DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Position: DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced DevOps / Cloud Engineer to design, build, and support cloud-based environments that enable the delivery of modern digital products. The successful candidate will be responsible for cloud infrastructure, automation, platform operations, security, observability, and CI/CD implementation while supporting both containerized and non-containerized workloads.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & AWS

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including:
  
• VPCs
  
• Subnets
  
• Security Groups
  
• IAM Policies
  
• EC2
  
• ECS
  
• EKS
  
• RDS
  
• S3
  
• Route 53
  
• CloudFront
  
• Architect multi-account AWS environments using AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
  
• Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including:
  
• Reserved Instances
  
• Savings Plans
  
• Rightsizing
  
• Implement and maintain:
  
• CloudTrail
  
• AWS Config
  
• GuardDuty
  
• Security Hub
  
• AWS Organizations SCPs
  

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Terraform Cloud)

• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations.
  
• Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, variable sets, and team access policies.
  
• Enforce IaC standards including:
  
• Module versioning
  
• Input/output conventions
  
• Documentation
  
• Implement drift detection and remediation workflows using Terraform Cloud run tasks and policy-as-code solutions.
  
• Lead Terraform code reviews and mentor team members on best practices.
  

Configuration Management (Ansible)

• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
  
• Manage Ansible inventories across dynamic cloud environments.
  
• Integrate Ansible automation with CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Utilize Ansible Vault for secure secrets management.
  
• Develop repeatable, idempotent automation that reduces manual effort and configuration drift.
  

Container Platform Administration

• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters.
  
• Perform cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
  
• Define and enforce:
  
• RBAC controls
  
• Network Policies
  
• Security Context Constraints (SCCs)
  
• Manage Operators, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays.
  
• Ensure cluster security alignment with organizational standards.
  

CI/CD Pipelines

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
  
• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
  
• Integrate security scanning and auditing tools into deployment pipelines.
  
• Promote shift-left testing practices.
  
• Maintain pipeline-as-code standards with peer-reviewed definitions.
  

Security & Compliance

• Embed security controls throughout infrastructure and deployment lifecycles.
  
• Implement secrets management solutions.
  
• Enforce least-privilege access controls.
  
• Support vulnerability management processes.
  
• Participate in incident response and remediation activities.
  

Observability & Reliability

• Build and maintain observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch.
  
• Define and monitor SLOs and SLIs.
  
• Lead incident response activities and root cause investigations.
  
• Produce and maintain operational documentation including runbooks and architectural decision records.
  

General Technical Requirements

• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  
• Experience supporting complex Linux environments including:
  
• CentOS
  
• Ubuntu
  
• CoreOS
  
• Experience with web technologies such as:
  
• LAMP
  
• Drupal
  
• Elasticsearch
  
• Experience using development and collaboration tools such as:
  
• JIRA
  
• Confluence
  
• Maven
  
• Jenkins
  
• Experience with scripting languages including:
  
• Python
  
• Bash
  
• PHP
  
• Java
  
• JavaScript
  
• Node.js
  
• Experience with version control and automation tools such as:
  
• Git
  
• Ansible
  
• Chef
  
• Puppet
  
• Knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
  
• Experience building and integrating APIs.
  
• Knowledge of web architecture, security standards, and industry best practices.
  
• Experience supporting mobile device management environments.
  

Must-Have Skills

• Extensive experience working with containerized and non-containerized workloads.
  
• Strong expertise designing and building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  
• Advanced experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and automation.
  
• Deep AWS infrastructure engineering experience.
  
• Experience operating Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).
  
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve customers in two ways, we provide:

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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.

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