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The Senior DevOps Engineer is the architect of our cloud-native ecosystem. This role focuses on maximizing engineering velocity through sophisticated automation, impeccable system reliability, and advanced Kubernetes orchestration. As a senior member of the technical team, this individual takes full ownership of the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring that the platform is secure, scalable, and optimized for high-performance critical business applications. What You'll be Doing Expert Kubernetes Orchestration & Management Cluster Architecture: Designs, deploys, and maintains production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or self-managed) across multiple environments. Workload Optimization: Manages complex scheduling, resource quotas, and horizontal/vertical scaling to ensure cost-efficiency and performance. Networking & Connectivity: Configures and maintains advanced networking components, including Ingress Controllers, Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and CNI plugins. Storage & Persistence: Implements and manages persistent storage solutions (CSI) for stateful applications, ensuring data integrity and high availability. Upgrades & Lifecycle: Executes seamless cluster upgrades and maintenance with zero downtime, utilizing blue/green or canary deployment strategies. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation Foundation as Code: Provisions and manages 100% of the cloud infrastructure through IaC frameworks like Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi. Module Development: Creates reusable, version-controlled infrastructure modules that allow developers to provision resources in a standardized, self-service manner. Configuration Management: Implements automated configuration management to maintain consistency across distributed systems. Advanced CI/CD & Developer Experience Pipeline Engineering: Builds and optimizes sophisticated CI/CD pipelines that automate the entire path to production, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and deployment gates. GitOps Implementation: Drives the adoption of GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) to ensure the cluster state is always synchronized with the source of truth in Git. Local Development Flow: Optimizes the "inner loop" of development, providing tools and environments that allow engineers to test Kubernetes-native applications locally or in ephemeral cloud environments. Security, Compliance & Observability Cluster Hardening: Implements rigorous security protocols, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Network Policies, and Pod Security Standards. Compliance and Governance: Ensures all infrastructure meets applicable regulatory standards through automated audit logging and encryption at rest/in transit. Full-Stack Visibility: Designs and maintains a comprehensive observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, or similar) to provide deep insights into cluster health and application performance. Incident Response: Serves as a primary technical lead for infrastructure-related incidents, performing deep-dive root cause analysis and implementing automated preventions. Observability, SRE & Performance Analysis Observability Architecture: Designs and scales enterprise observability solutions, leveraging metrics, logging, and tracing to provide comprehensive visibility into platform health, performance, and reliability. SLO/SLI Engineering: Partners with product and engineering teams to define meaningful Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), establishing error budgets that balance velocity with reliability. Proactive Alerting & Self-Healing: Develops sophisticated, non-fatiguing alerting strategies and implements automated remediation scripts to resolve infrastructure anomalies. Cost Observability: Implements FinOps tooling to provide granular visibility into cluster spend, attributing costs to specific teams, projects, or epics. Chaos Location Hamilton , ON Work location On site Salary $ 150,000 to $ 180,000 YEAR annually Terms of employment Permanent employment Full time Starts as soon as possible vacancies 1 vacancy Source CareerBeacon #209b26c2-806d-47e9-8515-77cf20f55d6b Various locations Hamilton, ON
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
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