Lead DevOps Engineer - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
About the role
Job Description
This is a hands-on technical role ideal for someone passionate about infrastructure automation, scalable deployment practices, and operational excellence. You will work closely with SREs, developers, and platform engineers to support and evolve our platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to enable fast, secure, and repeatable deployments.
- Manage container orchestration and deployment via Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm .
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring to support application reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with SREs to build platform tooling that supports observability, diagnostics, and resiliency.
- Troubleshoot deployment issues and lead root cause analysis for platform-related incidents.
- Support and enhance deployment strategies including canary releases, blue/green deployments, and rollback mechanisms.
- Ensure systems are compliant with security and audit standards using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role.
- Proven expertise with Jenkins for building robust and secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS Kubernetes .
- Deep understanding of Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.
- Proficient with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Groovy) and version control (e.g., Git).
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Solid understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
- Experience working in Agile environments with cross-functional teams.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to cloud-native technologies like ArgoCD , Flux , or Kustomize .
- Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
- Background in SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
- Familiarity with security and compliance automation (e.g., CIS benchmarks, policy-as-code).
About Hire IT People, Inc
If you need IT Staffing or IT Consulting Services, please speak to an Accounts Manager at (800) 693-8939 Option 2. We serve Government agencies, Fortune 500 and leading mid-market companies across every Industry. Our candidate network includes thousands in our database and targeted networks including top social sites.
We gather information about your future hiring needs to perform a pro-active search, we mostly work with local candidates. Our cutting edge recruitment tools help minimize the complexities of hiring and reaching the right talent.
We can provide experienced IT Professionals for your IT Projects covering most Technologies and roles Read More...
Our Account managers and professional recruiters will communicate and work with your IT hiring managers. We use our databases, latest tools, and social media in finding and building relationships with top-notch IT professionals.
Lead DevOps Engineer - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
About the role
Job Description
This is a hands-on technical role ideal for someone passionate about infrastructure automation, scalable deployment practices, and operational excellence. You will work closely with SREs, developers, and platform engineers to support and evolve our platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to enable fast, secure, and repeatable deployments.
- Manage container orchestration and deployment via Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm .
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring to support application reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with SREs to build platform tooling that supports observability, diagnostics, and resiliency.
- Troubleshoot deployment issues and lead root cause analysis for platform-related incidents.
- Support and enhance deployment strategies including canary releases, blue/green deployments, and rollback mechanisms.
- Ensure systems are compliant with security and audit standards using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role.
- Proven expertise with Jenkins for building robust and secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS Kubernetes .
- Deep understanding of Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.
- Proficient with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Groovy) and version control (e.g., Git).
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Solid understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
- Experience working in Agile environments with cross-functional teams.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to cloud-native technologies like ArgoCD , Flux , or Kustomize .
- Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
- Background in SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
- Familiarity with security and compliance automation (e.g., CIS benchmarks, policy-as-code).
About Hire IT People, Inc
If you need IT Staffing or IT Consulting Services, please speak to an Accounts Manager at (800) 693-8939 Option 2. We serve Government agencies, Fortune 500 and leading mid-market companies across every Industry. Our candidate network includes thousands in our database and targeted networks including top social sites.
We gather information about your future hiring needs to perform a pro-active search, we mostly work with local candidates. Our cutting edge recruitment tools help minimize the complexities of hiring and reaching the right talent.
We can provide experienced IT Professionals for your IT Projects covering most Technologies and roles Read More...
Our Account managers and professional recruiters will communicate and work with your IT hiring managers. We use our databases, latest tools, and social media in finding and building relationships with top-notch IT professionals.