Senior DevOps Engineer

At TELUS, we're using our world-leading technology to enable remarkable human outcomes. The Smart Home+ team is at the forefront of protecting what matters most to Canadians - offering intelligent home security solutions, professional monitoring, and smart home automation that keeps families safe and connected. Learn more about our products at TELUS Smart Home+.

We're building the next generation of smart home technology that serves hundreds of thousands of customers across Canada, and we need exceptional engineers to help us scale.

Position Overview
We're seeking a Senior Dev Ops Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, exceptional Type Script programming capabilities, and strong systems design thinking to join our Smart Home+ Platform Engineering team. In this role, you'll architect, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that powers TELUS Smart Home+'s connected devices, mobile applications, and professional monitoring services serving hundreds of thousands of Canadian homes.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage robust AWS cloud infrastructure for Smart Home+ services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles

Architect multi-region, highly available systems leveraging AWS services (ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, Dynamo

DB, IoT Core, Kinesis etc)

Optimize cloud costs while maintaining the performance, security, and reliability standards required for home security and monitoring services

Implement and maintain container orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes) for Smart Home+ microservices

Design and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing of Smart Home+ applications and infrastructure

Programming & Automation

Develop automation scripts, tools, and frameworks primarily using Type Script and Node.js

Build custom tooling to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency across the Smart Home+ engineering teams

Write clean, maintainable, and standardized Type Script code for infrastructure components (AWS CDK constructs)

Implement infrastructure testing frameworks and validation tools using Type Script testing libraries

Architect solutions for Smart Home+ infrastructure that balance technical debt, time-to-market, and long-term maintainability

Lead technical design reviews and provide guidance on system architecture decisions for connected home devices and monitoring platforms

Design observability and monitoring strategies across distributed IoT and cloud systems

Implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions for critical home security services

Mentor junior engineers and promote Dev Ops best practices across Smart Home+ engineering teams

Collaborate with development, testing, device engineering, product teams to streamline workflows for smart home product delivery

Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for Smart Home+ services, driving root cause analysis

Contribute to technical roadmaps and strategic planning for Smart Home+ platform evolution

Drive adoption of Dev Ops culture and practices across the Smart Home+ organization

Required Qualifications

7+ years of experience in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles

5+ years of hands-on experience architecting and managing AWS infrastructure at scale

Proven track record of designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems, preferably in IoT, connected devices, or consumer technology

Experience in a high-growth technology environment or enterprise-scale organization

Technical Skills
AWS Expertise:

Deep knowledge of AWS core services, multi-account environments, and well-architected framework

Experience with AWS networking (VPC, Load Balancers, etc)

Strong understanding of AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Groups)

Hands-on experience with containerization (EKS/ECS, Kubernetes, Docker)

Experience with AWS IoT services (IoT Core, IoT Green grass, Device Management) preferred

Type Script & Programming:

Strong proficiency in Type Script and Node.js for building infrastructure tools, automation

Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, preferably AWS CDK (Type Script), Cloud Formation

Systems Design:

Deep understanding of distributed systems principles and patterns

Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies

Knowledge of database systems (relational and No

SQL) and data storage strategies for high-volume event data

Understanding of caching strategies, Redis, CDN implementation, and real-time data processing

Experience with event-driven architectures and message queuing systems (SQS, SNS, Event Bridge)

Dev Ops & Tooling:

Expert-level experience with CI/CD tools (AWS Code Pipeline, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI)

Strong understanding of version control strategies

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Cloud Watch (preferred), Datadog, Grafana)

Familiarity with log aggregation and analysis tools (Cloud Watch Logs)

Expert-level knowledge of operating AWS ECS and AWS EKS workloads

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