DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior
About the role
Russell Tobin & Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.
Job ID: 26-19270
Job Title: DevOPS/Cloud Engineer Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Client: Public Sector Pay Rate: $65- $70/hr. CAD
Must Have
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced expertise in provisioning and managing AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK (using Python as well as NodeJS). CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Deep hands-on experience building, maintaining, and securing robust continuous integration and deployment pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins). Cloud Security & Governance: Strong expertise in AWS security best practices, IAM roles/policies, network security, and secure deployment of serverless architectures handling sensitive PHI. Experience managing cloud environments subject to strict healthcare compliance frameworks (e.g., PHIPA, HIPAA). Experience with Provincial Assets and supporting FHIR repositories, specifically Smile CDR and AWS HealthLake Experience working with the OpenText NetIQ IAM Responsibilities: Design, build and support cloud environments to create digital products Monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available Create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access).
Desired Skills
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional or AWS Certified Security - Specialty. Chaos Engineering / Cloud Resiliency Testing: Familiarity with using tools like AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to intentionally inject faults. Understanding of large-scale healthcare interoperability frameworks and provincial digital health asset directories.
Required Skills
Extensive experience designing, deploying, and managing complex environments in leading cloud platforms, with a strong focus on AWS. Proven experience provisioning cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. Experience deploying and managing scalable serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, API Gateway) and event-driven data flows. Experience maintaining complex Linux cloud environments and supporting modern web technologies and databases (e.g., Node.js, Elasticsearch). Knowledge of container-based virtualization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes/Amazon EKS). Integration experience in deploying, managing, and securing highly available APIs. Strong understanding of agile delivery models with deep experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines in AWS. Experience utilizing modern version control, build tools, and configuration management (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Ansible) to establish robust continuous integration and deployment mechanisms. Experience configuring and managing development workflow tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) to align infrastructure delivery with software development lifecycles. Proficiency in automation and scripting languages necessary for cloud management (e.g., Python, Bash, Node.js). Experience applying industry architectural, privacy, and security best practices, including automating infrastructure compliance and integrating security scanning directly into deployment pipelines. Experience implementing comprehensive centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk) to ensure cloud resiliency. Experience introducing suitable metrics for measuring deployment progress, system performance, and evaluating the overall quality of cloud environments. Experience creating and producing technical infrastructure specifications and determining operational feasibility for proposed architectures. Experience coordinating the usage, provisioning, and assignment of test and production environments with all cross-functional stakeholders. Experience leading cloud initiatives and providing technical guidance and mentorship to team members. A team player with a proven track record of meeting strict project deadlines.
Evaluation Criteria
- Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Automation : 30 Points
- Demonstrated experience managing AWS environments using Cloudformation and CDK
- Ability to script and automate complex infrastructure provisioning.
- CI/CD Pipeline Engineering : 30 Points
- Advanced experience designing and supporting automated build, test, and release pipelines.
- Expertise in deploying serverless code (Lambda, API Gateway).
- Expertise with AWS ECS, RDS and DynamoDB
- Cloud Security, Monitoring & Observability 20 Points
- Strong experience with NetIQ IAM and other enterprise solutions
- Using AWS security tools like SSM, Inspector and Security Hub to manage and patch security issues
- Healthcare Cloud Architecture & Messaging : 20 Points
- Experience configuring highly available environments for healthcare APIs.
- Experience with SMILE CDR and AWS HealthLake
- Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
- Knowledge of provisioning cloud messaging services (AWS Pinpoint.
Total Evaluation Criteria: 100 Points
As a certified minority-owned business, Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization.
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About Russell Tobin
Bring Top Talent With Your Company With Russell Tobin Headquartered in New York City with offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, India, and Singapore, Russell Tobin—a division of Pride Global—offers total staffing and recruitment solutions across a wide range of industries. Our team of highly skilled recruiters, sourcers, and subject-matter experts understand exactly how to find world-class candidates that will fit your company’s precise needs. Whether you need skilled professionals ready to deliver results in complex sectors such as banking or technology, or you’re looking to build out your own staffing efforts with a recruiter-for-recruiters (R4R) model, Russell Tobin can make the connections.
Our Bespoke Approach to Connecting Talent With Companies When an organization comes on board as a client, Russell Tobin takes the time to understand the company from the inside out. We work directly with you and your leadership team to create an end-to-end solution capable of handling the full recruitment lifecycle, tailored to your company’s needs and culture. After gathering the critical data we need to seek exactly the right candidates for your hiring strategy, our recruiters take over, using their deep understanding of your industry to build out talent pools and discover game-changing new hires.
A Proud Member of a Decidedly Diverse Network of Companies As part of Pride Global, Russell Tobin serves as one of industry’s only minority-owned payroll and staffing organizations, giving you the opportunity to satisfy Tier 1 diversity spending requirements. We’ve also taken this commitment much further through our Decidedly Diverse initiative, which seeks to create greater diversity, equity, and inclusion across our workforce and workplace, as well as the wider world in which we live. Learn more at https://decidedlydiverse.com.
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DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior
About the role
Russell Tobin & Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.
