Senior Software Developer, DevOps

Hootsuite; Waterloo; On-site; CAD 114,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media management company is seeking a Senior DevOps Developer to support development teams and enhance customer value through reliable, efficient solutions. You will design and automate tools while managing a secure cloud-based infrastructure. The ideal candidate possesses strong collaboration skills and a degree in Computer Science or Engineering. This full-time position is based in Waterloo, Canada with a pay range of CAD $114,000—$150,000.

Benefits

Health benefits

Flexible work hours

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role.
• Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching coworkers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software tools and automation.
• Participate in a flexible on-call rotation.
• Lead by owning project milestones and deliverables.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

SaaS product development

Linux systems administration

Collaboration and teamwork

Problem solving

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Infrastructure-as-code tools

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We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Developer who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will own and deliver in service of quarterly goals on the team. Based out of Canada (in provinces that comply with our legal hiring entities), you'll report to the Manager, Software Development, Dev Ops.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scriptsResponsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based Linux infrastructure
• Participate in a flexible on-call rotation
• Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features
• Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department
• Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks
• Design and build our infrastructure platform
• Identify and implement new platform features
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features
• Operate our developer experience and production application environments
• Diagnose and repair our distributed systems
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations
• Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work
• Enable development teams
• Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform
• Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with others across the organization to solve problems and build better processes, systems, and software
• Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos

What You’ll Need

A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact

Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers

Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale and an understanding of SaaS software development practice; Ideally you have experience working on a SaaS product

Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure

Experience with operating, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and a working knowledge of Linux systems administration, including troubleshooting system-level issues, networking (L3-L7) and basic monitoring is preferred

Collaboration and Teamwork : works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs

Creativity and Innovation : seek new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and / or solutions

Problem Solving : uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and proposes several possible solutions.

Resilience, Tolerance for Change / Ambiguity : can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

Who You Are

Solution seeker. You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked.

Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.

Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.

Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.

Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.

Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.

Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.

Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.

Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Canada Pay Range For This Role

114,000—$150,000 CAD

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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