DevOps Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

Design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high availability and reliability. Focus on automation, observability, and incident response to optimize production system performance.

Job details

Pay Range: CAD 70-75/hr We are seeking an experienced DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure and application environments. The role will focus on cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement of production systems. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments. Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar technologies. Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools. Automate application deployments, infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational processes. Implement and manage Kubernetes and containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and related technologies. Establish and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk, Datadog, or New Relic. Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to improve system reliability, availability, and performance. Participate in 24x7 production support, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis (RCA) for critical systems. Develop automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce manual operational effort and improve system resilience. Identify performance bottlenecks and implement solutions for capacity planning, scalability, availability, and disaster recovery. Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, secrets, IAM, and production environments. Collaborate with Software Engineering, QA, Security, Cloud, Network, and Product teams to improve application reliability and deployment processes. Establish and maintain backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability strategies. Manage source control, branching strategies, release management, and deployment governance using Git-based platforms. Continuously improve infrastructure efficiency, reliability, automation, and cloud cost optimization. Document architecture, operational procedures, runbooks, incident reports, and troubleshooting processes. Required Skills 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering. Strong experience with Linux/Unix administration, networking, system troubleshooting, and production environments. Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP. Strong knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code. Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines. Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Proficiency with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages. Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, or New Relic. Strong understanding of Git, branching, release management, and automated deployment practices. Experience with incident management, problem management, RCA, and production support. Understanding of SRE principles, SLI/SLO/SLA, error budgets, availability, scalability, and reliability engineering. Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure DevOps practices. Preferred Skills Experience with AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or Google GKE. Experience with Helm, Argo CD, Flux, or GitOps. Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps. Knowledge of Ansible, Packer, Vault, Consul, or similar automation tools. Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other distributed systems. Familiarity with ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Jira, or other ITSM/incident-management platforms. Experience implementing zero-downtime deployments, blue/green deployments, canary releases, and automated rollback strategies. Knowledge of DevSecOps, vulnerability scanning, container security, and cloud compliance.

What you’ll do

Design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high availability and reliability. Focus on automation, observability, and incident response to optimize production system performance.

Requirements

Requires over 5 years of experience in DevOps or SRE with strong proficiency in cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, and containerization. Must be skilled in scripting languages and monitoring tools to manage complex production environments.

Listed skills

• Microsoft Azure · Preferred
• Kubernetes · Preferred
• Incident Management · Preferred
• CI/CD · Preferred
• Docker · Preferred
• Amazon Web Services · Preferred
• Google Cloud · Preferred
• Terraform · Preferred
• Git · Preferred
• Python · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Python
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Linux/Unix
• Ansible
• SRE Principles
• Incident Management
• Git
• Bash

Job areas

• Technology
• Software
• Engineering
• Consulting