Senior Cloud Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Implement cloud infrastructure and services utilizing Google Cloud Platform.

• Design, maintain, and oversee production infrastructure operating continuously throughout the year.

• Create secure, scalable, automated, and thoroughly documented systems.

• Educate others to manage operations effectively.

• Work alongside Engineering teams to deploy and maintain customer-facing web applications.

• Guarantee backup functionality and consistency, including restoration processes and disaster recovery plans.

• Offer DBA support, which includes installations, upgrades, database loading, migrations, and testing.

• Diagnose and resolve database and server issues.

• Execute backup and recovery for both local and remote replicated databases.

• Generate and validate data backups, including configuration data in critical environments.

• Convey timelines, service dependencies, resource constraints, and progress updates to key stakeholders.

• Uphold technical infrastructure for business continuity and disaster recovery strategies.

• Plan and coordinate Disaster Recovery drills and tabletop exercises.

• Enhance and refine infrastructure and application performance monitoring and alerting systems.

• Provide platform support through a 24/7 on-call rotation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in the design, implementation, and management of highly available (HA) system architectures.

• More than 7 years of experience in administering and troubleshooting Linux and Windows systems.

• 5+ years of experience with Containerization.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes.

• At least 3 years of Database Administration experience, e.g., PostgreSQL, MSSQL, CloudSQL.

• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure such as GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.

• Proficient in managing large-scale infrastructure using automation tools for provisioning, software deployment, and configuration management, such as Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc.

• Experience managing on-call shifts for mission-critical systems.

• Strong scripting abilities in Bash, Ruby, Python, or similar languages, with an emphasis on automation.

• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and practices.

• Exposure to CI/CD platforms like ArgoCD, Cloud Build, and Cloud Run.

• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog and New Relic.

• Experience with metrics collection and visualization utilizing Prometheus and Grafana.

• Understanding of centralized logging solutions like Loki and Graylog.

• Canadian work experience is not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.

• 6 personal days.

• Meaningful work that has a direct impact on patient care.

• Opportunities for growth with leaders who promote development through mentorship.

• In-person collaboration, connection, and team events when beneficial.

• Accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.