Title : AppOps Senior Specialist - with AWS
Location : Onsite downtown Toronto - 3 days a week
Duration : 6-8 month contract
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Experience in AppOps with highly resilient and highly performant production workloads with AWS
- Expertise in using version control systems, such as Git, for managing codebases and collaboration.
- Expertise with scripting e.g. Power Shell, Python, and Ansible.
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with microservices and containerization (i.e., Docker).
- Experience using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, ServiceNow.
- Good understanding of AWS ECS core architectural concepts: clusters, task definitions, tasks, services, autoscaling (service and cluster auto scaling), and networking integration (such as with Elastic Load Balancing and AWS VPC).
- Strong knowledge of Agile development and Agile frameworks (e.g. JIRA, GitHub)
- Good understanding of software lifecycle including release planning, release processes, software testing, incident, problem and change management.
- Well versed in analyzing data, identifying and proactively mitigating risk to production systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and can seamlessly communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Nice to Have :
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Certification
- Experience with OpenShift Kubernetes
- Experience with DevOps concepts
- Good understanding of database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL
- AWS certifications
- Experience working with OpenShift
- Experience working in the Financial and Payments services.
- ITIL Certification