Job ID: 26-19270
Job Title: DevOPS/Cloud Engineer Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Client: Public Sector Pay Rate: $65- $70/hr. CAD
Must Have
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced expertise in provisioning and managing AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK (using Python as well as NodeJS). CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Deep hands-on experience building, maintaining, and securing robust continuous integration and deployment pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins). Cloud Security & Governance: Strong expertise in AWS security best practices, IAM roles/policies, network security, and secure deployment of serverless architectures handling sensitive PHI. Experience managing cloud environments subject to strict healthcare compliance frameworks (e.g., PHIPA, HIPAA). Experience with Provincial Assets and supporting FHIR repositories, specifically Smile CDR and AWS HealthLake Experience working with the OpenText NetIQ IAM Responsibilities: Design, build and support cloud environments to create digital products Monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available Create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access).
Desired Skills
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional or AWS Certified Security - Specialty. Chaos Engineering / Cloud Resiliency Testing: Familiarity with using tools like AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to intentionally inject faults. Understanding of large-scale healthcare interoperability frameworks and provincial digital health asset directories.
Required Skills
Extensive experience designing, deploying, and managing complex environments in leading cloud platforms, with a strong focus on AWS. Proven experience provisioning cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. Experience deploying and managing scalable serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, API Gateway) and event-driven data flows. Experience maintaining complex Linux cloud environments and supporting modern web technologies and databases (e.g., Node.js, Elasticsearch). Knowledge of container-based virtualization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes/Amazon EKS). Integration experience in deploying, managing, and securing highly available APIs. Strong understanding of agile delivery models with deep experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines in AWS. Experience utilizing modern version control, build tools, and configuration management (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Ansible) to establish robust continuous integration and deployment mechanisms. Experience configuring and managing development workflow tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) to align infrastructure delivery with software development lifecycles. Proficiency in automation and scripting languages necessary for cloud management (e.g., Python, Bash, Node.js). Experience applying industry architectural, privacy, and security best practices, including automating infrastructure compliance and integrating security scanning directly into deployment pipelines. Experience implementing comprehensive centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk) to ensure cloud resiliency. Experience introducing suitable metrics for measuring deployment progress, system performance, and evaluating the overall quality of cloud environments. Experience creating and producing technical infrastructure specifications and determining operational feasibility for proposed architectures. Experience coordinating the usage, provisioning, and assignment of test and production environments with all cross-functional stakeholders. Experience leading cloud initiatives and providing technical guidance and mentorship to team members. A team player with a proven track record of meeting strict project deadlines.
Evaluation Criteria
- Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Automation : 30 Points
- Demonstrated experience managing AWS environments using Cloudformation and CDK
- Ability to script and automate complex infrastructure provisioning.
- CI/CD Pipeline Engineering : 30 Points
- Advanced experience designing and supporting automated build, test, and release pipelines.
- Expertise in deploying serverless code (Lambda, API Gateway).
- Expertise with AWS ECS, RDS and DynamoDB
- Cloud Security, Monitoring & Observability 20 Points
- Strong experience with NetIQ IAM and other enterprise solutions
- Using AWS security tools like SSM, Inspector and Security Hub to manage and patch security issues
- Healthcare Cloud Architecture & Messaging : 20 Points
- Experience configuring highly available environments for healthcare APIs.
- Experience with SMILE CDR and AWS HealthLake
- Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
- Knowledge of provisioning cloud messaging services (AWS Pinpoint.
Total Evaluation Criteria: 100 Points
As a certified minority-owned business, Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization.
#RTA
Not the right fit? Search for DevOPS/Cloud Engineer jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Russell Tobin
Bring Top Talent With Your Company With Russell Tobin Headquartered in New York City with offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, India, and Singapore, Russell Tobin—a division of Pride Global—offers total staffing and recruitment solutions across a wide range of industries. Our team of highly skilled recruiters, sourcers, and subject-matter experts understand exactly how to find world-class candidates that will fit your company’s precise needs. Whether you need skilled professionals ready to deliver results in complex sectors such as banking or technology, or you’re looking to build out your own staffing efforts with a recruiter-for-recruiters (R4R) model, Russell Tobin can make the connections.
Our Bespoke Approach to Connecting Talent With Companies When an organization comes on board as a client, Russell Tobin takes the time to understand the company from the inside out. We work directly with you and your leadership team to create an end-to-end solution capable of handling the full recruitment lifecycle, tailored to your company’s needs and culture. After gathering the critical data we need to seek exactly the right candidates for your hiring strategy, our recruiters take over, using their deep understanding of your industry to build out talent pools and discover game-changing new hires.
A Proud Member of a Decidedly Diverse Network of Companies As part of Pride Global, Russell Tobin serves as one of industry’s only minority-owned payroll and staffing organizations, giving you the opportunity to satisfy Tier 1 diversity spending requirements. We’ve also taken this commitment much further through our Decidedly Diverse initiative, which seeks to create greater diversity, equity, and inclusion across our workforce and workplace, as well as the wider world in which we live. Learn more at https://decidedlydiverse.com.