System Architect

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

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)