SRE / DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Lead the delivery of dependable, scalable, and mission-critical services.

• Provide guidance to squads on Kubernetes and contemporary deployment methodologies.

• Collaborate with Fitch Ratings Development Squads and Operations to design and enhance service builds and DevOps tools.

• Drive excellence in operational practices.

• Architect and govern GitHub Actions CI/CD, incorporating quality gates, canary and blue-green deployment strategies, as well as AI-assisted redeploy checks.

• Oversee observability in Datadog, which includes SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerting, and Microsoft Teams integrations.

• Minimize incidents through telemetry-driven automation and conduct blameless postmortems.

• Advocate for AI-enabled operations utilizing AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and Model Context Protocol for log analysis, anomaly detection, incident triage, and workflow orchestration.

• Set up adoption guardrails for AI-enabled operations.

• Define and enforce cloud guardrails and security controls, such as SCPs/IAM boundaries, OPA policies, tagging, and centralized logging with AWS Config, CloudTrail, and Security Hub.

• Collaborate with the Security and Risk teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Contract duration of 3–6 months.

• Extensive, hands-on expertise in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering within AWS and Azure environments.

• Proven experience operating Docker and Kubernetes in production settings.

• Highly skilled in administering both Linux and Windows systems.

• Enterprise-level experience supporting IIS/.NET applications and Java Spring Boot services.

• Proficient in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, primarily using GitHub Actions.

• Experience in DevSecOps, integrating security scans, policy-as-code, and compliance gates.

• Scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.

• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, including IAM, secrets management, and container/image scanning.

• Understanding of networking, storage, DNS, and APM/telemetry tools.

• Practical experience with agentic AI for operations is a plus.

• Experience in supporting AI/ML workloads at scale is advantageous.

• Familiarity with OPA policy-as-code and compliance implementation across CIS, NIST, and ISO 27001 is beneficial.

• Experience applying AI in CI/CD, observability, and incident response is an asset.

• Proven hands-on experience in Agile delivery, including stand-ups and sprint ceremonies, is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work opportunities.

• Confidential management of applicant information in accordance with EEO guidelines.