DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior

Assignment: RQ00684 - DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior Requisition: RQ00684 Job Title: DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior for The Cancer Screening Project Client: Ontario Health Start Date: 2026-07-27 End Date: 2027-01-06 Department: Digital Excellence in Health Office Location: 525 University Avenue, Toronto Business Days: 126.00 Location: Up to 5 days onsite (subject to HM's discretion) Public Sector Experience: must

Must Haves:

• 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

Description

• The Cancer Screening Project requires the engagement of a Flextrack Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to support the timely software development, and implementation of secure serverless Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that will enable the Digital Correspondence solution. These APIs will provide the foundational integration layer required to securely store and manage correspondence records, facilitate the transmission of SMS and email notifications, and enable the Digital Correspondence Portal to retrieve, manage, and present correspondence data in a secure and efficient manner. The development activities involve the implementation of cloud-native serverless architecture, integration with enterprise notification services, application of robust authentication and security controls, and adherence to applicable privacy, security, and information management standards.

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: 100 Points

1. Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Automation : 30 Points

• Demonstrated experience managing AWS environments using Cloudformation and CDK
• Ability to script and automate complex infrastructure provisioning.

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

Deliverables

• Deliverables Include (Deliverables resource is responsible for):
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Repositories: Fully automated, parameterized Terraform or CloudFormation scripts for all deployment environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod).
• CI/CD Pipelines: Configured, secured, and operational deployment pipelines with integrated code quality and security scanning.
• Monitoring & Alerting Dashboards: Implementation of operational dashboards, automated alerts, and log aggregation for the serverless architecture.
• Infrastructure Runbooks: Detailed technical documentation outlining deployment procedures, disaster recovery steps, and incident response workflows.

Additional Terms

• The term of this Engagement Assignment is for 126 Business Days, with option to extend 13 Business Days at Agency's discretion. The Engagement Assignment may be extended for unused Business Days at the Agency's discretion.
• The resource will comply with the Agency's policies and procedures.
• The Agency systems cannot be accessed from outside the province of Ontario, and Agency assets including laptops and related equipment cannot be removed from the province of Ontario, without prior written approval from the Agency.
• Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as "Hybrid". The resource under this request will be required to work onsite as per Hiring Manager sole discretion.