Cloud Engineer – Automation

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, operate, and enhance production-grade automation for Smile Digital Health, its clients, and partners.

• Take ownership of build and release engineering by consolidating Azure DevOps pipeline YAML into reusable templates with change detection and automated quality gates.

• Substitute manual efforts with scheduled, auditable automation for tasks such as patching, certificate and secret rotation, environment scaling, and generating recurring reports.

• Implement GitOps-based continuous delivery featuring automated reconciliation, drift detection, and rollback capabilities.

• Automate the end-to-end provisioning and decommissioning of line-of-business environments across Azure services and applications.

• Automate business continuity and disaster recovery processes through backup validation, restoration, failover, recurring DR drills, and measured RTO/RPO.

• Maintain upgradeable Helm and Terraform infrastructure utilizing reusable charts, configuration validation, versioned modules, and controlled state boundaries.

• Operate and secure in-cluster platform services deployed through Helm, including health probes, replica counts, resource limits, and autoscaling.

• Maintain Terraform configuration.

• Build and sustain Build Agent images.

• Automate policy-as-code, security and IaC scanning, alerts, and dashboards.

• Apply AI-assisted engineering techniques and contribute to AI enablement by creating reusable skills and runbooks.

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to identify, prioritize, and address automation gaps.

• Troubleshoot production and staging issues while documenting automation for operational use.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, and/or platform engineering.

• A minimum of 1-2 years of experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD automation on Microsoft Azure in a production environment.

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Extensive knowledge of Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps pipelines, and GitOps delivery (Argo CD or Flux).

• Strong skills in Terraform, particularly in module design, provider version management, state management, and refactoring.

• Expertise in Helm chart creation and refactoring, Kubernetes, and AKS.

• Familiarity with Azure services such as AKS, Key Vault, Storage, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, networking, and identity.

• Experience with observability as code using Azure Monitor and/or Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.

• Background in automating backup, restoration, and failover processes with measured RTO and RPO.

• Knowledge of agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or similar.

• Experience in running, hardening, and optimizing production Kubernetes workloads.

• Understanding of Kafka operations, including topic and partition design, consumer group sizing, and throughput and latency trade-offs.

• Proficient in Python and Bash scripting.

• Proven track record of replacing manual processes with automated solutions.

• Familiarity with FinOps practices and Azure Cost Management is a plus.

• Experience in regulated environments (healthcare, PHI) is an asset.

• Certifications such as HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Microsoft AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-305, CKA, or CKAD are advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote Work Environment.

• Flexible Time Away From Work Policy, including PTO, Personal and Sick Days.

• Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits.

• RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution.

• Life and Disability Insurance.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning opportunities.

• Super HAPI Fun Club.

• Commitment to workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Interview and workplace accommodations available.