Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud & Microservices

Job Description

Job Description

Role: Senior Dev Ops Engineer - cloud, Microservices

Location: Toronto, ON

Skills: Digital:
Cloud Dev Ops, Microservices

Experience

Required:

8–10 years

Role Description

Hands on Cloud Dev Ops / Microservices Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and observable cloud native platforms and services. You’ll own CI/CD, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, and runtime reliability for microservices partnering closely with software engineering, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver high quality releases with speed and confidence.

• Design, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure (
  AWS, Azure
  ) including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed services.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM, Bicep
  ; enforce Git Ops practices (pull requests, code reviews, change history).

• Build multi-account subscription landing zones, network segmentation, and controls for cost, security, and compliance.

• Optimize cloud spend with right sizing, autoscaling, reserved savings plans, and cost governance dashboards.

• Build robust CI/CD pipelines (
  Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI
  ) with automated build, test, security scans, artifact management, and progressive delivery (blue-green, canary).

• Standardize pipelines as reusable templates, implement trunk-based development, and robust branching strategies.

• Enable automated rollbacks and deployment health checks; integrate quality gates (unit, integration, contract tests).

• Containerize services (
  Docker
  ) and operate them on Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE) or Open Shift
  .

• Manage service discovery, ingress, service mesh (
  Istio, Linkerd
  ), config and secret management, HPA, pod disruption budgets, and node pools.

• Implement microservices best practices (circuit breakers, retries/backoff, idempotency, API gateways, rate limits, event driven patterns such as SQS, SNS, Kafka, Event Hub, Pub Sub).

• Establish end-to-end observability: metrics, logs, traces with Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch, Azure Monitor, ELK, Splunk, Open Telemetry
  .

• Define and track SLI, SLO, SLA; create actionable alerts and on-call runbooks; participate in incident response and post-incident reviews (RCA).

• Conduct load performance testing; remediate hotspots at infrastructure, container, and application layers.

Requirements
Experience (Years): 4-6 Essential

Skills:

• Work with project teams throughout the organization to design, implement, and manage CDN infrastructure using Akamai, to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability for customer facing applications and business processes.
• Handle multiple priorities and assignments with excellence and precision.
• Be a part of a 24/7/365 organization (some after hours support is expected as part of normal on-call rotation).
• Directly support line of business development teams, provide guidance to them on implementation and changes for customer facing applications
• Develop and maintain security protocols and measures to protect CDN infrastructure from cyber threats.
• Monitor and analyze network performance, identifying and resolving issues to optimize content delivery of critical applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate Akamai CDN solutions with existing systems and applications.
• Collaborate with information security teams to implement DDoS protection strategies and other security measures in the CDN.
• Provide technical support and guidance to clients and internal teams regarding CDN and security best practices.
• Work closely with vendor and professional service teams on delivery related activities and strategy.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. OR similar work experience.
• Strong understanding of network protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TCP/IP).
• Proven experience as a CDN Engineer or similar role, with a strong focus on cybersecurity.
• In-depth knowledge of Content Delivery Network technologies, including caching, load balancing, and content optimization.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Experience supporting 24/7/365 customer facing applications at enterprise scale.
• Awareness and experience with cybersecurity tools and practices, such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and encryption.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash) a plus.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CEH) are a plus but not required.