System Architect

Orion Innovation; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Innovation in Mississauga is seeking a System Architect to design, deploy, and govern scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across DevOps, security, and development teams.

The role requires strong leadership, cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), and hands-on scripting for automation, with coverage for on-call and off-hours support. Hybrid work model offered in Mississauga.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, install, configure and troubleshoot infrastructure and applications
• Deploy code and secure environments for infrastructure and applications
• Participate in Kanban and/or Scrum meetings to plan, prioritize, and estimate work
• Participate in an on-call rotation and be available to work off-hours and weekends.
• Work with Developers, Testers and Team members to troubleshoot specific infrastructure issues
• Enable higher-quality software services through DevOps tooling
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Monitor and enhance current Infrastructure and Applications for Stability, performance, and Efficiency
• Ensure designs and implementation are done in a secure manner

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Planning

Forecasting

Prioritization

Project Management

Design and Deploy

Leadership

Documentation

Scripting

SAFe

Training team

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

PMP or equivalent experience

Tools

GitLab

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Terraform

CloudFormation

OpenStack

AWS

GCP

Azure

RHEL

Windows servers

Artifactory

Nexus/JFrog

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

UrbanCode Deploy

Docker

Kubernetes

ELK

Splunk

Zabbix

Prometheus

Job description

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Job Title: System Architect

Location: MISSISSAUGA, with Hybrid work flexibility through the Client Office in Mississauga

Project Overview: The DevOps and DevEx CoE Infra and Platform Support Team is responsible for providing shared capabilities to teams across the client Organization. The team provides the following services:

• The Agile Practice Enablement leveraging the client's Agile Framework
• DevSecOps Enablement leveraging Client’s shared platforming to enable the 5’Cs of DevOps
• Secure SDLC Enablement
• Centralized Test Management / Automation Enablement

Role

To achieve our objectives as part of the DevOps & Quality Infrastructure and Platform Team, we are looking to secure resources to fill this role:

Has a strong interest in DevOps, CI/CD, designing, installing and supporting infrastructure and applications and is able to thoroughly troubleshoot issues. Technologies and concepts needed to be familiar with:

• Continuous Integration and Delivery (Gitlab or similar)
• Configuration scripting languages (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or similar)
• Infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, OpenStack or similar)
• Strong knowledge of at least one cloud service provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Strong Linux servers (RHEL) and Windows servers knowledge
• Admin knowledge of Artifactory (Nexus, JFrog), GitLab and Ansible, Urban Code Deploy, Jenkins, Jira and Confluence
• Expert networking knowledge or higher
• General Software Automation principles
• Containerization, Docker/K8S operation
• Planning and Forecasting
• Prioritization
• Project Management
• Design and deploy

Role and responsibilities:

• Design, build, install, configure and troubleshoot infrastructure and applications
• Deploy code and secure environments for infrastructure and applications
• Participate in Kanban and/or Scrum meetings to plan, prioritize, and estimate work
• Participate in an on-call rotation and be available to work off-hours and weekends.
• Work with Developers, Testers and Team members to troubleshoot specific infrastructure issues
• Enable higher-quality software services through DevOps tooling
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Monitor and enhance current Infrastructure and Applications for Stability, performance, and Efficiency
• Ensure designs and implementation are done in a secure manner

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• PMP or equivalent experience
• Design and Analysis experience
• Supporting and managing Linux operating system plus system administration and troubleshooting skills with a focus on performance tuning, security hardening and high availability
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as ELK, Splunk, Zabbix and Prometheus
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
• GIT experience or similar source control tools
• Familiarity with Agile Software Development processes.
• Highly innovative, flexible and self-directed.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Able to work in a SAFe manner
• Able to prioritize and self-manage workload
• Able to assist and train team members
• Leadership skills
• Documentation skills
• Scripting knowledge (bash, PowerShell, PHP, etc)
• Database knowledge (Postgres, Oracle)

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