Sr Devops Security Engineer

HRB; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior DevOps Security Engineer to elevate the automation of development pipelines across various cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. This role focuses on enhancing Infrastructure Services through automation and collaboration with development teams, making it essential that candidates possess extensive experience in cloud tooling and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Agile dev environment with a DevOps team.
• Expertise in managing cloud and virtualized servers.
• Direct experience with a major DevOps implementation.

Responsibilities

• Automate release deployments across all stacks.
• Develop effective tooling for deploy management.
• Ensure compliance with SOC1 and SOC2.

Skills

Cloud Tools

Automation

DevOps Practices

PowerShell

Continuous Delivery

Communication

Networking Protocols

Job description

Position Overview

The Senior DevOps Security Engineer plays a key role in automating our multiple development pipelines that flow into AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. This position will be responsible for changing the delivery of Infrastructure Services to a highly automated and efficient platform.

The ideal candidate is driven to learn and teach others and understands software development (Dev), but enjoys all the things necessary to improve deploying, monitoring, and operating production services (Ops).

Core Responsibilities

• Provide thought and subject matter leadership in DevOps, including managing multi-cloud infrastructure, advising development managers in structuring and sizing their plans, and raise red flags on faulty models or assumptions to prevent misguided implementation.
• Provides full stack tier 1-3 technical support to technology teams and other business units
• Introduces and integrates new technologies into existing computing environments.
• Automate release deployments across all stacks and optimize for scalability, efficiency, and security.
• Develop effective tooling to accelerate deploy and release management.
• Analyzes system logs and identifies potential issues with computer systems.
• Develop infrastructure standards and best practices with a proclivity towards automation.
• Designs and implements server-based solutions in a DevOps/high-availability environment.
• Configure, maintain and identify dependencies, potential conflicts, documenting process and tracking deployment schedules.
• Manage the configuration and up-time of all environments and micro-services.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available infrastructures.
• Build and implement monitoring and logging services.
• Work with application engineering to cultivate operational standards.
• Continually manage all cloud assets to ensure right-sized and minimize sprawl.
• Ensures all processes and technology meet all required SOC1, SOC2 compliance (at a security minimum) and delivers evidence and artifacts during audits.
• Design and implement a DR / remote service strategy.
• Performs routine audits of systems and software, as well as capacity planning and analysis.
• Interfaces with staff assigned to applications development to maintain familiarity with application development.
• Work with Infrastructure and Operations for the implementation of ITIL concepts and tools.
• Remain current on broad technology infrastructure changes in the industry, applying to cost-savings or competitive advantage.
• Intergrade with developers and configuration management team to implement best practices.
• Cross collaboration with development team in bug management and feature release and git branching strategy.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years working in an Agile dev environment as a member of a DevOps team.
• 5+ years’ experience managing/monitoring cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment.
• Direct experience engineering a major DevOps implementation.
• Experience with cloud tools EC2, RDS, S3, Directory Services, Route53, ELB, CloudFront, AMI
• Hands-on experience building automated Linux infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Strong experience with release pipelines, including blue/green deployments.
• PowerShell, Continuous Delivery pipeline – Docker, Jenkins, GitHub
• Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, SOC compliance, etc.
• Long-term thinker who is committed to excellence, teamwork, and the professional growth of their peers.
• Interpersonal skills to include effective verbal and written communication with staff, key leaders and other departments.