CI/CD & Release Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Establish and organize the CI/CD function at Booxi by defining standards, documenting insights, and creating an environment conducive to scalability.

• Design GitHub Actions workflows across repositories utilizing reusable workflows and composite actions.

• Enhance build times through techniques like parallelization, Docker layer caching, and selective test execution.

• Safeguard the software supply chain using Workload Identity Federation, secret management, signed images, and vulnerability scanning.

• Substitute manual approvals with automated security and compliance checkpoints.

• Create progressive release strategies (canary, blue/green, and feature flags) on Cloud Run, incorporating automated health checks and telemetry-triggered rollbacks.

• Manage the transition of environments from development to production, including semantic versioning, changelogs, and release verification across microservices.

• Advise teams on zero-downtime schema migrations, trunk-based development, and GitOps workflows.

• Assess and present DORA metrics to both engineers and leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in DevOps, release engineering, or platform engineering within a production SaaS environment.

• Extensive knowledge of GitHub Actions with the capability to troubleshoot slow or unstable pipelines.

• Experience in deploying and managing workloads on GCP, including Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, IAM, Cloud SQL, and MySQL.

• Proficient in Terraform for infrastructure as code.

• Familiarity with Docker.

• Experience in transforming manual or fragile deployments into fully automated pipelines.

• Daily utilization of AI for coding and the ability to articulate its influence on work processes.

• Competence in advocating for platform initiatives to PMs or executives, addressing time-to-market, risk, and cost considerations.

• Ability to devise a clear and comprehensible roadmap.

• French: native or professional proficiency.

• Functional English, both spoken and written (asset).

• Knowledge of GitOps workflows on Kubernetes (ArgoCD, Flux) or database migration automation tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• A people-centric culture emphasizing flexibility, trust, and autonomy.

• Genuine focus on work-life balance.

• Daily engagement with AI technology.

• Generous vacation policy (minimum of 4 weeks per year).

• Company-wide shutdown from December 25 to January 1.

• 2 personal days plus unlimited sick leave.

• Group health insurance coverage.

• $300 allowance for home office setup.

• Flexible working hours and options for remote work.