HM Note: This contract role is remote, and candidates work remotely. Candidates must reside in Ontario, Canada. Candidate resumes must include first and last name, email and telephone contact information. This role commences April 1, 2026

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, Fastlane, BrowserStack, Codemagic etc., for mobile wallet and backend services, including signing, versioning, testing, and app store deployment workflows.
• Architect, deploy, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes (AKS/OpenShift) clusters/workloads, ensuring reliability, scalability, and secure multi‑environment operations.
• Build and manage containerized workloads using Docker/Podman, infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform/Ansible, and secure integrations with relational databases and event‑driven systems.
• Implement DevSecOps practices including SAST/DAST scanning, secrets management, certificate rotation, vulnerability remediation, and compliance with identity trust frameworks (PCTF, NIST, eIDAS) and organization cybersecurity policies.
• Conduct load testing, performance benchmarking, and continuous hardening of backend, wallet, and cloud components.
• Implement observability and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Log Analytics) and integrate crash analytics tools (Crashlytics, App Center) to drive stability and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, cybersecurity teams, and stakeholders to ensure cohesive delivery across wallet, agent, and platform components.
• Produce documentation such as deployment architectures, runbooks, procedures, and operational playbooks while mentoring engineers in cloud, Kubernetes, and DevOps best practices.

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

DevSecOps, CI/CD Automation & Engineering Quality – 35%

• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc., for backend services, including automated testing, container builds, artifact management, and deployment approvals.
• Implement load-testing and performance benchmarking using tools such as Locust or JMeter to validate system scalability under peak credential issuance and verification loads.
• Enforce SDLC, code quality, and DevOps best practices—including code reviews, secure Integrate DevSecOps practices into all CI/CD workflows, embedding security scanning, SAST/DAST, secret detection, and container image scanning into pipelines.
• Experience with scripting languages like Python and Bash
• Manage secure configuration of infrastructure including TLS certificate rotation, secret management, encryption policies, network segmentation, and hardened OS baselines.
• Work with teams to implement identity and access management, privileged access controls, threat modeling, and continuous compliance monitoring.
• Conduct regular infrastructure hardening, patching, library updates, dependency audits, and vulnerability remediation cycles for wallet, agent, and backend components.
• Ensure alignment with digital identity trust frameworks (PCTF, NIST, eIDAS) and enterprise cybersecurity policies.

Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering & Infrastructure-as-Code – 30%

• An expert in architecting, building, and maintaining Azure cloud infrastructure that supports the digital credential platform, ensuring high availability, resilience, and secure multi‑environment deployments.
• Build and manage containerized workloads using Docker/Podman, applying secure image management, registry automation, and runtime hardening.
• Design and operate Kubernetes production clusters (AKS/OpenShift), including workload orchestration, scaling policies, RBAC, network rules, and automated failover.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code using Terraform, Ansible, and related tooling to ensure consistent, auditable, and automated environment provisioning.
• Support backend components interacting with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) through secure connections and optimized queries.
• Operate and integrate event‑driven architectures, caching mechanism, job schedulers and asynchronous messaging systems.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure networking, VNETs, ingress controllers, firewalls, and identity integrations to support secure and compliant services.
• Proven experience designing modern architectural patterns to support delivery of complex IT solutions that are reliable, secure, responsive and scalable.
• Experience applying industry cloud and security standards and best practices to your work that can be adopted by others.

Observability, Monitoring & System Insights – 20%

• Implement and maintain observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Log Analytics, or equivalent tools, ensuring end‑to‑end visibility across services.
• Design and implement Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to gain visibility into production workloads deployed in the cloud*.*
• Define dashboards, alerting rules, incident playbooks, SLIs/SLOs, and health checks to support high‑availability identity workloads.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis and drive long‑term reliability improvements across cloud, container, and other infrastructure components.

Collaboration, Documentation & Agile Delivery – 10%

• Work closely with architects, developers, automation engineers, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise stakeholders to ensure cohesive solution delivery.
• Produce and maintain documentation including diagrams, deployment architectures, operational runbooks, method of procedures, and troubleshooting playbooks.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to planning, release coordination, and cross‑team technical alignment.
• Mentor team members in cloud engineering, DevOps automation, Kubernetes operations, and secure deployment practices.

Digital Credentials and Trust Services – 5%

• Demonstrated experienced with implementing (deployment and configuration) open-source OpenWallet Foundation products, including ACA-Py and its plugins.
• Has demonstrated understanding and experience with operating and supporting a digital credentials platform in a enterprise cloud based deployment.
• Has experience working with related Open-Source community.

Must Have:

• Please focus on the bolded technologies in the Experience and skill set requirements.