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DevOps SRE specialist

Jose Merciline
On-site
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
DevOps

Job Title : DevOps SRE specialist


Job Responsibilities:


The primary focus of this role is to develop best solutions and services to facilitate larger application teams to onboard to Devops tooling / methodologies, fostering for robust and reliable platform and pushing for operational excellence with the larger groups, such as –

o Create tooling, services to improve developer experience, facilitating for self-service and self-sufficiency

o Automate and streamline processes to reduce manual and toil works

o Understand, and promote for operational excellence culture by applying standardization, operational governances

o Set up proactive monitoring to ensure our environment stability, risk mitigation and cost reduction

o Work with production support team for infrastructure management, incident management, prod issue analysis and solution identification

o Assist with onboarding and facilitating the applications to the automated continuous pipeline framework and Devops tooling / methodologies

o Provide various administration, maintenance, migration, upgrade, and support activities on various Infrastructures (Tools, Database, Servers, scripts, etc.). Look out for opportunities to automate and streamline for Infrastructure management and migrations


Candidate would work closely with application teams, production support teams, and other horizontal services to drive, create, participate in and push for projects, tooling, initiatives and best practices on Devops, automation, SRE and Cloud.


Candidates must be well organized, have strong communication and interpersonal skills. The candidates should be detail orientated and possess strong analytical skills. They must demonstrate initiative, good judgement, be confident working independently and be passion for learning new technologies and practices and to promote in larger teams.


Primary Skills:

• 5+ years of overall IT experience

• 3+ years of experience of Devops or SRE experience.

• Experience in IT Operations/Support and Infrastructure management, migration, upgrade

• Experience and have good understanding in Reliability, Resiliency initiatives and Stability governance

• Proficiency with Python and Perl/Shell

• Proficiency with UNIX operations

• Good Knowledge of SQL with a RDBMS, preferably DB2 and Sybase

• Good Knowledge of Monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Splunk and JProfiler

• Experience with Agile methodologies, GIT and CICD


Desired Skills:

• Experience in both software development & system infrastructure

• Good knowledge of:

o Cloud-based environments such as: AWS or Azure

o Container platform: Docker

o Automation testing using tools such as: Junit, Maven/Gradle

o Visualization and analysis tools such as: Tableau