Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer

Assignment: RQ10729 - DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior Job Title: Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer Requisition (SS): RQ10729 Start Date: 2026-06-16 Client: Government Services Integration Cluster End Date: 2027-06-15 Office Location: 222 Jarvis St, Toronto Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement # Business Days: 252.00 5 days onsite

Must Have:

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront.
• Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing.
• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for all cloud infrastructure.
• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Service) for infrastructure and application delivery.

Description

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

General Skills:

• Experience in one of the leading cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, etc
• Experience in maintaining complex Linux cloud environments, like CentOS, Ubuntu, or CoreOS, to support modern web technologies: LAMP, MEAN, Drupal and Elasticsearch
• Experience setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Maven and Jenkins or similar tools
• Experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node, etc.
• Experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc. for continuous integration
• Knowledge of container-based virtualization technology like Docker
• Integration experience in building and using APIs
• Experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards and best practices
• Experience in mobile device management for various versions of cellular and tablets

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

1. Cloud Infrastructure & AWS

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM policies, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudFront.
• Architect multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Manage AWS cost optimization strategies including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and rightsizing.
• Implement and maintain CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Organizations SCPs.

2. Infrastructure as Code - Terraform/Terraform Cloud

• Develop, maintain, and refactor Terraform modules and configurations for all cloud infrastructure.
• Manage Terraform Cloud workspaces, remote state backends, variable sets, and team access policies.
• Enforce IaC standards including module versioning, input/output conventions, and documentation.
• Implement drift detection and remediation workflows using Terraform Cloud run tasks and policy-as-code (Sentinel or OPA).
• Lead Terraform code review processes and mentor junior team members on best practices.

3. Configuration Management - Ansible

• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections for server configuration, application deployment, and compliance enforcement.
• Manage Ansible inventories across dynamic cloud environments using AWS dynamic inventory plugins.
• Integrate Ansible automation with CI/CD pipelines for repeatable and auditable deployments.
• Use Ansible Vault for secrets management and always ensure secure handling of credentials.
• Develop idempotent, well-tested automation that reduces manual toil and configuration drift.

4. Container Platform - OpenShift ROSA

• Operate and administer Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including cluster upgrades, node scaling, and add-on management.
• Define and enforce OpenShift RBAC, NetworkPolicies, and SecurityContextConstraints (SCCs).
• Manage Operators, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays for workload deployment on ROSA.
• Ensure cluster hardening against CIS benchmarks and organizational security policies.

5. CI/CD Pipelines

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Service) for infrastructure and application delivery.
• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for declarative, auditable deployments to OpenShift ROSA.
• Integrate security scanning tooling (SAST, container scanning, dependency auditing) into pipeline gates.
• Champion shift-left testing principles, ensuring infrastructure changes are validated before promotion to production.
• Maintain pipeline-as-code standards with versioned, peer-reviewed pipeline definitions.

6. Security & Compliance

• Serve as a key contributor to the team's security posture, embedding security controls throughout the infrastructure and CI/CD lifecycle.
• Implement secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager) and enforce least-privilege access.
• Support vulnerability management processes by triaging findings from infrastructure and container scanning tools.
• Participate in incident response and post-mortem processes, ensuring remediation actions are tracked and resolved.

7. Observability & Reliability

• Build and maintain end-to-end observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch.
• Define and track SLOs and SLIs for critical platform services and workloads.
• Lead on-call incident response for platform-level issues, conducting RCAs and driving permanent fixes.
• Produce and maintain runbooks and architectural decision records (ADRs).