DevOps Cloud Engineer

DevOps Cloud Engineer

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Our client requires a DevOps Engineer to design, build, automate, and support secure AWS cloud environments for cloud-native, serverless APIs supporting digital correspondence, SMS/email notifications, and secure data retrieval. Ideal candidate will focus on Infrastructure as Code, AWS CloudFormation/CDK, CI/CD pipeline engineering, Lambda/API Gateway, cloud security, monitoring, observability, and healthcare API architecture while ensuring privacy, security, and information management compliance.

Work is onsite at client location in Toronto, ON.

Toronto, Ontario (Onsite)

Responsibilities

Duties & Deliverables include:

• 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)
• Deliverables include Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Repositories with Terraform or CloudFormation scripts for all deployment environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod), CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure Runbooks, operational dashboards, automated alerts, and log aggregation for the serverless architecture.

Mandatory Requirements

Mandatory Requirements Include:

• Public Sector experience is a must
• 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

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.

Desirable Requirements

• 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