Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Work Location: 222 Jarvis St, L1X 0C8, Toronto, Ontario, Hybrid Estimated Start Date: 2025-08-25

Estimated End Date: 2026-03-31

#Business Days: 163.00

Extension : 84.00

Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day

Security Level: CRJMC

Must Haves A DevOps specialist in production support ensures seamless system reliability by rapidly diagnosing and remediating issues, optimizing infrastructure and automation, and driving continuous improvements through collaboration and data-driven recommendations.

• Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis (RCA) – Quickly diagnose production issues, identify underlying causes, and recommend remediation strategies.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise – Deep understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, security, scaling, and resilience.
• CI/CD & Automation – Proficiency in building robust pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and automated recovery workflows.
• Monitoring, Observability & Performance Tuning – able to optimize systems for reliability.
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement – Works with cross-functional teams to propose fixes, lead postmortems, and enhance processes and architectures.

Nice To Have

• Prior Development experience - Azure (CI/CD), Java, Microservices, Kubernetes (AKS), Containers, SQL Server, Logic Apps, Power Platform

Description Deliverables for Sr. Software Developer:

• Design, build, develop and administer CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps to support continuous development and deployment of modular cloud-based systems.
• Monitor and assess the performance of applications in Azure cloud environment to ensure solutions are running as expected. Identify, analyze, and resolve application deployment issues.
• Implementing automation for tasks like code integration, testing, deployment, and infrastructure management.
• Design, develop and test the automation solution using Containerized Microservices, JEE, Spring Boot, API, Azure Logic Apps, Power Automate, Database, React/Angular, and integrating with other various systems using API (REST/SOAP).
• Document the development tasks and their duration, align with management, and finalize.
• Create and execute test plans including performance testing of the solution.
• Develop, document, and implement application process monitoring procedures.
• Support production operational activities.
• Document the comprehensive written technical knowledge transfer plan and conduct knowledge transfer to EFP technical staff throughout the assignment.

Experience And Skill Set Requirements DevOps Experiences - 25%

• Demonstrated 5+ years’ experience in setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as Azure DevOps, pipeline or similar tools.
• Demonstrated 5+ years’ experience in build tools like Git, Kubernetes, Maven, Docker for continuous integration.
• Demonstrated 5+ years’ experience in container management and orchestration to automate application deployment, application scaling/clustering, monitoring and others.
• Demonstrated 5+ years’ experience in integration experience in building and using APIs or other integration endpoints.
• Demonstrated experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards and best practices.

JAVA & Webservices, Cloud Computing Experiences - 45%

• Demonstrated 10+ years’ experience in designing and developing secure RESTful/Soap APIs web services and microservices with Java/JEE, Spring Framework, SQL/NoSQL database, Message Queue, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in developing frontend applications using REACT/Angular, JSON, HTML/CSS/XML/XPath to build complex and efficient web applications.
• Demonstrated experience and skills to design, develop and maintain microservices-based backend systems, containerize, and deploy applications using Docker and orchestrate them with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Good knowledge of DevOps pipeline, IAM, OAuth, authentication, and authorization.
• Has Experience in developing Java applications that follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) at the AA level.

RPA/ML and Microsoft Low-Code Experience - 20%

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with AI, LLM and Machine Learning, such as Azure Document Intelligence, Cloud Foundry, OpenAI, Cognitive Search etc.
• Demonstrated knowledge of OCR, information extraction/classification, and experience in training AI models based on business requirements.
• Demonstrated 5+ experience in developing, testing, and implementing complex system solutions using Microsoft Power Automate Robotics Process Automation (RPA).
• Demonstrated experience and skills in using Logic Apps, Power Automate flows and desktop flows to build end-to-end RPA/ML automation solutions.
• Demonstrated experience and skills to integrate with other systems and services to implement end-to-end solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in documenting Solution Design Documents (SDD) based on business requirements and planning and executing the development tasks.

Testing and Reporting - 5%

• Demonstrated experience in developing and executing test scenarios to perform unit, integration, and performance testing.
• Expert in leveraging Postman/ReadyAPI/Soap UI/JMeter tools to conduct test cases or scenarios.
• Demonstrated experience in using Power BI to pull information out and generate reports for a different purpose.

Communication and Teamwork - 5%

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with IT/ Business throughout the Software Development Life Cycle and production support.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
• When requested, the consultant shall establish a communication and reporting process that is acceptable to the Cluster/Ministry/Organization. The objective of this process is to ensure an effective flow of communications among all project stakeholders on the progress of deliverables and milestones; timely identification of issues to facilitate resolution/decisions.

Note

• Hybrid: 3 Days onsite / 2 days remote

Eligibility and Application Steps If you are enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity, we kindly request you to provide the following documents: hrsmss@smsoftconsulting.com

Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.

• Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
• Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
• Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
• Visa Status (Mandatory)
• LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)

Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above. Feel free to share with your network or tag someone who fits for this role! If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to call or text at (647) 408-1348.