automation

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and administer CI/CD pipelines for modular cloud-based systems
• Monitor applications in cloud environments and diagnose deployment issues
• Automate tasks around code integration, testing, deployment, and infrastructure management
• Develop and maintain microservices-based backend systems and containerized deployments
• Lead postmortems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve processes

Skills

DevOps

Java/JEE

REST APIs

CI/CD

Incident response

Tools

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Power Automate

Job description

Assignment: RQ11605 - Software Developer - Senior

Job Title: Senior Java DevOps Engineer

Requisition (SS): RQ11605

Start Date: 2026-09-25

Client: Government Services Integration Cluster

End Date: 2027-09-24

Office Location: 222 Jarvis St., Toronto, Ontario

Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster

Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

# Business Days: 250.00

5 days onsite

Must Have:

• A DevOps specialist in production support ensures seamless system reliability by rapidly diagnosing and remediating issues, optimizing infrastructure and automation, and driving continuous improvements through collaboration and data-driven recommendations.
• Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Quickly diagnose production issues, identify underlying causes, and recommend remediation strategies.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise Deep understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, security, scaling, and resilience.
• CI/CD & Automation Proficiency in building robust pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and automated recovery workflows.
• Monitoring, Observability & Performance Tuning able to optimize systems for reliability.
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement Works with cross-functional teams to propose fixes, lead postmortems, and enhance processes and architectures.

Nice to Have:

• Prior Development experience - Azure (CI/CD), Java, Microservices, Kubernetes (AKS), Containers, SQL Server, Logic Apps, Power Platform

Description

Deliverables for Sr. Software Developer:

• Design, build, develop and administer CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps to support continuous development and deployment of modular cloud-based systems.
• Monitor and assess the performance of applications in Azure cloud environment to ensure solutions are running as expected. Identify, analyze, and resolve application deployment issues.
• Implementing automation for tasks like code integration, testing, deployment, and infrastructure management.
• Design, develop and test the automation solution using Containerized Microservices, JEE, Spring Boot, API, Azure Logic Apps, Power Automate, Database, React/Angular, and integrate with other various systems using API (REST/SOAP).
• Document the development tasks and their duration, align with management, and finalize.
• Create and execute test plans including performance testing of the solution.
• Develop, document, and implement application process monitoring procedures.
• Support production operational activities.
• Document the comprehensive written technical knowledge transfer plan and conduct knowledge transfer to EFP technical staff throughout the assignment.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

DevOps Experiences - 25%

• Demonstrated 5+ years experience in setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as Azure DevOps, pipeline, or similar tools.
• Demonstrated 5+ years' experience in build tools like Git, Kubernetes, Maven, Docker for continuous integration.
• Demonstrated 5+ years' experience in container management and orchestration to automate application deployment, application scaling/clustering, monitoring, and others.
• Demonstrated 5+ years' experience in integration experience in building and using APIs or other integration endpoints.
• Demonstrated experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards, and best practices.

JAVA & Webservices, Cloud Computing Experiences - 45%

• Demonstrated 10+ years' experience in designing and developing secure RESTful/Soap APIs web services and microservices with Java/JEE, Spring Framework, SQL/NoSQL database, Message Queue, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in developing frontend applications using REACT/Angular, JSON, HTML/CSS/XML/XPath to build complex and efficient web applications.
• Demonstrated experience and skills to design, develop and maintain microservices-based backend systems, containerize, and deploy applications using Docker and orchestrate them with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Good knowledge of DevOps pipeline, IAM, OAuth, authentication, and authorization.
• Has Experience in developing Java applications that follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) at the AA level.

RPA/ML and Microsoft Low-Code Experience - 20%

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with AI, LLM and Machine Learning, such as Azure Document Intelligence, Cloud Foundry, OpenAI, Cognitive Search etc.
• Demonstrated knowledge of OCR, information extraction/classification, and experience in training AI models based on business requirements.
• Demonstrated 5+ experience in developing, testing, and implementing complex system solutions using Microsoft Power Automate Robotics Process Automation (RPA).
• Demonstrated experience and skills in using Logic Apps, Power Automate flows and desktop flows to build end-to-end RPA/ML automation solutions.
• Demonstrated experience and skills to integrate with other systems and services to implement end-to-end solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in documenting Solution Design Documents (SDD) based on business requirements and planning and executing the development tasks.

Testing and Reporting - 5%

• Demonstrated experience in developing and executing test scenarios to perform unit, integration, and performance testing.
• Expert in leveraging Postman/ReadyAPI/Soap UI/JMeter tools to conduct test cases or scenarios.
• Demonstrated experience in using Power BI to pull information out and generate reports for a different purpose.

Communication and Teamwork - 5%

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with IT/ Business throughout the Software Development Life Cycle and production support.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
• When requested, the consultant shall establish a communication and reporting process that is acceptable to the Cluster/Ministry/Organization. The objective of this process is to ensure an effective flow of communications among all project stakeholders on the progress of deliverables and milestones; timely identification of issues to facilitate resolution/decisions.