DevOps Cloud Engineer Contract

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Client: Government
Location: Toronto (hybrid)
Type: Contractor
Role: DevOps Cloud Engineer
Term: 219 working days + extension
Rate: Open
Start date: 2/3 weeks
Req ID: 5786
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Requirements: What you’ll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications
Deliverables:

Evaluation Criteria

Technical knowledge – 30%

• 10+ years of experience in systems, data communications, and telecommunications including experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux V7+, UNIX Solaris V10, and Mainframe IMS Connect, system software, and system tools
• Extensive experience in WebLogic V12, WebSphere V9, and Informatic V10 configuration, customization, and upgrades
• Working experience in DevOps toolsets in Azure Cloud, including but not limited to Docker, Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and OpenShift
• Working knowledge and experience in git, including branching and merging strategies (e.g. git-flow), collaboration via pull requests, and practicing GitOps
• Working knowledge and experience with designing and implementing infrastructure as code build automation using Terraform and immutable infrastructure with Ansible and Packer
• Working knowledge and experience implementing instances/applications performance tuning, storage/capacity management, database migration/upgrade, and backup/disaster recovery (DR) strategies
• Working knowledge and experience clustering Load Balancers and Firewall configuration, and accomplishing the same in Azure Cloud
• RUS transformation experience with technologies (J2EE, Java) and web technologies

Support and troubleshooting – 25%

• Highly skilled problem solving, reasoning, and troubleshooting experience to provide advice and resolve data recovery issues in a multi-platform environment
• Support for pre-production and production systems on a 7/24/365 basis for applications and middleware
• Experience conducting system monitoring, performance, and data integrity in accordance with ITIL standards

Operations – 25%

• Experience supporting enterprise business and infrastructure projects
• Experience in Incident Management and Change Management
• The ability to perform performance analysis
• Experience in resource usage tracking and analysis
• Ability to perform log searches for problem solving, audit, and performance checking
• Experience in emergency problem resolution
• Ability to provide ad-hoc reporting

Interpersonal and communication skills – 15%

• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills with experience making presentations, liaising with staff to resolve issues, and working as part of a technical multi-disciplinary team
• Based on management’s requests, the ability to provide support to internal and external clients on a 7/24 basis
• Experience coordinating and providing leadership to staff and stakeholders

Public sector experience – 5%

• Working knowledge of Transportation Safety architecture, applications, databases, and systems

Must Haves:

• 10+ years of experience in systems, data communications, and telecommunications including experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux V7+, UNIX Solaris V10, and Mainframe IMS Connect, system software, and system tools
• Extensive experience in WebLogic V12, WebSphere V9, and Informatic V10 configuration, customization, and upgrades
• Working experience in DevOps toolsets in Azure Cloud, including but not limited to Docker, Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and OpenShift

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply for this opportunity by using the Apply button or sending your resume directly to careers@wirehead.com

We thank all candidates for their interest but advise that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted directly. Rest assured that your resume will be kept on our database and will be considered for all future opportunities.

***This opportunity is in Toronto; preference will be given to local candidates. Wirehead does not offer a relocation package. We encourage you continue to refer to our Job listing page as new opportunities become available and updated on a regular basis. Thank you again for your interest in Wirehead!